 The Worker Cooperative Weekend is a gathering of worker cooperatives from all over the UK to share experience, inspiration, to have a lot of fun. It's a kind of well-organised gathering designed to be as open and accessible as possible. Us as a group we've had a great weekend and also personally I've had a really, really good experience. It's meeting other people who are in co-ops who are experiencing the same issues because when you're in your own sort of workspace you think it's just happening to you. It was a great chance to catch up with other co-ops, see what we are all up to, see our problems, discuss about them and try to find a common solution. It's the first time I've come to this weekend and it's been great for actually meeting other people in co-ops because I think it's really important that co-ops work together and collaborate and cooperate and that it's only going to happen if people know each other and if not. Bringing everybody together and realising that there are so many people who are into this way of working is very, very positive. The best things about these kinds of gatherings is always just sort of feeling part of the movement. Everyone's sound, is that good or not, can you? The food gets better and better every year and we always manage to have the campfire somehow and there's a really good buzz around and I particularly, this year I particularly like the fact that there are more and more young people as well but new people, new ideas and really fresh new ideas as well, it's great. I'm really looking forward to just bring back what I've learnt to my co-op about facilitation, integrating politics into our associations and definitely about communicating that better, especially working on our emergency and how we can actually influence our community because I think that is so key and I think from hearing everyone around during the weekend we need to just shout out a bit more about the great stuff we're doing. It's kind of re-energised me and I think others into really, really making the effort to make a co-op work as well as we can. And bye bye.