Budget 2026
Andrew Escobar (Andres) · social.coop Finance Working Group Sun 17 May 2026 9:59PMPublicSeen by 6Note: This is a cross-posted version of Budget 2026. It was created and approved by the Organizing Circle based on Budget 2025. Member and contribution were projected by Finance Working Group.
All values are in GBP (Great Britain Pounds).
This format aligns with how Open Collective reports financial data: Transaction Reports
Projected Budget
Member contributions are projected to decline in 2026.
As of 2026-04-16 there were 403 active contributions:
average 30.78 GBP per year
median 12.00 GBP per year
Actual 2025 |
Budget 2026 |
|
|---|---|---|
Contributions 1 |
13,208 |
13,001 |
Expenses |
–11287 |
–11,533 |
Payment Processor Fees |
–874 |
–820 |
Outgoing Contributions |
||
Meet.coop 2 |
–1080 |
–1080 |
Platform 6 3 |
–600 |
–600 |
Net Change |
–633 |
–1031 |
Projection based on data from 2026-04-01
Social.coop is working with Meet.coop to resume our services; as a result, we may spend less than this budgeted amount in 2026.
Platform 6 Development Co-operative is our fiscal host; we contribute towards administrative costs.
Projected Balance
2025 |
2026 |
|
|---|---|---|
Starting balance |
27,249.00 |
29,495.47 |
Net change: Budget 2025 |
2,246.47 |
–2,878.83 |
Net change: Budget 2026 |
–1,031.00 |
|
Ending balance |
29,495.47 |
28,463.44 |
Projected Expenses
Actual 2025 |
Budget 2026 |
|
|---|---|---|
Social.coop |
||
Loomio subscription |
–373.39 |
–375 |
May First membership 1 |
0.00 |
–250 |
Finance Working Group |
||
Community Contributions |
–3605.04 |
–4000 |
Stipends |
–1000 |
–1000 |
Legal Working Group |
||
Stipends 2 |
–1000 |
|
Technology Working Group |
||
Domain |
–132.62 |
–100 |
Hosting 3 |
–824.07 |
–1808 |
Stipends |
–1000 |
–1000 |
Community Working Group |
||
Stipends |
–1,731.74 |
–1000 |
Organizing Circle |
||
Stipends |
–857.15 |
–1000 |
Total |
–11,286.70 |
–11,533 |
May First membership fees (250 USD) were mistakenly reimbursed twice (500 USD total) and accounted for in 2024.
Legal Working Group was established in late 2025.
Social.coop continues to maintain a credit balance with Hetzner (a hosting service) to cover monthly invoices, avoid credit card payment issues, and reduce administrative work.
Josh DavisMon 18 May 2026 12:30PM
Looks good to me. We seem to be in an overall good place. Growth may have leveled out, but I don't think that's a problem.
Graham ·Mon 18 May 2026 8:53AM
Hi. Interested to hear that contributions are expected to decline in 2026. What's driving that? Would it be helpful to do some work on recruitment?