The Community Shares Company

We help communities raise capital to make their enterprises thrive.

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Community shares empower people to achieve great things–and we  will be speaking about this unique form of finance at #CoopCongress, 18 June in Birmingham alongside @comshares’s @dawsonjohn and others. Join them and find out more: https://t.co/fa4MBypmyC

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@wkathomson @Maple_Works @peoplesbiz @TheSocialInvest Also long-term mortgages from specialist lenders like @EcologyBS and @triodosuk which are interested in projects that bring social impact, which works well with community shares and some grant finance. Reach fund (and other funds) can help get all ducks lined up!

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@Maple_Works Hi there-most community buyouts are a mixture of grant, shares and loans. There are bespoke lenders who provide commercial mortgages to groups for around 65% of value, with remainder+renovation costs funded by shares and grants. Happy to chat?
https://t.co/GYxRIlWSns

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@DevlinGed @My_impact_is @CommonCapitaI Blimey. There’s a blast from the past. I can’t recall. But I use it in presentations. We forget how the kind of capital amounts community orgs need can be derived from comparatively few people

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@annaturley Hi Anna - @projektsmcr showed how a combination of grant funding and community investment can make a real difference

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@JoBoardman @ccreweread @Hastings_Pier @IoFCulture Am aware of Hastings Pier and Wakefield Unity Works; what other #ComShares gone under?

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@lindabarlow101 @DevlinGed @David_Chater @peoplesbiz @GovanhillBaths @CommSharesScot @CooperativesUK And us, writing the share offer doc :-)

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New Blog: Alex Kann, CEO, The Community Channel - https://t.co/Qb03GPvkRp #comshares

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Alex Kann, CEO, The Community Channel https://t.co/qZOR5nsb8Q

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@adamgarfunkel1 yes, but up to a point, Lord Copper! #LosingControl

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@adamgarfunkel1 board curate rather than create, I think. On board to do donkey work, not cos brilliant people (my impression anyway!)

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Traditional agenda meeting style is a devil, promulgated by an old Stalinist git called Walter Citrine. Bin it! #LosingControl

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In Carver gov board job to stay close to stakeholders about future not retrospective oversight over shoulder of staff #LosingControl

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Really powerful stuff about bad things getting stuck in organisational DNA from start #LosingControl

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Seeds of Change are superb. used a matchstick debate to equal power between haringey kids and Met police after 2011 riots #LosingControl

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Bah. URLs stripped out. Google it #LosingControl

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Loomio: https://t.co/SUmc0iJA2m #LosingControl

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Fascinating stuff from Paul Steedman from seems to reflect Iron Law of Oligarchy (“who says organisation says oligarchy”) #LosingControl

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Yes indeed ladies and gentleman, bit of (very welcome) politics from @immykaur #LosingControl #whenbeneltonwasstillgood