Settle Hydro today, an early #comshares society set up in 2009

📢 📰 Good news! People across the UK are taking ‘levelling up’ into their own hands. They’ve raised £210 million via community shares to boost their communities and save vital assets and services. 🎉

See the new report for more #ComShares news:
➡️ bit.ly/3j1PpHk

Delighted to launch our first ever ComShares impact report to capture what our small team got up in 2023 to help communities make the most of this unique form of raising capital and building a movement, read more below in the thread

Have you been involved in running a community share offer? We are running a webinar on managing this unique form of share capital, your membership and society accounting.

11th June @ 10-11.30am
FREE for Co-operatives UK members👊

All the info - uk.coop/events-and-tra…

Starting now a session on grant funding bodies including our own John Dawson Co-operatives UK and our #comshares funding also @Architect #CombizTogether

Looking forward to this report launch and online event from Power to Change

Community shares ticks a lot of boxes when it comes to affordable, flexible and accessible finance!

Sign up below👇
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New report also from ⁦Common Wealth⁩ on the Case for Ambitious Public Ownership of Renewable Generation

Community Shares and Social Investment feature quite prominently, as well as Ambition LW⁩ & ⁦Westmill Solar Coop⁩

#comshares #socinv common-wealth.org/publications/t…

Great to see this report from #SaveBirmingham partners Co-operatives UK. 80 different communities were supported on their journeys to raise community-based investment in 2023. Shows how community ownership can strengthen neighbourhoods #ComShares ComShares

One day left to invest!! vist our Crowdfunder UK page
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/leeds-commun…
spread the word! Co-operative News Co-operatives UK Community Land Trust Network @comshares LEDA Ltd The Architectural Heritage Fund (England)

Over £840,000 invested in Midlands solar co-op project buff.ly/3k54wQo >> lovely stuff #comshares #socinv

'Community shares' is the term used for withdrawable share capital unique to co-operative and community benefit societies.
Learn more about how they work and enable community-owned businesses to survive and thrive via Good Finance 👉️
goodfinance.org.uk/latest/post/co…
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Thank you to @cvclt1 for this pic of the book launch of These Houses are Ours on Sat in The Town Hall Community Land Trust Network Locality #community #housing ComShares

People power!

Our latest Impact Report has revealed that over 16,000 people have invested in community share offers in Scotland since 2014 helping groups to raise over £19 million in share capital 🙌

For more stats: bit.ly/3S3Gl3y

#citizeninvestors #comshares

Delighted to be with our @BigSocietyCap board in Sheffield kicking off with #Socent dinner @BlendKitchen and joined by Neil Berry Access and 𝕁𝕠𝕙𝕟 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕤𝕠𝕟 ComShares #BuySocial

A look at the growing impact of the community shares model in the UK from Co-operative News It's helping communities take ownership and control of the things that really matter to them.
#coops #communitybusiness #comshares

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💡Renewable energy, powered by the community – and the River Thames! 💦🐟

💚 Discover how Reading Hydro CBS turned a green energy idea into reality, by raising finance through community shares, with support from our ComShares Booster Fund.👏

Read more 👉 buff.ly/3OLs1L4 🤩

ComShares Co-operatives UK Good Finance Thanks for sharing 😊🙏🏻

🏡 💚 Discover how Oxfordshire CLT is improving the lives of people in housing need – and how our ComShares Booster Fund has supported them to create affordable, empowering homes! 😊🌳

🤩 Read their inspiring story: buff.ly/3JqvTxR 👍

Loving this 👉 brontebirthplace.com ComShares #brontes