{"id":3101,"date":"2016-09-19T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/?post_type=news_post&#038;p=3101"},"modified":"2021-08-02T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:15:14","slug":"1m-community-shares-programme-open-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/news\/1m-community-shares-programme-open-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a31m community shares programme open for applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uk.coop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Co-operatives UK<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/locality.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locality<\/a> and the Community Shares Unit (CSU), we set up <a href=\"http:\/\/communityshares.org.uk\/community-shares-booster-programme-0\">the Community Shares Booster Programme<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year to help community businesses explore this option. It will try and help established projects as well as those starting from scratch.<\/p>\n<p><em>As Power to Change&#8217;s Ged Devlin told Pioneers Post this week<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Successful applicants to the programme will get up to \u00a310,000 as a development grant to help launch their share offer, and then up to \u00a3100,000 in match-funding once the share offer goes live. In other words, every time someone decides they are up for investing in a local project, we will invest along with them.<\/p>\n<p>The market in community shares is already pretty sizeable (since 2009\u00a0nearly 100,000 people have invested over \u00a3100m to support 350 UK community businesses, <a href=\"http:\/\/communityshares.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/community_shares_-_inside_the_market_report_-_june_2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the CSU<\/a>). Now is the time to find out what further demand is out there and what more the market can deliver.<\/p>\n<p><em>Community businesses can <a href=\"http:\/\/communityshares.org.uk\/community-shares-booster-programme-0\">apply to the fund here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ged&#8217;s full Pioneers Post article is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pioneerspost.com\/news-views\/20160919\/community-shares-putting-our-money-where-our-mouth\">here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power to Change will match-fund \u00a3100,000 in community shares for local projects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[339],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}