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A new generation

SF agreed £2,000 to fully fund two places for worker cooperators on the Barefoot programme, to give them grounding and training to become co-op organisers and business advisors themselves. The programme takes on 15 people in each cohort, and will run for six months starting in September 2025.
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Worker takeover bid

£5,000 was unanimously voted by Solidfund members to support a workers' bid to take over 13th Note, Glasgow's popular vegan restaurant and grassroots music venue that has hosted gigs by the likes of Idlewild, Belle & Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand.
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Hemp products for the people

Solidfund members approved a £10,000 distribution to Hempen, a worker cooperative based in Oxfordshire whose mission is to grow and cultivate UK based organic hemp "for the health of the people, rural communities and the land."
Yalla members

Hope beyond borders

SF agreed to donate £4,000 to the Gaza Crisis Fund set up by Yalla, a transnational worker co-op based in Palestine. During the emergency and invasion, the co-op's focus shifted from delivering projects to supporting worker members surviving in refuge, and helping rebuild their lives when the war ends.
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Conflict resource

Fund members voted £2,775 to update and secure Kate Whittle's classic guide on practical governance in cooperatives, 'From Conflict to Cooperation'. Originally published in print only, it has been comprehensively revised.
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We Rise Up!

SF members voted to subscribe €5,000 for co-op shares in GFF (Ex-GKN for Future) shares, to support workers at the former GKN automotive drivetrain factory near Florence to take control and convert the plant to socially useful production.
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The coolest teachers worker co-op in the world

Members debated and approved a £5,000 distribution to MyCool Class, to help with the growing pains of recruiting new teachers and students to the world's first international platform learning workers' co-op.
Selgars Mill

Creating a new co-op learning and events space

Members voted £7,000 towards startup costs for Selgars Mill in Devon - the first residential events and organising space for co-ops in the UK since the Co-operative College sold Stanford Hall more than twenty years ago.
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Solidfund is international

Solidfund members supported and helped organise Cooperation Jackson's UK speaking tour in the spring, and voted money towards startup costs for a new All-Ireland solidarity economy network.
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SolidFund backs Co-op Camp

SolidFund members voted to underwrite the costs of running this year's Co-op Camp at the Green Gathering Festival.