Membership and Supporter Subscriptions

Click this link for the latest information on supporter subscriptions and membership.

Our supporters and members share a mission to apply the FairShares Model to enterprise education and co-operative development. 

Becoming a Supporter

We define supporters as people who have joined our Loomio Group (https://fairshares.loomio.org) or have taken out an annual subscription to help with the costs of providing our products and services ‘free at the point of use’.

Supporters can request copies of FairShares diagnostics that they can adapt and use in their work and request discounted certificates when they pass a course hosted by the FairShares Institute for Cooperative Social Entrepreneurship at Sheffield Hallam University.

If you want to become a supporter, choose the subscription you want below (requires a PayPal account).

Annual Subscriptions



Becoming a Member

Our membership system gives recognition to those creating and using FairShares IP to advance cooperative social entrepreneurship. Membership cannot be bought – it is free of charge to anyone who makes a “lasting and substantial contribution to the development or dissemination of the FairShares Model”.

Members are granted a BY-SA Creative Commons licence to FairShares IP that has a BY-NC-SA licence.  This grants permission to use this IP for commercial gain and in commercial settings.

There are automatic qualifying contributions for membership. You will meet the conditions if you:

    • Have created a FairShares enterprise using FairShares Association’s ‘model rules‘;
    • Have embedded materials about the FairShares Model in a course curriculum;
    • Have signed an agreement or organised a project with Social Enterprise International to promote FairShares;
    • Are a FairShares Certified Practitioner, Trainer, Social Auditor or Professional;
    • Are a trainer in an approved FairShares Lab, or a partner in the FairShares Lab project (Erasmus+)
    • Have made any other ‘substantial and lasting contribution’ to the development of the FairShares Model or FairShares Association.

 

To apply for Labour or User membership, click the ‘Apply Now’ button:

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If you have any questions, email caroline@fairshares.coop.

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