Community Shares Unit from @cooperativesUK, working with partners Plunkett UK and Locality
Manchester
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Celebrating 10 years of our Booster Fund supporting & investing in community share offers:
📈 £5m invested in 98 share offers
📷 £20m unlocked from more than 26,000 community investors 📷
🚀 184 development grants awarded to enable share offers to launch
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👩👧👧Make the most of your members!
Expert training on effective engagement, especially for after you have run a community share offer.
Learn from others and come and ask any questions.
7th Oct online 👇
uk.coop/events-and-training/…
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Its all about making the most of your members!
Hear from @nudgecommunity and Music Venues Properties and engagement expert Steffi Joy
@Plunkett_UK @coop_finance
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Free online training: Community Shares Finance Guide - managing community share capital.
Next Thursday online, book now!
uk.coop/events-and-training/…
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ComShares retweeted
We're joining our partners in celebrating ten years of the Community Shares Booster Fund. This milestone is marked by the announcement of a dedicated successor investment fund from lead partner, Co-operatives UK. 📝
Learn more ➡️ plunkett.co.uk/community-sha…
ALT A graphic to promote a news piece. Atop a dark green background is the Plunkett UK logo in white and an icon of a report with a magnified glass in white. Below is text: 'News: Community Shares Booster Fund celebrates 10 years with new investment fund announcement' Below the text is a picture of members of the community with a drink stood outside the Drewe Arms pub
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This unique form of social investment has been 'existential' for getting many projects moving and catalysing further investment.
Read more here:
uk.coop/resources/report-boo…
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..and Booster has enabled more communities to succeed, with a focus on less affluent communities, helping them to attract further investment to their projects
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Often communities without a track record struggle to attract loan finance and grant funding, but are finding community shares are the obvious way to get a project started.
Read the report to find out more!
uk.coop/resources/report-boo…
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Celebrating 10 years of our Booster Fund supporting & investing in community share offers:
📈 £5m invested in 98 share offers
📷 £20m unlocked from more than 26,000 community investors 📷
🚀 184 development grants awarded to enable share offers to launch
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ComShares retweeted
🎉 Read our new report celebrating 10 years of the @ComShares Booster Fund’s huge impact in kick-starting community regeneration. The report shows how community shares have helped people across England save local assets, boost localities & build stronger local economies.🧵 (1/5)
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We are finalising the next cohort of Community Shares Practitioner Training for 2026-27.
Full details will go in in email newsletter, sign up here:
linktr.ee/comshares
@CooperativesUK @Plunkett_UK
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it will cover:
-community engagement
-governance
-biz planning + financials
-documentation development
-the Standard Mark
-managing the share capital post-raise
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From our friends at @cwmpas.bsky.social this free webinar 'How to Market a Share Offer' next week
eventbrite.co.uk/e/sut-i-far…
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Latest email newsletter on all things community shares has gone out, check it out here if you missed it
co-operativesuk.cmail20.com/…
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🔆Tomorrow we have a FREE @CooperativesUK
webinar on The Power of Community Energy.
Come along and learn about co-ops creating and running community energy projects, inc hearing from some co-operators themselves!
uk.coop/events-and-training/…
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The ICOF Community Capital share offer by @coop_finance closes soon.
They have already raised an impressive £360k, with space for some final investors.
An interesting share offer, given the CITR tax relief available:
ethex.org.uk/invest/icof-com…
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🔆Free @CooperativesUK webinar on 1st July:
The Power of Community Energy
Come along and learn about co-ops creating and running community energy projects, inc hearing from some co-operators themselves!
uk.coop/events-and-training/…
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ComShares retweeted
Co-operate and we can change the world.
#CoopFortnight is here, and This Beautiful Idea by @LongfellaPoet captures what #coops make possible: member-owned businesses making a difference in communities across the UK – and around the world.
Watch, repost and help spread the word.
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