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You can read the @ImpactInvInst report 'Unlocking the potential of community-based finance here' which details over £230m raised in community shares impactinvest.org.uk/resources/publ…

Interesting session from @ImpactInvInst on community-based finance. Good to see community shares featured in their report inc the call for 'a national matching-fund scheme'. Our @comshares Booster Fund a great example of this in practice!

The Headingley Investment Fund HIF2025 is open. Find out more at hdtleeds.org.uk/investment-fun… Invest at crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hif25 #Headingley #HIF2025 #CommunityShares #Crowdfunding

🍻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: @TheDreweArmsPub uk.coop/case-studies/d… @CooperativesUK

🚨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: buff.ly/4i8dXr4

To celebrate their 120th birthday and now 11 years in community ownership @bramleybaths looks to "raise the roof" with community share issue westleedsdispatch.com/bramley-baths-… With support from @CooperativesUK @si_access @powertochange_

Happy 120th birthday to Bramley Baths - and they've marked the occasion by launching a £350,000 community share offer to raise money to repair the roof at the grade II Listed building ⤵️⤵️ westleedsdispatch.com/bramley-baths-…

Friday Inspiration🌊🪇 Congleton Hydro Where there’s a will – and a weir – there’s a way to form a community energy society. Find our how @CooperativesUK helped one community in Cheshire set up a community owned hydro scheme using community shares! uk.coop/case-studies/c…

We’re so pleased to see the Government include our ask of a Community Right to Buy in their new English Devolution Bill. This could be genuinely transformative. We’re looking forward to working with the Government and MPs to make sure this genuinely empowers local people who want more control over the things that matter to them.

🎉 We’re pleased that Co-operatives UK is repping #coops and #comshares at @StirToAction’s ABCs Festival in #Bristol – happening now! If you’re there, come and say hello 👋 #democraticeconomy #workercoops #communityshares #cooperatives #communityowned #workerowned

A visit to the magnificent @victoriabaths yesterday

Former Chief Secretary to the Treasury @stephenctimms in @CityAM calling for a strategic partnership with the #ImpactEconomy to tackle some of the UK's most entrenched issues. bit.ly/4by0YLE

Vicky Dunn from @GyComEnergy at #CoopCongress calling for more match institutional investment for communities to scale up community owned renewables ☀️💨 @Comm1nrg @CooperativesUK

.@jeevanjones and @francesnorthrop are introducing #Coopcongress to the @savebirmingham uprising and campaign to save community places @CooperativesUK

@DevlinGed Tax incentives is something for a new government to look at, SITR seemed to slip away quietly

Some pretty giddy predictions at the introduction of this relief - and maybe these would have been met if the relief wasn’t so restrictive for social enterprises that could have made use of it - See in particular 1.) Community Energy 2.) Community Assets

Just got around to looking at the Social Investment Tax Relief stats from last year ( ‘22 - ‘23 ) Seems as it was getting towards the end (closure of the scheme was in Apr ‘23) the amounts and number of orgs raising £££ was pretty consistent c. 40 orgs p/a raising £5m - £6m

Has your co-op or society been trading for 3 years or less? 🫵 Don’t miss out on your bursary ticket for #CoopCongress. At a 50% discount, join us on the 14-15 June in #Birmingham for the UK’s biggest movement-wide event! 🙌 Book now 👉 buff.ly/3NgKm29

Good to see this report launched by @peoplesbiz on financing the future economy, and the unlocking 'affordable, flexible and accessible finance'. Pleased that @CooperativesUK and @ComShares has helped to feed in and lots of coverage of community shares Read more below 👇

🔋New fund supports community businesses to ‘go green!’ 🌲 @CooperativesUK @crowdfunderuk & @si_access have come together to support communities to invest in energy efficiency measures via community shares🌞 More here 👉 uk.coop/support-your-c…

Good to see these important points on accessibility of public transport in #sheffield raised by @BurtonSt and getting some coverage. See the article by @Sheffield_Wire sheffieldwire.co.uk/index.php/2024…

🚨 Accessibility in #Sheffield 🚨 Our clients planned a trip to #Bakewell, but faced unexpected barriers. We were forced to arranged an alternative solution, costing us £290 instead of £12. We've invited @olivercoppard to hear their voices. RT to show your support! @TmTravel4