John Atherton
Localmotion Programme Manager at Self-employed
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Atherton is a community and co-operative development leader with 18+ years shaping membership strategy, governance and place-based economic initiatives across the UK. Currently Programme Manager for LocalMotion at Action Together, he designs systems-change experiments that tackle root causes of local social and economic injustice while also advising and training community and co-operative businesses as a consultant. Previously he led membership and events at Co-operatives UK and helped found workers.coop to empower worker-owned enterprises, blending hands-on operational delivery with sector-wide advocacy. John combines board-level governance experience with grassroots project delivery, and his background in economics and geography gives him a practical lens for connecting policy, finance and community action. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of building lasting local institutions—from community transport to law centre governance—demonstrating skill in both start-up creation and sustaining mature organisations. Based in Stevenage, he is focused on scaling cooperative solutions that let workers control and benefit from their own labour.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA hons, Economics & Geography, BA hons, Economics & Geography at Keele UniversityA levels: Economics, Biology, Geography and General Studies, A levels: Economics, Biology, Geography and General Studies at The Bluecoats School Oldham
EnglishGithub contributions (3)
cooperativesuk/workercode
Jul 2016 - Aug 2019
This is a code of best practice for running a worker co-op
Contributions:54 commits, 5 PRs, 48 pushes in 3 years 1 month
best-ofbest-practiceco-opworker
cooperativesuk/worker-co-op-model-rules-company-limited-by-shares
Jul 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 months
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