Care Together Program Director Gillian McFee recently worked with the Barcaldine 60 & Better Program’s Seniors Group in Longreach and got out and about to explore the town in between workshops and meetings with local community members and organisations.

“The need is urgent for flexible models of care that are community-owned and controlled by community.” – Melina Morrison , CEO BCCM

Find out more about the #CareTogether program and our projects at caretogether.coop

Our Co-op Development Advisers, Clare Fountain and Antony McMullen, recently visited KCLC in Logan for 2 days of workshops and planning sessions, focusing on co-op business models, community engagement strategies, and investment frameworks to lay the groundwork for their project.

Co-ops and mutuals can have different types of members.

“Making it co-operative is a journey, and it's something that people have to do together and have to learn about.” – Peter Hunt, Co-op Developer, Care Together. Find out more about the Care Together program and our projects at caretogether.coop
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8 in 10 Aussies are members of at least one co-op or mutual. These include organisations providing social care (aged care and disability services, primary health care, housing for health key workers and people living with disability, veterans’ care and Indigenous services).

Watch Employee Ownership Australia's webinar on 'Canada to dramatically increase its number of employee-owned companies with new legislation, with Jon Shell from Social Capital Partners in Canada'
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Care Together's Gillian McFee, Peter Hunt, and Nick Hislop visited Moruya this week to engage with a group of independent workers. This group has come together to explore the feasibility of establishing a #cooperative with the support of #CareTogether and the BCCM.

“You can never let go of that, co-operative spirit and the seven co-operative principles as a co-op gets bigger and becomes quite a prestigious board to be on. You've got to be really careful that all the new people have the co-op DNA.” - Michael Pilbrow, Program Manager

Did you know that #coops and #mutuals are designed around seven international #CooperativePrinciples , including open and voluntary membership and democratic member control, empowering their members to be active participants in the enterprise?
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“There is this massive world of successful co-operatives, and we know that the co-op model is not only viable but sustainable in solving community challenges and issues, by bringing people together.”
Clare Fountain, Co-op Development Adviser, Care Together caretogether.coop

The BCCM is working with communities around Australia, through our Bunya grants and our caretogetherprogram, to help people form #coops and #mutuals as alternative business models.

Congratulations to Equal Care Co-op, the UK’s first platform-based social care and support co-operative! We are looking forward to seeing the documentary in 2025!

Social care co-operatives and mutuals deliver social care through co-operative or mutual structures. Discover how #socialcare #cooperatives and #mutuals can help, their benefits and when are social care co-ops and mutuals the right models.
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Care Together's Gillian McFee (Program Director) and Dr Peter Westoby (he/him) (Co-op Development Adviser) recently met with local stakeholders in Wagin, Western Australia to explore how co-operative care models could support their community. #CareTogether #Wagin

Explore the co-op development process and some of our Care Together projects. Join us for the Care Together Program’s Social Care Community of Practice meeting on Thursday, 22 February, from 9:30 – 11:30 am AEDT.

Register online to attend.

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The Care Together Program is supporting the Summer Foundation to discover a new approach to sharing support for people with disability in co-located Specialist Disability Accommodation.
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Join us for our Care Together Program’s Social Care Community of Practice meeting on Thursday, 22 February, from 9:30 – 11:30 am AEDT. Explore the co-op development process and some of our Care Together projects. Register online to attend.

caretogether.coop/events-educati…

The BCCM's 'Action to Empower' report provides info on how #cooperative and #mutual business models can increase diversity and choice in care services in Australia with positive outcomes for accountability, innovation, quality and productivity. bccm.coop/campaign/socia…

“We envisage a future where all Australians can access high-quality, appropriate and dignified care, delivered by empowered care professionals.” – Care Together Program