Update from the 2022 Edinburgh gathering
An update from the Students for Cooperation national gathering held in Edinburgh in April 2022.
SfC AGM: 18th May 2022 @ 6.30pm
The Students for Cooperation 2022 Annual General Meeting will be taking place at 6.30 pm on the 18th of May 2022 via Zoom.
2nd Mar: Online student co-op get together
We’ll be hosting an online co-op get together at 6pm on Weds 2nd March 2022. It’ll be a relatively casual affair bringing together student co-operators from across the movement (food co-ops, housing co-ops etc.) to hear about one another’s work, ask for advice, share ideas and feed into the planning of the national gathering in …
Student co-operative spring gathering in Edinburgh
The first national student co-operative gathering in three years will be taking place in Edinburgh from the 1st-3rd April. Join us in Edinburgh for a weekend of training, workshops, brainstorming and a general meeting. Aimed at student co-operators and those interested in the co-operative movement. All are welcome. Register here: https://nextcloud.eshc.coop/apps/forms/3RZxaK4QTK65xzxt Preliminary schedule as follows: …
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Get your free @students.coop email and .students.coop website!
At long last, we can now offer co-ops who are members of Students for Cooperation free email and web hosting with @students.coop email addresses and .student.coop websites! Eg. [email protected] and hedgehog.students.coop. Inboxes can be accessed via webmail (Roundcube and Horde), as well as IMAP and POP so you can access it via Outlook, Thunderbird etc. …
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students.coop relaunches
The old students.coop website was horrifically out of date and was developing some unhealthy glitches so we decided to start anew. The former front page was very dependent on news articles and blog posts, which we don’t produce enough of! So on the new front page, we are going to go first and foremost with …
Good communication
Improving our communication In this section, we’ll explore what we can do to minimise conflict with others and deal with it effectively before it escalates. We will be looking at tools and skills to improve communication that will help to de-escalate a conflict. Conflict in the early stages can be de-escalated by rebuilding connection and …
Student Co-op Homes launches £2m share issue
A pioneering new federation of student housing co-operatives, Student Co-op Homes, has been launched. Using a community share offer, SCH hopes to raise up to £2,000,000 to purchase properties across Britain to be leased to student housing co-ops. Individuals, fellow co-ops, and like-minded organisations can support the campaign by purchasing shares in Student Co-op Homes …
Edinburgh Spring Gathering 2019
We are happy to announce our next Co-operative Student Gathering which will be held on February 2-3 2019. Join us in Edinburgh for a weekend of training, workshops, brainstorming and a general meeting. Aimed at young co-operators or those interested in growing the UK co-op movement: all welcome. Register your interest here: https://goo.gl/forms/dc4KafxJtX4y0yfj1 Follow our Facebook …
Edinburgh Autumn Conference 28-30 Oct 2016
28-30th October 2016, Venue TBC, Edinburgh Join us for our autumn conference in arguably the finest city in the world, Edinburgh! The weekend will include workshops, talks, training, organising, discussions, socials, visits to local co-ops, and more! All are welcome to attend, irrespective of whether you are involved in a student co-operative or just interested …