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Apply to the Booster Fund for business development grants and equity match-funding for your community share offer.

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The Community Shares Booster Fund is a funding scheme to support community share offers.

Booster Fund – application guidance

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Communities doing it for themselves – new report reveals £210 million raised through community shares

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New report reveals that, to date, £210 million has been invested to create or save vital assets or services across the UK using community shares.

Communities doing it for themselves – community shares report 2023

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It has been a decade since the Community Shares Unit launched in 2012 with over £210 million raised using this unique form of finance.

£200 million has been raised through community shares by more than 126,000 people since 2012. We work to grow the community shares market through our leadership in best practice standards and investing in communities through the Booster Programme.

About community shares

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Hundreds of communities across the country have used community shares to save and create businesses that are important to them.

Case studies

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Kingsley Holt residents outside the space they saved

Kingsley Holt Centre: Saving a vital social space that connects the community

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When their local chapel closed, a group of Midlands villagers sprang into action to take over the building and retain it as a meeting place for everyone to enjoy…

6 days ago

Grimsby Community Energy: saving money and saving the planet

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Find out more about the co-op that’s tackling the climate and energy crises by installing solar panels, raising awareness and helping businesses become energy efficient…

11 days ago

Booster Fund – Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford

The Ultimate Picture Palace: A co-operative screen saver

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Discover what happened when a group of east Oxford residents sprang into action to keep a much-loved cultural venue at the heart of their community…

13 days ago

Booster Fund – Heptonstall Post Office & Community Shop

Heptonstall Post Office: Saving the ‘beating heart’ of a Yorkshire village

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When the threat of losing their local post office loomed, the people of Heptonstall formed a community benefit society to ensure it wasn’t turned into an Air BnB…

13 days ago

Group shot of the Friends of the Joiners Arms

Friends of the Joiners Arms – a ground-breaking community shares venture

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With pay-it-forward shares, a colourful campaign, celebrity backing and younger investors, the UK’s first LGBTQ venue share offer was a resounding, pioneering success…

3 months ago