As a cooperative, Kin is owned and run by its members.
Members: everyone who uses the kin platform and every worker and or volunteer who contributes labour to keep the organisation running. Everyone must purchase a £1 share to be a co-owner of the cooperative.
Decisions: every member gets a single vote in the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and on all major issues. On all decisions, the votes of the platform users count for 50% and the votes of the platform workers (including volunteers) count for 50%. That means if we have 50,000 people using the platform and only 20 workers, the workers are still listened to and important (without them, there's no cooperative).
Management: a Board of 50/50 workers and users will be elected by all the members at the first Annual General Meeting (AGM) to oversee the day to day work of the cooperative. The board hires or delegates the management team, who manage the work. The Board can also delegate sub-committees and the members can also create committees outside of the delegation of the board. Ultimately the Board is responsible to the members.