The CSU is a joint initiative between Co-operatives UK and Locality. Our objectives are to raise awareness of community shares as a sustainable funding mechanism, support community-owned businesses, and promote good practice in the use of community shares equity capital.
Objectives
The objectives of 2020+ are to continue to:
- Grow the understanding of the co-op option and the huge potential of community ownership models via the community shares mechanism, to bring these ideas into the mainstream
- Lobby a range of national and regional government departments to better understand the opportunities in supporting community owned businesses
- Protect the reputation of this unique, unregulated financial tool by continuing to support communities to develop high standard share offers and develop sustainable business models by following the Community Shares Standard Mark framework
- Enable more individuals and communities to co-own their own community wealth building agenda, partially via the match function of the Booster Programme
http://communityshares.org.uk/
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