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This year, we met for our Ordinary General Assembly on Sunday, May 18th, at Masia Brichs in Ardèvol (Pinós, Solsonès), and we also held the cooperative’s Social Meeting.
User members, collaborating members, and working members were invited to the Assembly (in a hybrid format, both in person and via videoconference), to review activities and accounts for the 2024 fiscal year, and to prepare a budget and define strategic lines for the remainder of 2025 and part of 2026.
2024 has once again been an intense year of activities across all cooperative activity groups, with organizational changes and improvements within the team, resulting in a positive financial result that allows us to generate a surplus to continue providing cooperative funds and gain solvency.
Highlights:
• The approval of the 2024 financial statements with a positive balance, for the sixth year since the start of operations.
• A 2025 budget with three scenarios.
• The prospect of adding two new employees to the team.
• The addition of a fifth member to the Board of Directors.
Activity Report
We have organized several events and, in turn, participated in events to which we were invited. 
At CommonsCloud, we have focused on improving tools and platforms, infrastructure and tool maintenance, providing support, training, and meetings, with consulting services for member organizations and individuals; creating guides and tutorials; conducting communications and advertising; and providing other specialized services, such as the Backoffice for Athenaeums and Communities.
At Transitant, we have continued mapping, communication, support, and tool provision at the Ateneu del Barcelonès Nord. We have supported the Encommun.io project in Quebec. We have provided university training for several master’s programs. We have documented (as is tradition) the Sobtec conference, and we have participated in the PliegOS project.
At XOIC, we have continued deploying the Open Network, maintaining contact with services, municipalities, and public agencies. We have advised and supported use cases, provided training, and gained expertise in incorporating new team members to achieve robustness and improve geographic provision.
At COMSOC, we have continued carrying out activities and projects in educational centers, radio and podcast training for global justice for adults, and we have developed reference materials in the educational field.
Activity Report
Social Report
We are members of federations, networks, associations, and cooperatives: Federation of Labor Cooperatives (FCTC); Federation of Consumer Cooperatives (Coopconsum); XES, eXO, The Things Network, CulturaCoop; La Lleialtat Santsenca; Som Mobilitat; Meet.coop; Web Architects; Som Conexió.
femProcomuns has 185 user members and organisations: 87 organisations and 98 individuals. In 2024, there were 18 new members and 23 more from January to May 2025. In 2022, there was a significant increase in the number of female user members, and in 2023, in the adoption of services. More than half of the member entities are cooperatives (53) and 29% are associations (25). More than 33% of members are women (24% in April 2024). The members are users of CommonsCloud services.
There are 4 working members, 2 working members on their way to becoming members, and 11 collaborating members. At the beginning of 2024, there was a new working member and a change from a working member to a collaborating member.
Social Report
Financial Report
We had income of €260,000 and expenses of €240,000. Before deferring, income was €340,000, but we have deferred €140,000 to 2025 to complete projects started at the end of 2024.
This graph shows the evolution of income and expenses since the cooperative began operating. The green line shows the accounting income for the year, and the red line shows the expenses. The blue line shows the revenue for the fiscal year before deferring the anticipated revenue corresponding to work performed the following year.
This year, the GACs’ revenue is more unbalanced compared to previous years.
In the case of CommonsCloud, revenues exceeded €120,000. This project contributes almost half of the revenue (47%), and the remainder is between 22% and 15%. All GACs contribute 15% of their income to Structure, which this year has a small portion of its own income, mainly from the subsidy that will be spent in 2025. Significant amounts of CommonsCloud and XOIC billing are being deferred from 2024 for tasks and services being performed in 2025.
Income from billing (40%) and fees (6%) is slightly higher than that from subsidies (39%). We continue with the goal of lowering this percentage without giving up on applying for subsidies.
In these two graphs, we see the type of expenses for 2024 and their evolution since the cooperative began operating. Since 2021, two-thirds or more of the costs are labor (61% in 2024) and have been growing with the expansion of staff, working hours, and salaries. Professional services (21%) have risen again, and in the financial report, we differentiate them from purchases (3%). Other expenses include servers, transportation, per diem, insurance, among others.
