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I'm also a member of a tech cooperative in the UK - indeed I've been part of two: - Outlandish - https://outlandish.com/ - Common Knowledge (which I founded) - https://commonknowledge.coop/

I was also at the founding of CoTech (a UK network of tech cooperatives). Common Knowledge are a member.

Happy to answer any questions here or hit me up at alex at commonknowledge.coop for anything further.

In the UK the process of setting up a simple co-operative takes about a month. It's filling in a set of forms on top of a normal company registration and applying to Co-operatives UK for accreditation. Basically no sweat.