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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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Apply to the Booster Fund

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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.

Community shares report 2023: Communities doing it for themselves

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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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Reading Hydro: A renewable energy venture, powered by the community

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Discover how a group of people turned a green energy idea into reality, by raising finance through community share offers.

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Stokes Croft Land Trust: Keeping local assets in the hands of local people

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When the area that spawned street artist Banksy came under threat from price-hiking property developers, a group stepped in and bought a building to offer affordable space to local creatives,…

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York Supplies: Continuing the legacy of a ‘kind place’ to shop

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When a local trader decided to retire, customers of his much-loved Birmingham store rallied round to preserve it as a valued community hub.

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Zion Bristol: Keeping a vital resource at the heart of a community

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Thanks to a community share offer, a local café and hub can continue life as home to a wide range of groups, activities and essential support for those in need…

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Mustard Seed Property: Making space for people to flourish

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More than £1 million in community shares have been raised to create safe and supportive homes for vulnerable adults and those at risk of homelessness in the South West.

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