This is a project about collaboration and mutual aid in Liverpool. Nerve and First-Take are working together to seek out alternatives to the prevailing competition-based economic system and to learn lessons from the past. Workers and housing co-operatives, friendly associations, mutual aid centres, trade unions, credit unions, LETS systems, and social centres are all examples of collaboration. We will look at what these ventures did, why they did it, what effect they had, what worked, what didn’t work and how this has relevance for today.

This project is funded by the Heritage Lottery.