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Someone also did a piece on digital in Mutual Aid on OpenDemocracy, in which we were mentioned.
It is difficult to identify the exact date when the first COVID-19 mutual aid group was created in the UK, but many of them were established around the 10 to 15 March 2020. There were call outs on Facebook and Twitter for people to launch a group in their locality by setting up a Facebook page or a Whatsapp group. People could then register the links to their Facebook or Whatsapp groups on a list initially compiled by Freedom Press, that runs Britain’s oldest anarchist press and magazine and its largest bookshop. Common Knowledge, a cooperative that designs digital tools for radical change, soon incorporated this list into one compiled on software tool Airtable and then collaborated with volunteers from the UK national website, who had been doing their own data gathering, to create one unified list of all registered groups. These volunteers produced software that allowed visitors to the UK mutual aid website an easy way to find the group operating in their area.