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Community Shares Unit from @cooperativesUK, working with partners Plunkett UK and Locality
Manchester
Joined October 2010
🚨Great news for community business – our Booster Fund is extending its support for community share offers! 🙌A new tranche of funding: £360,000 for match equity investment and £200,000 for development grants. 🔎 Find out more: https://t.co/N7CTqAe92Z
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Do you want to get involved with the government’s call for evidence on how we best support and grow the co-operative sector in the UK? ⏱️ There’s not long go until our online webinars to get our members’ input.
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'Bid to save Ponsanooth’s last pub reached a major milestone' as community share offer has now raised almost £100,000 toward buying the historic Stag Hunt Inn. https://t.co/tSyg7AtWEp
falmouthpacket.co.uk
The Save The Stag campaign announced that its community share offer has now raised almost £100,000 toward buying the historic Stag Hunt Inn.
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Kings Heath Community Centre and their share offer is featured on the BBC website. Over 300 people so far have stepped forward and invested to save the future of the centre, see more here: https://t.co/j04RERx0Q8 & on @crowdfunderuk
crowdfunder.co.uk
Help us secure the future of Kings Heath Community Centre — owned by the community, for the community.
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£2,000 donation received today! Moved us closer turning Stuart's house into a community owned affordable rented secure home for people age 35 or under. Join the 67 investors & invest (from £50, 2% return) or donate. https://t.co/bh8OeLzdut
#heptonstall #hebdenbridge
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Check our our Linktree for quick links to all the community shares resources you might need! https://t.co/23qp4SQAoD
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Links from the Community Shares Unit (a partnership of Co-operatives UK, Locality and Plunkett UK).
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The village where a third of people invested in their community shop! Community shares & Cheriton Fitzpaine in the BBC https://t.co/wuQXzOvCWi "it's absolutely fabulous.. No shop, no village."
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🍻Community shares offer helps reclaim the New Clarence Pub in #Hull. 🫂A rare urban community pub, brought into community hands and now with 440 investor members! https://t.co/JBdDOwnKrb
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🗣️Our new research reveals that rural #combiz are already delivering social, economic and environmental benefits that align directly with government ambitions – yet they remain under-recognised & under-supported in doing so. ➡️Read the report: https://t.co/USC6RBbp9d
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⏰ Less than 3 weeks until Practitioners Forum in Manchester, 6 November. Our biggest day of learning for co-operatives is packed with insight focused on HR, finance, membership, governance and communications – plus lots of networking! Join us 👉 https://t.co/PZD9OPoAx5
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📃We now publish details of all community share offers with our Standard Mark online here: https://t.co/tlvn3j43AE ✅This is our gold standard awarded to community share offers based on an independent assessment against agreed good practice criteria.
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Webinar this afternoon: Co-operatives and the Gov's plan for neighbourhoods, find out more how co-ops and #comshares could be part of the solution to neighbourhood empowered change! https://t.co/pTztsPNTnm
@mhclg
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🥶As it gets colder, we have grant funds still available for Energy Efficiency improvements in your community building, see our Sharematch fund with @crowdfunderuk for details: 😎 https://t.co/CyEJBDEIU9
@CooperativesUK @GoodFinanceUK
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The Community Right to Buy is a key part of today's Pride in Place Programme. We wanted to know what the public thought about this groundbreaking new law - here's what they had to say.
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💦 Community power making a big splash! 💙 🫶 With support from the @Comshares Booster Fund, @bramleybaths in Leeds is getting the TLC it deserves. 🤩 🛠️ The redevelopment plan for this much-loved community hub in an Edwardian Grade‑II listed building has become a reality! 🥳
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The English Devolution Bill, which contains proposed legislation for a Community Right to Buy, passed its second reading in the House of Commons yesterday (2 September). ➡️Read our full response in our latest news piece: https://t.co/O6CVCXfZHG
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Hull’s first community-owned pub, The New Clarence is set to open its doors. Pleased through Booster we've been able to help @HullPubSociety with their community share raise to help pay for this urban community owned pub: https://t.co/DbPKiSZsnf
bbc.co.uk
The New Clarence, in Hull, will reopen its doors on Saturday after a community effort to save it.
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🚗 Co‑op cars that save money and the planet! 💚 🤩 Meet POD (Calder Valley Shared Transport) a community-owned car club revolutionising travel in Hebden Bridge and Todmorden with their app‑based hybrid car sharing service. 🚙 🛣️ Their customers enjoy the freedom of the road
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...to use the multi-stakeholder co-operative society structure and still be awarded the Community Shares Standard Mark.
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