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Read more about who we are and how we are structured.
Attend one of our open online meetings.
Join the Cooperation Birmingham public forum to get involved or join the co-op via our OpenCollective.
Current Projects
Punch Up Community Gym
Punch Up is a co-operative sports and social organisation to enable positive connections based around physical activity. Currently there are weekly martial classes.
0121 Do One – radical announcements chat
0121 Do One is a announcements only signal chat, to which people and groups can submit their events, demos, gardening days, punk shows, fundraising parties, court support dates etc.
Get your banners, dancing shoes, spray cans and seed packs ready!
Please share the group with your friends so we can have better connected radical communities.
To submit an event, please DM the admin account
La lucha sigue 🤜🤛
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Solidarity Funds
We have used our financial infrastructure to carry out fundraising for comrades facing state repression for taking action here in the UK to prevent the ongoing genocide in Palestine. We have collected and distributed money to pay for travel expenses for court dates and to visit imprisoned friends.
https://opencollective.com/cooperation-birmingham/projects/solidarity-fund-for-ash
🍉🍉Free Palestine🍉🍉
Equaliser Soundsystem Co-op
Equaliser is a co-op for DJs, musicians and party hosts to access high fidelity audio equipment to help build dancefloor counterculture.
Since We Last Met
Birmingham’s thrice yearly Resistance Roundup and info-swap meal.
We come together to share recent stories and honor the work of social movements here at home and around the world.
There tends to be two parts to the event, one local and one global under two main categories : HGC (Healing, Growing, Connecting), and Le Smash (successful actions against genocide, oppression, empire and ecocide.)
Example agenda:
- Introductions.
- Local and national roundup and discussion.
- Community meal, all donations to court support funds in the community. For the last 15 minutes of lunch people will be invited to give 1 minute shoutouts about any events, demos, groups etc coming up.
- Global resistance roundup and discussion.
- Ending ceremony: take candles out to the garden, and do a go round where everyone can say who they are remembering with their candle, and what they are thankful for.
Stirchley Co-operative Development
Many Co-operation Birmingham went on to work on the SCD project. Though not an official project of Co-op Brum, it’s certainly a sister project and will serve as a good home space for future Co-op Brum endeavors.
It’s going to be a 40 flat housing co-operative with space for worker co-ops Loaf, Artefact and the Birmingham Bike Foundry. Construction will hopefully be completed around summer 2025.
Previous Projects
Solidarity Kitchen
During the worst period of the COVID-19 pandemic, we ran a food programme to provide nutritious meals to those in need. We delivered over 15,000 meals by foot, bike and car entirely organised by volunteers and funded by the people.
We ran a kitchen out of the Warehouse Cafe and an advanced logistics operation. This was all done following the appropriate safety procedures which meant we have zero known COVID-19 infections during our operations at a time when the government was nothing to protect the people.
See this article for more.
Co-op Cycle Birmingham
We attempted to form a new co-operative courier ad logistics service using the Co-op Cycle platform. Ultimately this wasn’t sustainable for that collective at that time.
Co-op Brum Fest
A one day festival where we put on a street party bringing together many of our collectives and projects and had a fun day of sports and hanging out in the communal gardens.