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Community share offers with the Standard Mark

Check out community share offers which have launched with the Community Shares Standard Mark. 

The Community Shares Standard Mark is awarded to share offers that meet national standards of best practice. It ensures openness, transparency and credibility of community share offers. Use the links below to find out more about the offers launched. 

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2026

Mayday Saxonville
Large scale community land acquisition & development in Frome
Exeter Community Energy
Open offer from established society to invest in more solar
Hull Community Pub
Second share offer to refurbish upstairs function room
Staffordshire Community Energy
Community-owned solar at Lichfield Leisure Centre
Low Carbon Hub
Open offer for UK’s first community-owned solar battery
Todmorden Community Energy
Solar energy on the Hippodrome Theatre in West Yorkshire
ICOF Community Capital
A revolving loan fund that empowers co-operatives and community businesses
Bamford Community Society
2026 Open Offer for Bamford Community Society and pub
Coalville C.A.N.
2026 offer to purchase 2 Mantle Lane on Memorial Square in Coalville
Sister Midnight
Sister Midnight 2026 offer: 'The Final Push' to refurb & reopen a new live music venue in Catford

2024 / 2025

Oyez Arts
Share offer to ensure that Altrincham Town Hall is retained for community benefit and becomes a home for art, culture, and connection.
The Craufurd Arms
Share offer to secure the future of The Craufurd Arms, Maidenhead, protecting the town’s last community pub and ensuring its long-term sustainability under local ownership
Calder Valley Community Land Trust Limited
Share offer to work with the people of the Calder valley to hold property and create sustainable and affordable homes in vibrant communities
Ponsanooth Community Benefit Society Limited
Share offer to support the community purchase of The Stag Hunt Inn and keep it at the heart of village life
Kings Head Community Benefit Society
Share offer to bring the King’s Head into community ownership - securing its future and ensuring it becomes a vibrant, successful, and sustainable business that benefits local people, local enterprises, and the wider community
Pitton Community Store
Share offer to create a vibrant community-run shop, Post Office, cafe and information hub, which will serve the residents of Pitton, Farley, Firsdown, and East Grimstea
Dùthchas Arainn CBS
Share offer to to fund a comprehensive feasibility study for woodland crofting in Forestry and Land Scotland's Glenrickard Land Management Area (Glencloy)
Low Carbon Hub
Share offer to invest in community-owned clean energy projects and help accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon energy system
Kings Heath Community Centre
Share offer to help fund the takeover and running of Kings Heath Community Centre
Bath & West Community Energy
Share offer to expand community-owned renewable energy projects and create local benefits for people and the environment
Hengistbury Head Outdoors
Share offer to breathe new life into the beloved activity centre at Hengistbury Head.
The White Lion Ash Community Pub
Share offer to bring the community together to save The White Lion as a thriving social hub and preserve its place at the heart of village life
The Ship Inn, Portloe
Share offer to save The Ship Inn and bring it into community ownership
Friends of the Ivy
Share off to save The Ivy Inn, Wiltshire, through a community offer run by Friends of The Ivy
Leeds Community Sauna Limited
Share offer to support a community-owned sauna in Leeds, creating an accessible and nature-inspired wellness space for everyone
Higham Community Benefit Society
Share offer to empower the local community to own and transform the closed Oddfellows Arms into a vibrant community hub
Humshaugh Community Solar Project
Share offer to fund a solar energy project on local land, generating clean electricity for the community and helping reduce carbon emissions
Greater Manchester Community Renewables
Share offer to fund new solar panel installations on local schools and a leisure centre, supporting community-owned renewable energ
Energise South Downs
Share offer to support local community-owned solar energy and help create a greener future
Bovey Paradiso Arts
Share off to help complete Bovey Paradiso Arts, supporting its final push to open as a vibrant cultural centre for the community
Hammersmith and Fulham Community Energy
Share offer to support community ownership of solar energy in Hammersmith & Fulham through local investment.
Wylderne Limited
Share offer to secure and restore the Wilderness Centre — protecting its future, reconnecting people with nature, and returning it to community ownership.
The Amulet Centre
Share offer to bring the Amulet Theatre back to life – and help transform the heart of Shepton Mallet
The Prince’s Motto Barrow Gurney
Share offer launched to save The Prince's Motto and secure its future as a community-owned pub and vibrant local hub
Rossendale Valley Energy
Share offer to fund a community-owned rooftop solar array at Interfloor in Haslingden, cutting carbon, generating clean energy, and benefiting the Rossendale community.
Music Venue Properties
Share offer to raise funds for the purchase of additional Grassroots Music Venues (GMVs), with the aim of transferring ownership to a landlord committed to their preservation, conservation, and the support of the grassroots music scene
Cheriton Fitzpaine Community Shop
Share offer to purchase the Chapel and create an expanded shop-café with arts, heritage, and community library spaces
The Globe Great Torrington
A share offer to save The Globe — a heritage building — from dereliction, create jobs for local people, and establish a vibrant hotel in the heart of Great Torrington
SaveEnergy
Share offer launched for essential operating capital to help train more local people, deliver services, and sustain new business throughout 2025
Birmingham Friends of the Earth
Share offer launched to reduce their carbon footprint and drive positive environmental change
Community Energy Newham
Share offer launched to give London’s communities the power to create, control and benefit from renewable energy
Headingly Development Trust
Share offer launched to develop initiatives that promote and sustain Headingly
The Fox Inn at Ryton
Share offer launched to secure a much loved public house and bring it back as a vibrant, inclusive and sustainable community pub.
Bourne End Junior Sports Club
Share offer launched to provide education, sport and recreation to young people.
Genuig Community Inn
Share offer launched to transition the Glenuig Inn into community ownership
Croydon Community Energy
Share offer launched to support community-backed renewable energy, efficiency projects, and education in the borough
Babbinswood Farm
Share offer to save Babbinswood Organic Farm & grow their community hub
Go-op Co-operative
Share offer to reduce the social and environmental impacts of travel by providing high-quality, inclusive public transport services that encourage sustainable options.
Cockfields Village Group
A share offer to establish a community hub in Cockfields Village
Kirtlington Community Shop and Cafe
A share offer to establish a community-run shop and café that benefits the entire village community.
EMERGE Manchester
Share offer to shape a greener, more sustainable Northwest.
The Crediton Community Bookshop Ltd
Share offer to expand the project's range and impact on the community
The Framsden Greyhound
Share offer to create a welcoming and active community-hub
Bramley Baths
Share offer to restore the baths for the community
Barford Tigers
Promote community participation in healthy recreation for the benefit of the inhabitants of Birmingham and surrounding areas
The Swan Community Project
Share offer to help save the Swan on the Green
Nympsfield Community Pub Limited (Rose and Crown)
Reopening the Rose & Crown Inn as a community-owned pub
Forum Music Studios
Share offer to refurbish a community owned music venue in Darlington
Coalville C.A.N.
Share offer to buy their community building
Brockweir Inn
Fundraising to buy the last pub in Brockweir in Monmouthshire and run it as a community owned business
Two Queens
Two Queens is the independent art gallery and studios at the heart of Leicester’s Cultural Quarter
Chichester Bike Project
Investment to create a thriving local bike workshop and social hub
Three Seas Cornwall
Bringing 11 coastguard flats in Looe back to life as energy efficient affordable community housing
Grimsby Community Energy
Open share offer from Grimsby Community Energy aiming to reach one megawatt of community owned solar PV by 2026
Friends of The Wesley Otley Limited
Community buy-out and transformation of the former Otley Methodist Church into a community hub
Ashton Hayes Community Hub Limited
Community plan to buy and restore the Golden Lion pub in Ashton Hayes, Chester
Miners Arms Community Pub Limited
Community buy-out of the Miners Arms pub in Nenthead, Cumbria
Cleeve Prior Community Pub
Community buy-out of the Kings Arms in Cleeve Prior
GlenWyvis Distillery Community Benefit Society
Third share offer to support the continuing development of GlenWyvis Distillery Community Benefit Society and the local community of Dingwall
The Black Lion Community Group Limited
Community buy-out of the Black Lion Pub in Ireby. the oldest market town in Cumberland with a charter dating back to 1236
Kingsbarns Community Benefit Society Limited
Community buy-out of the Inn at Kingsbarns to serve as a much-needed Community Hub, including a shop, café, pub, and restaurant
Fadmoor Community Pub
To bring the Plough Inn in Fadmoor into community ownership
Nadder Community Energy
Their third share offer, putting solar panels on six schools in their area
Hull Community Pub Society
Hull's first community owned pub - The New Clarence

