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It is important to monitor and evaluate your progress, measure your impact and if necessary further develop your activities as a result.
Most of the information in this toolkit relates to the things you need to do when setting up your food co-op, however, once it’s up and running there is still a lot of work to do to ensure it is sustainable in the long term.
Sustainability is all about ensuring that your food co-op is able to keep running. This is highly dependent on economic factors i.e. can the food co-op bring in enough income to cover its running costs. It is therefore important to monitor the success of your food co-op by keeping a record of customer numbers and sales of produce.
The long term success of your food co-op also relates to social factors, such as whether the volunteers involved are happy, in some cases it is a good idea to offer volunteers training to enable them to feel more confident in fulfilling their roles.
It is very important to know whether the food co-op meets customers and members' needs, for example is it on at a convenient time? It is therefore a good idea to survey both customers and volunteers to find out what they think.
You need to measure the impact of your food co-op's activities to know how successful it has been in achieving its objectives. Here are some examples of what you can measure:
To find more useful food co-op related information visit our homepage
Food Co-ops toolkit: The Food Co-ops Toolkit will give you all the information you need to set up your own food co-op.
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