Castlemaine Community Investment Co-operative

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We are a co-operative working to purchase local properties to make them community owned, for good!

We are a group of residents working together to purchase and manage local properties, taking them out of the speculative real estate market, to make them community owned. Our mission is to provide opportunities for local people to invest in community real estate assets to:
- tackle the economic inequality being generated by outside real estate investment and profit extraction, and
- ensure our valuable community assets continue to support things we value, for example, locally owned services, fair access to housing, and action on the climate crisis. Our vision is for the community to collectively control its real estate assets. Our success will mean more money staying in our community, more support for the businesses and organisations we know and love, and greater opportunity for locals to shape our town’s development.

30/10/2026

Our ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING is:
🕘 5.30pm - 6.30pm (sharp!)
📅 Thursday 19 November
🚀 Castlemaine Town Hall

Come along and hear what we have achieved in our first year of owning the Hub and what we have planned for next year.

We will start with a short Pitch It! where you will hear ideas from four members/other co-ops about things that would be great to be community owned. You will vote to give a $1,000 prize (donated from Paul Ramsay Foundation Fellowship) to help one of them progress their idea. There are some beauties!

This will be followed by the formal AGM business. The papers are here on our website https://castlemaine.coop/2026/10/2026-annual-general-meeting/.

We have three Directors whose 3 year Board terms are ending (Angus, Cath and Jeanette) and they will be heading off to Co-operative Working Groups. Our three new Director nominations are in the papers.

See you at the AGM!

26/10/2026

PEOPLE POWER HITS MULTI MILLION TECH FIRM
"When power company crews dug holes in Sanderson Street, Yarraville, residents who had warily watched the approach of industrial-scale power poles [for new data centres] took action, leaving cars and bins in the street to block the workers' access.

Unable to get equipment in position, the Jemena crews filled in the holes they had prepared, left and have not been back.

That quiet act of suburban defiance not only stopped infrastructure meant to provide the juice for the next stage of NEXTDC's West Footscray data centre, it resulted in the company's very bad day on the stock exchange on Wednesday...

The titans behind trillion-dollar deals in our AI-boom economy may have spent time looking up "WeFo" [west footscray] on Google Maps, reading about plans for Tasmanian data centres, and wondering: is this where it started to unravel?"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-23/nextdc-downgrade-sees-people-power-hit-for-multi-billion-firm/107293706?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

24/10/2026

Today our friends the Mount Alexander Sustainability Group has a special film screening of:

'An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power'
When: Sunday 25 October, 3pm
Where: Theatre Royal Castlemaine

What a difference they have made to this town. Let's celebrate their 20 years of climate action!

More info and tickets at www.masg.org.au/20-years/

22/10/2026

Our guide 'how our community bought a two million dollar building' is LAUNCHED!

If you would like a copy let us know or download it from www.castlemaine.coop

22/10/2026

Packing our limited print copies of 'How our community bought a two million dollar building' for tonight.

If you are a Castlemaine Community Investment Co-operative and want one as a thank-you, make sure you get to:

Phee Broadway Foyer
TODAY Thursday October 24
5.30pm - 6.30pm

🚀People have been calling all day!
Don't miss out!

Otherwise find the pdf in the news section of our homepage www.castlemaine.coop!

Join us! The future is co-operative!

21/10/2026

Tomorrow is the local launch of our guide "How our community bought a two million dollar building"

Thursday 22nd October
5.30 - 6.30pm
Phee Broadway Foyer

The Taproom - Shedshaker Brewing will have a bar available.

Come and meet us and pick up a free limited edition copy as a thanks for being part of buying the Hub!

20/10/2026

Looking forward to seeing you at the local launch of our guide "How our community bought a two million dollar building"

This Thursday 22nd October (2 sleeps!)
5.30 - 6.30pm
Phee Broadway Foyer

The Taproom - Shedshaker Brewing will have a bar available.

Come and meet fellow members!

19/10/2026

Don't miss our webinar with the mighty Barossa Co-op!

This month we are launching our guide “How Our Community Bought a TwoMillion Dollar Building”. It was written to help others who want to buyprofitable assets in their communities.

17/10/2026

Five sleeps til we help judy horacek put on her show 'Everyone on the bus fell down (not just me):
7pm, Thursday 24th October, Phee Broadway. Tickets from Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/everyone-on-the-bus-fell-down-not-just-me-castlemaine

Read about in this week's Castlemaine Mail - they are always in the know!

❤️ At 5.30-6.30 the Castlemaine Community Investment Co-operative will also launch our guide for others 'How our community bought a two million dollar building" in the Phee Broadway foyer. Funded by Paul Ramsay Foundation. Free!

Maybe your 🫵 picture is in it!

The Taproom - Shedshaker Brewing will have a bar.

See you for launch. And show if you want to make a night of it.

17/10/2026

Castlemaine Seed Library is growing! Get your FREE seeds at their new cabinet in the Castlemaine library!

Apparently every carrot can produce 2,000 seeds, so why import them, when we can package the best up here and share.

Congrats on turning 10 seed library! Simply the best!

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Castlemaine, VIC

Website

http://castlemaine.coop/

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