The Assembly approved a proposal to fund cooperative funds from the fiscal year’s surpluses, which once again allows for increased solvency. It’s important to note the allocation of the cooperative education and promotion fund (FEPC) at 15% (above the mandatory 10%) and the allocations that go to the Mandatory Fund and the Commons Collective Fund, where the remaining surpluses go after the other funds have been allocated and taxes paid. Currently, these funds represent 26% of annual expenses. These allocations, along with capital, allow us to avoid cash flow strains when managing the projects we work on.
Financial ReportStrategy and Budgets 2025-26
With the vision of femProcomuns as our horizon: “We are building a strategic social tool to make commons activity viable and sustainable,” we have rethought our strategic lines for the coming months:
External Strategic Lines
1. Deepen the community dimension of our own and supported projects
2. Identify and delve into the axes of eco-social transition, and participate in the processes underway.
Internal Strategic Lines
1. Consolidate our financial position, gain autonomy and solvency while respecting the ethical limits defined by Tronco.
2. Improve internal organization and work processes.
3. Consolidate a team of working partners.
4. Promote community building and significantly increase the number of user partners and entities, reduce the gender imbalance, and improve diversity.
5. Review the cooperative’s governance, rethink participation bodies and channels.
6. Improve based on the Social Balance Sheet.
Strategic Lines
Budgets
The Assembly also approved the 2025 budget with three scenarios based on eventual revenue, ranging from €240,000 to €380,000, and the following: maintaining a GAC contribution to the structure of 15% of revenue, maintaining a fund allocation equal to or greater than 20% of annual expenditure, incorporating one person to work in the structure and one in XOIC, in addition to the possible reduction of full-time working hours and salary increases according to the Salary Targets Committee.
Budget DocumentationRenewal of the Governing Board
This year, the Governing Board has been renewed with a new addition, now comprised of the following people:
- Mònica Garriga. Renewed as a member of the CR. Working partner and founder of femProcomuns. She works at Structure, the GAC-CC, and the GAC-Transitant; mainly in project management and support at CommonsCloud, and at Transitant, promoting cooperativism and the transition to commons models. She has also participated in XOIC. A lawyer by training, specializing in communications, she was a correspondent in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific before rethinking pyramidal models of information and communication and becoming interested in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and collaborative and commons practices.
- Iker Bilbao. New member of the CR. Working partner of femProcomuns. He works at the GAC-XOIC providing consulting and advice, sensor and antenna configuration, training, planning, and management. He is a Telecommunications Engineer by training; committed to open networks and free technologies.
- David GómezRenewed as a member of the CR. Working partner and founder of femProcomuns. He works at Estructura, the GAC-CC, the GAC-Transitant, and the GAC-XOIC. He has a background in fine arts, social anthropology, and ethnographic research; With one foot in technology and the other in methodologies and facilitation, committed to open knowledge and free technologies.
- Ricard Espelt. Renewed as a member of the CR. Collaborating partner and founder of femProcomuns. He has a background in Fine Arts and the Knowledge Society. Associate professor at the Department of Economics and Business Studies and researcher at the TURBA group. Cultural activist and co-founder of the inLoft contemporary research and creation center in Copons (Anoia). He is also part of the PliegOS team, linked to the GAC Transitant.
- David Jacovkis. Renewed as a member of the CR. Collaborating partner of femProcomuns, working partner, and head of the GAC-CC between 2020 and 2024. He has a background in physics. A systems administrator, committed to free software and open knowledge. He is a collaborating partner of the GAC CommonsCloud.
Social Gathering
This year we held the social gathering at the Brichs Farmhouse in Ardèvol, at the foot of the Sierra de Pinós mountains, very close to the geographic center of Catalonia, and at the home of Agustina and Xavier, femProcomuns partners.
The meal consisted of salads, grilled goat and sausage, homemade bread with tomato and aioli, Priorat wine and cake, and a homemade sponge cake made by the Brichs. The musical part consisted of a workshop and improvised concert with the drums of the Diablons d’Alcover.
