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Page: Food hygiene

Once you have registered as a food business, then the local environmental health department may come and inspect your premises to check on food hygiene.
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Page: Constitution

Ideally, a food co-op should have a governing document or constitution, giving details of why the organisation exists, what it is there to do, how it is going to do it and how it is organised.
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Page: Avoiding problems

How to avoid typical governance problems
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Page: Membership

Many food co-ops require everyone who wants to buy food there to become a member and pay a nominal fee to join before they can start shopping.
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Page: Committee

In a small food co-op or buying club a separate committee may not be necessary as decisions can be taken by the whole group.
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Page: Storage

If you are running several outlets and need to store produce from one day to the next you will need to ensure you are have proper storage.
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Page: Training

Running a food co-op requires many different skills. To help build these skills in your team, you may wish to arrange training for the people involved, including volunteers, paid staff and committee members.
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Page: Informal learning

Sharing skills informally can be useful, whether as a group, in a one-to-one session, or simply 'learning on the job'.
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Page: Designing your own training course

You may feel that it is more appropriate or convenient to run training yourself, to meet the needs of your staff and volunteers.
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Page: Volunteer training

There are some issues you need to consider when training volunteers. They may work for you for just a few hours per week and are likely to have other commitments, so you may find it hard to get people to come to training courses, especially if there are several sessions.
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