Circle Call 2025-07-30

General Information

Wednesday 30th July 2025 @4pm Discourse thread for the meeting

Video Call Link

https://de.meet.coop/chr-mfa-bze-hdu

Agenda

• Appoint facilitator and note taker
• Check forum thread and add all the discussion points
• Check parked agenda points and review actions from previous meeting (June Circle Call)
• Proposal for Coops UK £5k

Minutes

*** Fund update

Chris (Go Free Range) gave an update on the state of the CoTech
fund. We've just paid for the rebranding work leaving just enough to
keep the Unity Trust bank account for 6 months (covering the £6/month
service charge).

There's currently no plan to top up the account with member
subs. Richard (Agile) and Chris (Go Free Range) are going to meet to
work out a proposal that hopefully we can pass before.

*** Autumn Gathering

Mikaela (Agile) gave an update on the gathering in October. Currently
planned to be on Friday 3rd October 2025 in Oxford.

*** Proposal

Natasha (Outlandish) brought the following proposal:

https://community.coops.tech/t/seeking-approval-for-coops-uk-5k-proposal-input-needed-circle-discussion/4469

**** Clarifying questions

- Are workers.coop involved?

  No, aside from our connection via Richard (Agile) who serves on their board.

- Could money help fund event?

  Not within this proposal

- Could we leverage workers.coop to extend what can be done by Natasha, given we are all contributing

  Natasha thinks they won't have capacity or money to help. But perhaps Solidfund is an avenue.

- Could this be considered "core funding" and mean co-ops uk can't fund it?

  These activities are very similar to what they suggested we do with
  the money, so Natasha thinks it should be acceptable.

- Are we worried that this will be unfair that Natasha gets paid when others don't?

  We had a round on this during the call and it seemed generally that
  people were happy that Natashsa proposed it and delivers on it.

- Any sense that we should use this money to back pay for voluntary
  work that has happened in CoTech over time?

  We don't think so. Some sense that we need to

**** Critical concerns / reactions

- Generally very positive
- Talk about how to make sure we do more of this in the future after this work concludes

**** Outcome

Proposal passed.

Natasha will take the proposal to Coops UK