Community Shares Practitioners

Becoming a Community Shares Practitioner

Co-operatives UK trains and licenses Community Shares Practitioners across the country. There is a well established college of practitioners across the UK who share knowledge and experience, supporting each other to grow and innovate in the community shares market in line with best practice. 

All practitioners are members of a supportive and active forum, meet online every six weeks and we host at least one in person meet-up a year with visits to fascinating organisations across the country. 

The demand for community shares practitioners is high and many societies and funders are very happy to invest in professional practitioner advice on community share offers as the returns of a successful community share offer are significant. To read more about the success of the community shares market to date, read our latest publication ‘Communities doing it for themselves: celebrating a decade of the Community Shares Unit’ (2023). 

We are not currently running Community Shares Practitioner Training, but if you are interested in future training opportunities please contact [email protected]