About this project
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Building planning and design
To make La OSA a reality, we must start with a design and building planning. This first item it's a must.
We will be covering with this, our Architecture fees and Engineering cost that will guide us on the construction of the supermarket.
We are also planning to cover with this expense all the cost related to health and safety during the works.
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€ 25.000 | |
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Crowdfunding
There´re a lot of people working together to make this crowdfunding be a success, including Goteo. We´re also planning to use a part of this expenses in the promotion of this campaign.
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€ 5.000 | |
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Building work license
This part of the budget is dedicated to : City Licenses, Construction Licenses, Waste Licenses and building insurance.
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€ 21.000 | |
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IT Infrastructure
This part of the budget is dedicated to IT. We’ll need hardware and software to run our business. We’re planning to implement an ERP that will help to manage all processes. We´ll need computers and a infrastructure to organize all the aspect of the business.
Odoo is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) that has been used for several years by La Louve , a successful Food Coop based in Paris , France, that had customized Odoo over the years to help then run all managements areas needed for a Food Coop Market..
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€ 14.000 | |
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Rent
We´ll need to pay rent for our building during the construction phase. We want to make sure that we could cover rent expenses in the case our construction phase need to be extended.
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€ 13.000 |
Materiaal
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Shipping costs
This expense will be used to cover the shipping cost for the rewards that we´re proposing to our contributors.
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€ 2.000 | |
| Totaal | € 32.000 | € 80.000 |
General information
La Osa, is a Food Coop Market that has been created with the aim of transforming the existing consumption model here in Madrid, Spain, allowing members to participate actively through cooperation and teamwork while building an alternative to commercial profit-oriented business.
To make this transformation happens, we need your help. We need some initial funds, that added to the contribution made by our members, will help us to ensure a mortgage already negotiated with the Ethical bank. This mortgage it´s fundamental to complete successfully our project.
This is the reason why we´re reaching to you via this campaign asking for your help. We want to make sure that we´re open in mid-2020 to serve our growing community.
La Osa is nonprofit and proposes a business model that strives to reduce our impact in the world supporting sustainable production & distribution. We´re engage in building a community where we act as buying agents and where social and environmental principles are shared with in and by our members. We´re committed to diversity and equality. We strive to make La OSA welcoming and accessible to all.
Member participations is a key factor that differentiate La OSA from other market models, allowing to reduce operative cost and increase benefits for members. La OSA will reduce commercial margins to provide coop members with good quality product at lowers prices.
Belangrijkste kenmerken
We have a mission to become a supermarket owned, managed and operated democratically by our members. Members are our customers, but also people with different skills and backgrounds that will help to fill and drive the different positions that will be need it to run our organization.
We want to be a successful model that other communities could take as a reference and transform the food sector.
These are the 5 values we share in our organization.
• Compromise: A firm compromise with people and society. We offer the opportunity to provide an active and responsible role for consumers a community members. We´re committed to help low income families to get access to good quality produces at a fair
• Transparency: Our transparency policy, provides every member or forecasting member all information needed to know about our project.
• Cooperation: We are an organization based on cooperation, and we´re aiming to share our knowledge and tools to all people and projects that share our principles and values.
• Creativity: We´re a community where curiosity and critical thinking make us work together. Our goal is to reach a consumption model that will be continuously improving, focusing on benefits that we could provide to our community.
• Inclusion: We are committed to diversity and equality. We oppose discrimination in any form. We strive to make the Coop welcoming and accessible to all and to respect the opinions, needs and concerns of every member.
Waarom is dit belangrijk
La OSA is aim to people who think that food could help to drive social change and economic e equity, believing that is necessary to have a change on the existing model on commercial food distribution. Thus, any person of any age, gender, social or cultural background, could be part our project. We are committed to diversity and equality.
2decologico (2D) is an organic food store located in Malasaña (Madrid) that has been providing seasonal, sustainable and locals products since 2016 to the neighborhood.
MARES, was a program runned by the city of Madrid that focused on social equity and urban transformation. Taking Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, New York, as a model , started mobilizing people in the community that will be interested in the creation of the first Food Coop in Madrid.
MARES provided 2D with resources, advice and help to build a team of volunteers and professionals that shaped the future supermarket. After several months of hard work and planning, 2D became La OSA.
La OSA has now a dedicated team of 6 employees that, with the help of other Coop members, is leading all the efforts to ensure the completion of the project by mid 2020s.
Social commitment
Citizen participation
A supermarket that relies on participation, where members help to run the market through cooperation , getting access to good quality produce for a fair price.