We formally became a Co-Operative Community Interest Company (CIC) in 2023, meaning we are owned and controlled by our members, to meet their shared needs. We believe being a Co-Operatively organised business, representative and responsive to our community’s needs, is the best way to ensure our project is around for generations of boaters to come.
You can learn more about the core team who keep the CR project alive and pushing forward to meet our ecological and community goals on the ‘Meet the Team’ page and learn how you can support us or have your say as a member or volunteer via the ‘Get Involved!‘ page.
Our Mission
‘Circular Revolution aims to provide a sustainable, equitable and accessible waste management service shaped by and for Boaters.’
Our Mission Statement can be broken down into our following Four Aims:
Aim 1: Improve Boater’s access to safe and sustainable sanitation:
Boaters are an under-served community who (like all people) deserve to have not just their basic needs met, but to have the resources and knowledge necessary to live safely, happily and ethically. In law, there is no designated authority to provide sanitation facilities for boaters, and the traditional facilities that are provided are becoming increasingly less available. We aim to contribute to an infrastructure which ensures boaters can safely and reliably manage their ‘waste’, as well as the freedom and information to decide by which means they will do this.
Aim 2: Ensure the service we provide is responsive to our community’s needs and available to all who want to use it:
The boating community is a diverse population who mainly live nomadically. Circular Revolution will ensure that our service is responsive to the social, economic, and cultural needs of boaters and specifically make sure that economic status is not a barrier to access. Our organisation and ways of working will respect and embrace people of all backgrounds, genders and abilities. A key organising principle of Circular Revolution in this regard is our adoption of the principles of a Co-Operative business.
Aim 3: Contribute to an improvement in the health of our immediate environment and of the wider eco-system:
The traditional sewered-sanitation facilities otherwise on offer to boaters contributes significantly to the pollution of our immediate and wider environment, including the waterways we call our home. Inspired by and utilising principles of ‘circularity’, we will ensure the ‘waste’ management solutions we provide are as environmentally- friendly as possible and creates energy and resources instead of wasting them.
Aim 4: Be the instrument for wider change:
The traditional sewage and sanitation system in the UK is a private, for-profit industry which prioritises share-holder profits and causes irreparable environmental damage through its mismanagement. We want to showcase a grass-roots, sustainable and circular waste management model which both works and is replicable in other community settings.
Articles of association
If you’d like to find out more about the nitty gritty of how our Co-Operative is governed, please find below our ‘Articles of Association’ (updated and approved at the Feb 2025 AGM) and our Secondary Rules (also approved at the Feb AGM). The Secondary Rules document is designed to contain all the information in regard to:
- ‘Why’ Circular Revolution exsists
- ‘What’ Circular Revolution does and aims to do
- ‘How’ Circular Revolution works co-operatively together, including our governance structure, decision making processes and how often we meet together