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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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Community Shares Booster Fund Caistor & District Community Trust

Caistor and District Community Trust: Breathing life back into the heart of a market town

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A phenomenal £2.4 million has been raised through a community owned venture to restore historic buildings and revitalise a Lincolnshire town centre.

1 month ago

Flo’s – the happy place in the park that’s a community-owned success story

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Discover how a decommissioned children’s centre in Oxford was transformed into a busy, buzzy, welcoming place for all thanks to a dedicated group of people who formed a community benefit society...

3 months ago

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…

4 months 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…

4 months ago