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Community Buying?

Community buying involves consumers combining their buying power to buy goods or services together, getting better deals and saving money. Our Guide gives you practical information on how to set up and run a community buying group. This is your space too, so feel free to chip in with your experiences and carry on the discussion on the moneysavingexpert forum.
The Buy Better Together Challenge

Applications are now open! Enter the Buy Better Together Challenge – an exciting initiative to inspire new models of community buying. A £60,000 pot will go towards training and mentoring for stand out projects, including £15k for the overall winner.
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Reminder: Entries for the Buy Better Together Challenge must be with us by Tuesday 15 May.
The Community Buying Blog (click for older posts)
- Reflections on the Challenge
  11 May 2012
  
  Consumer Affairs Minister Norman Lamb met the Buy Better Together Challenge Judges – here are his reflections on the importance of the Challenge: He was joined by David Button from co-sponsor Co-operatives UK who also spoke in support … Continue reading →
- Time to realise the full potential for community buying
  2 May 2012
  
  Maresa Bossano is a judge on the Buy Better Better Together Challenge and runs the Food Co-ops and Buying Groups strand of the Making Local Food Work programme. Previously, she worked as Five a Day co-ordinator for Hastings and Rother primary care … Continue reading →
- The value of Buying Better Together
  20 Apr 2012
  
  A post from Robin Murray, one of the Buy Better Together Challenge judges. Robin is an industrial economist. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics, he joined the London Business School, where he lectured in Economics, … Continue reading →

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