Co-operation: between users and workers
We would like to invite you to our third Sharing Care webinar this time looking at engagement and different roles of varied member constituencies.
The UK co-operative and mutual movement is best known for organisations established by customers – retail co-operative societies and building societies – although there is also a strong tradition of worker and producer co-operatives. More recently there is growing interest in organisations which recognise and accommodate more than one constituency of interest – most commonly users of a service, and employees or workers.
The Co-operative Movement had started to develop its own approach to this through multi-stakeholder co-operatives. A radically different approach was introduced in 2003 through legislation for NHS Foundation Trusts, which has given rise to another possible approach, with ownership and governance designed around having two or more categories of members.
This webinar will explore these different approaches in (and beyond) the context of care co-ops, the impact they can have on commitment and engagement of members as well as quality of services.
Cliff Mills is a co-operative lawyer who, as well as writing individual and model constitutions for a range of co-operative and member-based organisations, established a number of the first three waves of NHS Foundation Trusts. He has subsequently used the learning from that to develop user and worker-based ownership and governance arrangements in other sectors.
It would be great if you can join us on Thursday 25th March 7pm to 8pm (the session will open at 6.45pm so that we can start on time).
We'll run the webinar on Zoom. Click on the 'Register' button to book your digital seat.
Looking forward to seeing many of you there!
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This webinar is delivered as part of our Sharing Care project which is generously supported by Power to Change to allow us to bring together learning we have gained while setting up a care co-op, share it with others and support those who might be interested in setting up a care co-op in their own communities.
We’re ready to offer care & support in Colne Valley - help us spread the word! Have a look at our website.
And make sure you have a browse through our Sharing Care project website with a toolkit which looks at how to set up a care co-op & lists other things we are doing during the first half of 2021.