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🎸Read about the The Forum Music Studios in Darlington's journey to community ownership, raising £75k investment via community shares, attracting Arts Council England funding & gaining 225 new investor members to improve their facilities. 🎶Read more here: 🥁👇 uk.coop/case-studies/f…

Looking forward to running this free webinar with Crowdfunder UK on using community shares for energy efficiency measures, sign up below!

Got that #FridayFeeling and want to pay the positivity forward? ☀️ Show your support for Croydon Community Energy by helping them raise money to tackle fuel poverty and create a sustainable future for #Croydon. Get involved 👇 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/croydon-comm…

🍻The Drewe Arms: reviving a historic pub and creating community. 🍺 Read how one #Devon community used community shares and tax relief to raise over £550k from 600 investors to save their pub: Drewe Arms Community Pub uk.coop/case-studies/d… Co-operatives UK

We are SO close to hitting £150k of investment - if we hit it, we can install solar on ANOTHER site in New Addington 🥳 we have an amazing charity in our pipeline that can benefit from community-owned solar panels and we just need the next £23k.

We are proud to announce that we’ve been awarded the Community Shares Standard for our new share offer #HIF2025 With 41,000 already pledged by 24 investors we are almost half way to our initial target to raise £100k, but hope to do even more ComShares Co-operative News Localitynews

“Community Shares are a way for local people and businesses to take a stake in the places where they live, work, trade, and play. The motivation is often more social, ethical, even emotional, than financial,” Sam, HDT Chair. More 👉crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hif25 #InvestLocal #HIF2025

🚩Email update landed in inboxes yesterday on the Community Shares Standard Mark: -What it is -How to use it -Who is using it -Funding to pay for it Catch up below👇 co-operativesuk.cmail20.com/t/t-e-gxtko-jj… Co-operatives UK Plunkett UK Locality

🌏The Globe in Torrington, Devon launch share offer to buy+revive the Globe Hotel and return it to its former glory, raising £230k+ 🏨Individual investments from £50 More: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-globe-ho… Crowdfunder Co-operatives UK

Cheriton Fitzpaine Community Shop Limited in the news! They are raising £100k+ to buy their local chapel to save + rehome their Village's last remaining shop into long term community ownership. Share offer with the Standard Mark, check it out here: cheritonshopchapelproject.info/buy-shares

Are you interested in the future of community shares? Come along to our free event and discussion on 5th June in Manchester: uk.coop/events-and-tra…

Good to Department for Culture, Media and Sport launch their #dormantassets strategy inc £87.5 million for social investment & community wealth funds. This should help more communities to raise the investment they need to succeed

Much needed coffee ahead of journey back to the SW after a great day in MCR today Co-operatives UK with ComShares at a Roundtable event talking all things Community Shares. What next for #commshares. Support still available though at uk.coop Booster programme.

Great day at Co-operatives UK & ComShares yesterday workshopping the future of #communityshares. So many inspiring stories and people. We talked about our Headingley Investment Fund #HIF2025 as it passed £100k. Can you help us to £200k? More here 👉crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hif25

What happens once you have used community shares to fund your community asset project? Join our webinar at 10.30am on Tue 10 June & learn how to manage your members, track investment, and strengthen community involvement for the long term mycommunity.org.uk/succession-pla…

For almost 20 years the #Headingley community has offered its time, skills and resources to create a circular economy where the money spent in Headingley is retained and reinvested here. Watch how and why we've done it and why we are doing it again youtu.be/BRPLEzvUl84?fe…

Read about Otley Common's ambitious plans to take over and transform a disused Methodist Church with backing our Booster Fund and a great write up by Ethex ethex.org.uk/news/a-bluepri…

Aha! Guess who’s speaking at Co-op Congress in Rochdale next week? One of our most exciting yet! 🌟 Steve Coogan joins a stellar cast on the Friday 🧵 Patrick Grant joins Saturday’s line-up 🏛️ Lucy Powell MP delivers a defining Co-operative Party keynote on Friday This year's