Community shares resources

The definitive guide for community shares – covering all the relevant legal requirements and voluntary good practice standards for share offers.

Investing in community shares is a simple, direct and engaging way of supporting businesses that serve your community.

The purpose of this guidance is to support societies to use community shares to improve their solvency as part of their response and recovery to the current Covid-19 crisis. 

The current economic climate is tough for all businesses. Government has introduced new insolvency legislation to give businesses in distress more opportunity to turn things around. Following successful lobbying by Co‑operatives UK, these reforms now apply to co‑operative and community benefit societies as well as companies. 

An initial report from Amanah Advisors on the potential for community share offers to be recognised as Shariah compliant.