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Come to our Launch!
You’re invited to our official launch event! We look forward to meeting you. Come along and hear about our vision, where we are up to, and whathelp we need to set up our first offer (to buy the Hub). You can also buy a founding member t-shirt for $20/$15. Members and non-members are welcome, but…
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We’ve formed!
Last night we became an official co-op that can take members (we are 16 strong tonight!). Come join us as a foundation member! Full Membership $40 per year Concession/Strapped/Under 18 $20 per year Outside investors/speculators/multi-nationals extracting profit from our communities through real estate, driving prices up and low-income residents, service workers, local enterprises and our…
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Formation Meeting next Thursday
Castlemaine Community Investment Co-operative is officially forming! When: Thursday 1 February, 5:30pm. Where: 16A Lyttleton St Castlemaine. The Formation Meeting is the final step in becoming registered after the name and rules were approved by Consumer Affairs earlier this month. After this meeting we will be able to open a bank account, sign-up members, and…
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Next steps
Support is steadily building after last month’s Town Hall Meeting and Expression of Interest process. Nearly fifty local residents are already keen to become founding members of the Castlemaine Community Co-operative. Raising enough money to purchase the Hub may be within our collective grasp! It’s clear that many people wish to support the project but…
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Questions & Answers
We’ve been overwhelmed with the responses received so far via our Expression of Interest Form. Many responses have made useful comments or raised important questions. This post is to address some of the questions raised, both in those responses and at last Wednesday’s Town Hall meeting. We’re still receiving Expression of Interest responses until Sunday,…
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Town Hall Meeting
We are very excited by the response at our Town Hall meeting last night. Around fifty interested residents turned out to discuss the proposed Community Co-operative and the purchase of the Hub building. A number of insightful questions were asked, and the Expression of Interest results have started flowing in. We’re preparing some Questions and…
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Save The Hub! Castlemaine residents forming a co-operative
Local residents are banding together to form the Castlemaine Community Co-operative. A public meeting will be held at the Castlemaine Town Hall on Wednesday 13 September from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.