⚡️It's back!

Our new practitioner training is now live.

This is a great opportunity to learn all about the basics of community shares and all the technical details too.

Find out more and secure your place now >> uk.coop/events-and-tra…

What you’ll get:
✅ 7 expert-led sessions
✅ A cohort of peers to learn and network with
✅ Pre- and post-session reading
✅ The chance to complete assessments and become a Registered practitioner
✅ One year’s free @CooperativesUK Supporter membership

🏠New share offer from Two Up Two Down in #Liverpool for community led housing to 'Buy Back #Anfield, Brick By Brick'!

🧱Check them out here - invest.twouptwodown.org.uk

👩‍👧‍👧Make the most of your members!

Expert training on effective engagement, especially for after you have run a community share offer.

Learn from others and come and ask any questions.

7th Oct online 👇
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Its all about making the most of your members!

Hear from @nudgecommunity and Music Venues Properties and engagement expert Steffi Joy

@Plunkett_UK @coop_finance

Free online training: Community Shares Finance Guide - managing community share capital.
Next Thursday online, book now!
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We're joining our partners in celebrating ten years of the Community Shares Booster Fund. This milestone is marked by the announcement of a dedicated successor investment fund from lead partner, Co-operatives UK. 📝

Learn more ➡️ plunkett.co.uk/community-shar…

This unique form of social investment has been 'existential' for getting many projects moving and catalysing further investment.
Read more here:
uk.coop/resources/repo…

..and Booster has enabled more communities to succeed, with a focus on less affluent communities, helping them to attract further investment to their projects

Often communities without a track record struggle to attract loan finance and grant funding, but are finding community shares are the obvious way to get a project started.
Read the report to find out more!
uk.coop/resources/repo…

Celebrating 10 years of our Booster Fund supporting & investing in community share offers:

📈 £5m invested in 98 share offers

📷 £20m unlocked from more than 26,000 community investors 📷

🚀 184 development grants awarded to enable share offers to launch

🎉 Read our new report celebrating 10 years of the @ComShares Booster Fund’s huge impact in kick-starting community regeneration. The report shows how community shares have helped people across England save local assets, boost localities & build stronger local economies.🧵 (1/5)

We are finalising the next cohort of Community Shares Practitioner Training for 2026-27.
Full details will go in in email newsletter, sign up here:
linktr.ee/comshares

@CooperativesUK @Plunkett_UK

it will cover:
-community engagement
-governance
-biz planning + financials
-documentation development
-the Standard Mark
-managing the share capital post-raise

And gives you the confidence, building blocks and qualifications to start supporting communities to explore, consider, prepare and launch a succesfull community share offer

From our friends at @cwmpas.bsky.social this free webinar 'How to Market a Share Offer' next week

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Latest email newsletter on all things community shares has gone out, check it out here if you missed it
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🔆Tomorrow we have a FREE @CooperativesUK
webinar on The Power of Community Energy.

Come along and learn about co-ops creating and running community energy projects, inc hearing from some co-operators themselves!

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