2023

Hook Norton Community Land Trust
Affordable housing project in Hook Norton
Soul Farm
To bring Soul Farm, Falmouth's market garden into community ownership and expand their offering
Stretford Public Hall
Second share offer to invest in the ongoing renovation of the thriving community hub
East Boldre Community Stores Limited
Purchase of old chapel to preserve the local shop and post office
Myddleton Road Community Benefit Society Limited
Purchase and revival of a derelict community pub in London
Sister Midnight Community Venues Limited
On a mission to open Lewisham’s first community owned live music venue
Kindling Farm Limited
Purchase of a community farm between Manchester & Liverpool
Carrickfergus Community Greengrocer Limited
A new-start community greengrocers in Northern Ireland
Tollesbury Climate Partnership Limited
Raising investment to decarbonise a primary school in Essex
Maid Energy
Renewable energy projects in Maidenhead
Leeds Action to Create Homes Limited
Purchase, repair and of affordable housing and upskilling people in Leeds
Grimsby Community Energy
Raising investment for solar installations in Grimsby
Mustard Seed Property Limited
Housing to support vulnerable adults in Cornwall
Limpley Stoke Community Benefit Society Limited
Buying the Hop Pole - the last pub in Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire
Dane Valley Community Energy - Congleton Solar
Following a successful hydro project, a new offer in solar power in the Dane Valley
York Supplies Limited
The community buying a privately run hardware shop in Birmingham
Leeds Community Homes
Developing 34 new affordable and energy efficient new homes in Armley.
Bowden Pillars Future Limited
123acres of regenerative community farmland in Totnes, Devon
Clynfyw Community Benefit Society
Bringing Clynfyw care farm into community ownership
Drewsteignton Community Pub
Drewe Arms Community Pub
The Bell at Pensax Community Pub Limited
Buying and reopening the Bell Pub at Pensax, Worcestershire
Brontë Birthplace Limited
Community ownership of Grade II-listed Yorkshire house where the Bronte sisters were born
Bath and West Community Energy Limited
Raising investment for community owned roof top solar
The Arcade Group Dewsbury Limited
Community ownership of historic arcade shopping centre in Dewsbury
Stockwood Community Benefit Society Limited
Fourth share offer for community owned biodynamic farm and business park
Scottish Co-operative Discovery Centre Limited
A hands-on, experiential AND FUN Discovery & Learning Centre based around Co-operative Heritage
Fox and Goose Co-operative Pub Hebden Bridge
An open share offer to expand their membership
Cotherstone Old Chapel project
Shop, cafe and heritage centre
Weston SOS Limited
To maintain a post office and shop facility within Weston-on-the- Green Oxfordshire as a hub for the community.
Fromehall Mill
To bring Fromehall Mill into community ownership as a community and local business hub
East Harptree - Save the Waldegrave Arms
To save the Waldegrave Arms pub and bring into community ownership
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