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Introducing the Community Shares Unit

Introducing the Community Shares Unit. What is the Community Shares Unit?. What are community shares ? . “The sale of shares in enterprises serving a community purpose, with the aim of raising at least £10,000 in capital from no fewer than 20 members”. Powered by Withdrawable Share Capital.

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Introducing the Community Shares Unit

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  1. Introducing the Community Shares Unit

  2. What is the Community Shares Unit?

  3. What are community shares? “The sale of shares in enterprises serving a community purpose, with the aim of raising at least £10,000 in capital from no fewer than 20 members” Powered by Withdrawable Share Capital

  4. The benefits of community shares

  5. Community shares in pictures

  6. Case Study: Bell Inn, Bath

  7. Community shares over last five years There have been 153 community share offers compared to 108 flotations (or Initial Public Offerings) of UK listed companies in the last five years E&Y IPO Global Centre of Excellence

  8. Community shares market indicators: 2009 - 2013

  9. Key pillars of a successful share offer

  10. With growth comes ‘responsibility’ - the future work of the CSU CSU is working to develop the tools and structures that will support greater responsibility over quality for community share offers

  11. Market Intelligence

  12. Community Shares Handbook

  13. Practitioner training and accreditation

  14. Community Shares compliance “to establish and operate a kite mark or code which would support the adoption and diffusion of good practice of community share offers as part of a co-regulatory framework ”

  15. Introducing Microgenius CSU is running Microgenius as a pilot to explore the value of an online platform to host community share offers – since June 2013, six share offers have raised over £800,000

  16. Online Resources

  17. CSU and market development

  18. Get in touch www.communityshares.org.uk www.microgenius.org.uk communityshares@uk.coop

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