The bHive team have been busy as bees creating the co-op model, building the tech, setting up our internal project management systems, writing a storytelling plan and hunting for big funding.

We’re excited about our progress towards a peer-to-peer economic model for Bendigo that looks after people, creates local work, keeps spending flowing in our community and enhances our local place.

In a world that has lost half of all wildlife since 1970, has eight men with the same wealth as the half the worlds population, and with global centralised businesses taking work, investment and control away from local places, we think bHive is a big idea whose time has come.

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