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The 2006 End of Year Experimental Workshop

Sunday November 22nd, 2pm-5pm The Room, 33 Holcombe Road, N17 9AS(~5-10 min walk from Tottenham…

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What is a savings club?

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Interview: Toby’s Oddcast

I was recently interviewed by the lovely Toby. We covered my feelings about the political…

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The boat

I commissioned the boat to be built in 2020. The steel hull was delivered in…

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Some cool orchids

The Hebridean March Orchid in North Uist. I found a colony by a small lake…

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Kin on social media

If you live in Haringey, please join the Co-operation in Haringey team. Send a DM. If you are interested in the idea and think you could get a group together where you are, let’s talk. Networks that create value for ordinary people, across divides, rooted in a place, have power. Food co-op model & resources:…
If savings clubs seem new and strange that's only to you. They've existed for thousands of years and only disappeared in the last hundred in places like Europe and North America. Not having them is making communities poorer and less resilient while helping to keep individuals isolated. Kin Cooperative was founded to change this as…
Behind the curtain. This is how Kin works as a tool for communities to pool money together. It's super simple and we love coming up with new features. DMs are open for suggestions. Please share this far and wide with community organisers. https://kin.coop
Didlum was a type of savings club widespread throughout the UK until the 1950s. Etymology: “diddle them” – from the fear that someone could run off with all the money. But by all accounts this almost never happened or they wouldn’t have been so common. Sources: > Avram Taylor, Working Class Credit and Community since…
Community saving, literally. Your money is always working. But who for? Is it working for your community (and you) or against it? Savings clubs are used by people all over the world. They've existed for thousands of years and can be a more efficient way to manage local resources than only using banks. Kin is…
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