16 June 2011

Worker co-operative election results 2011

Thank you for all those members voting, we can now publish the results of the worker co-operative council elections 2011. The results are:

Candidate
Organisation
No of votes
Britta Werner
Unicorn Grocery
237
Richard Crook
Essential Trading Co-operative
203
Edward Russell
Co-operative Web
175
Athene Ellana Richford
GreenCity Wholefoods
121
Steven Glynn
Sustainable Change Cooperative
114
M J Ray
Turo Technology LLP
64

Voter turn-out was 21% and I would like to congratulate Britta and Ed for being re-elected and Richard and Athene who will be new members of the Council.  They will join members not up for election this year:

Alison Banton, Dulas
Bob Cannell, Suma Wholefoods
Sion Whellens, Calverts

The next council meeting will take place on Friday 25th June at Congress in Birmingham. So if you would like to talk to your new and existing representatives please come along to Congress and Co-operatives UK's AGM.