Tools for people who are organising together

Co-ops, unions, tenant groups, mutual aid networks, campaigners, parish and community groups. Everything here is free, in plain English, and yours to copy, adapt and pass on. No sign-up. No paywall. No tracking.

Most of what stops small groups getting things done is not money. It is paperwork: the model rules nobody has time to read, the rent-increase letter nobody knows how to word, the pricing decision nobody wants to make alone. These tools exist to close that gap.

Start here

• Starting a farm co-op or a CSA Available Ireland. What each legal structure actually costs, how CSAs are really priced, what grants exist, and the four questions that decide whether scheme money is open to your holding at all. Read the farm co-op and CSA guide.
• Who owns the land? Available Four ways to share ground between people — undivided shares, split sites, a body that owns it, or long leases — and the real tax bill on each. Includes what it costs to gift a site to someone who is not family. Read the land-sharing guide.
• Starting a worker co-op Available The decisions you must make before you write anything down, the small set of documents that follow from them, and what registration costs. Read the worker co-op guide.
• Running a pay-what-you-can shop Available Sliding-scale pricing that works, and the three ways it goes wrong: how to set the tiers, and what to say on the page. Read the pay-what-you-can guide.

All the tools

Money, grants and schemes

• Farm scheme eligibility: the four questions Available The questions that decide whether farm-scheme money is open to a holding at all — hectares, herd number, entitlements, and what you produce. Answer them in five minutes before you plan anything. Read the eligibility check.
• Before you apply: the grant pre-check Available The questions every rural funder asks before you write an application — applicant, match funding, planning evidence, procurement, timelines. Fill it in before you ring your Local Action Group. Read the grant pre-check.
• What it costs to register a co-op or a company Available Ireland. Plain fee tables for the co-operative route and the company limited by guarantee route, what each one files every year, and why the audit is the cost people forget. Read the registration fee tables.
• Who owns the farm business? Available A co-operative, a CSA and a farm partnership are three different things that people constantly confuse — and the difference changes what you can claim. Read the ownership explainer.

Land and shared ownership

• Co-ownership agreement: template Available A fill-in agreement for people owning shares in the same piece of land: who may sell and to whom, how the price is set, what happens on death, and how a deadlock breaks. Read the co-ownership template.
• Long site lease: template Available A 99-year ground lease for a site on someone else's land — rent, term, building obligations, repairs, insurance, exit and disputes. The cheaper alternative to giving land away, and the clauses that actually get used. Read the site lease template.
• What Cloughjordan teaches you about shared land Available Ireland's first ecovillage: the structure, the money, the ten-year timeline, and the common-land argument that outlasted the building work. Read it before you commit. Read the Cloughjordan case study.

Running the group

• CSA members' agreement Available A fill-in-the-blanks agreement for a community supported agriculture scheme: what a share buys, the season, collection, how risk is shared, and how people leave without wrecking the year. Read the CSA members' agreement.
• Digital hygiene for organisers Available A short, practical checklist for a group that handles other people's information — messaging, devices, shared accounts, and what to do if something leaks. Read the digital hygiene checklist.
• Commons licences, explained Available What it actually means to share your work and still keep it yours: licences versus assignment, permissive versus share-alike, and how to choose one in five minutes. Read the commons licences explainer.

In preparation

• Tenant groups: tracking rent increases In progress How to record what is happening across a building so that one household's problem becomes evidence a group can use.
• Co-op governance pack In progress Bylaws, one-member-one-vote voting flows, a dispute process and officer roles — plain templates rather than legal prose.
• Community energy co-op dashboard In progress Tracking what each member generates and what each member uses, for a community energy co-operative.

Why free

Because a co-op that has not started yet has no money, and a tenant group facing eviction should not be paying a subscription to organise. These are cheap for us to produce and genuinely useful to you, so they are given away. If something here helps, pass it to another group — that is the whole distribution plan.

Who makes this

A small studio in the north-west of Ireland that builds software and runs its own operations on tools like these. Same people, same methods, no venture capital and nothing skimming a percentage off anybody's work.

Related projects

• Growers' Collective Prototype An open-source platform for a direct farm-to-consumer co-operative: produce listings, orders and payments. It is a working prototype rather than a live service, and its business plan and contributing guide are published in five languages. Growers' Collective on GitHub.
• Anticlamping Campaign A driver's-rights campaign about private clamping in Ireland: which companies operate, what the law says, and how the appeals process works. It argues that you are entitled to remove a clamp from your own car — read its own account of the legal position before acting on that, and read it before you pay a release fee. Visit anticlamping.com.

Get in touch

If a document here is wrong for your country, or a tool is missing and you need it, say so and it will be written. Suggestions and corrections are the point: [email protected].