Budget 2025
Andrew Escobar (Andres) · social.coop Finance Working Group
Wed 5 Nov 2025 3:12PM
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Finance Working Group (FWG) shared the following deliverables in July to meet Organizing Circle (OC) policy:
- 2024: budget vs. actual
- 2025: base operations budget
Although all “core” and committed expenses for the year had already been paid without a budget, FWG beleived we needed clear approval for stipends and community contributions. Budget 2025:
- mirrors the member-approved Budget 2024;
- acknowledges the expenses and contributions that had already been approved and payed without a budget; and
- supports the OC with its stated responsibility to provide financial oversight.
Social.coop Budget 2025
Note: This cash-basis accounting format aligns with how Open Collective displays financial data in our Transaction Reports.
| Budgeted Transactions | Amount in GBP |
|---|---|
| Contributions | 14,250 |
| Payment Processor Fees | –962 |
| Outgoing Contributions | |
| Meet.coop membership | –1,080 |
| Platform 6 fiscal hosting | –600 |
| Expenses | –10,931 |
| End of Year Balance | Amount in GBP |
|---|---|
| Starting balance | 27,249 |
| Net change | +677 |
| Ending balance | 27,926 |
| Budgeted Expenses | Amount in GBP |
|---|---|
| Loomio subscription | –373.39 |
| May First membership | –250.00 |
| Finance Working Group | |
| Community Contributions 2024 | –500.00 |
| Community Contributions 2025 | –3,500.00 |
| Stipends | –1,000.00 |
| Technology Working Group | |
| Domain | –132.62 |
| Hosting | –1,000.00 |
| Stipends | –1,000.00 |
| Community Working Group | |
| Stipends 2024 | –430.24 |
| Stipends 2025 | –1,000.00 |
| Organizing Circle | |
| Stipends 2024 | –745.11 |
| Stipends 2025 | –1,000.00 |
Caitlin Waddick, FWG/OC Wed 3 Dec 2025 10:17PM
For redundancy, here is a link to the Fall 2025 discussion of the 2025 budget, which is intended for "sense making" to plan for the 2026 budget (as the members change on working groups and the Organizing Circle): https://www.loomio.com/p/EYwd7onD/help-social-coop-make-sense-of-the-proposed-2026-budget-what-can-we-do-together-
Caitlin Waddick, FWG/OC · Thu 20 Nov 2025 6:01PM
The budget above is modeled on how Open Collective shows our financial data. It also could be seen through these broad categories:
******* PROPOSED 2026 BUDGET BELOW *******
INCOME IN 2026:
--> Member contributions, expected: 14,000 GBP
EXPENSES IN 2026
--> Core expenses: 3,055 GBP
(Includes payment processing using Stripe via Open Collective, fiscal hosting on Platform 6 Dev. Coop, hosting on Hetzner, domain name on Domains.coop, governance tools such as May First Movement Technology and Loomio)
--> Stipends: 3,500 GBP
(Includes the total stipends/honorariums, combined for all working group members to recognize their volunteer efforts to operate and moderate the coop)
--> Strategic & community: 4,680 GBP
(Includes Community Contributions via a participatory budgeting exercise and Meet.coop accounts for all Social.Coopmembers)
--> Reserves: 1,000 GBP
CURRENT BALANCE in 2025: 30,000 GBP (estimated)
[FYI, you can view our actual current balance right now]