Community Shares Booster Fund 🚀 The Community Shares Booster Fund will be closing its current round in early 2025. The fund provides an opportunity for community businesses in England to secure financial support for launching community share issues. The fund offers various forms of support, including: ▪️ Pre-grant support: Assisting early-stage exploration. ▪️ Development grants: Ranging from £2,000 to £15,000 (typically around £5,000), covering essential costs like financial planning, governance, and marketing. ▪️ Equity match investment: From £10,000 to £100,000, matching funds raised by the community. ▪️ Subscription underwriting: Interest-free loans for community investors to buy shares through instalments. ▪️ Loan finance: Available from Co-operative and Community Finance (CCF). The fund prioritises disadvantaged communities and projects addressing critical needs such as climate change and digital inclusion. The deadlines for applications are 27 November 2024 for equity match applications and 29 January 2025 for development grant applications. Find out more here https://lnkd.in/ewrxHwib #Coop #CommunityShares #CommunityBusiness #BusinessSupport #Funding
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COMMUNITY SHARES 💸 | Last year we relaunched the Booster Fund for #CommunityShares alongside CooperativesUK and Access, backing community investment that positively impacts people’s lives. #CommunityShares empower people to invest in the organisations and assets that serve their communities, making them co-owners and giving them a say in how the business is run. This in turn helps the business raise finance flexibly and affordably. From the community share Booster Fund we found: 💰 For every £1 invested in 2023, an additional £9.30 was leveraged from the community 🏗️ 50% of equity investments through the Booster Fund went to the most deprived communities in England (in the wider market, this is only 12%) Take a look into some of the stories from the Community Shares Unit 👇 https://lnkd.in/eBjvtdmx
"Busiest year ever for supporting community shares" – 2023 Impact Report published
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COO of On Point Strategy | Retired USAF Intelligence Officer | 8a, HUBZone, EDWOSB, MBE, DBE
Empowering Futures... Every successful grant, every well-managed fund, tells a story of lives changed. When we manage resources, whether they come from federal grants or local initiatives, we’re not just handling numbers. We’re creating opportunities, empowering futures, and building the foundations for communities to thrive. In our experience, the most powerful stories of impact come not from the grand gestures but from the small, consistent steps taken every day. A school in need of resources finally gets the funding it deserves. A family on the brink of losing everything receives support that turns their lives around. These are the stories that fuel our work. Our approach to grants management is simple: every dollar has a purpose, and that purpose is to change lives. By managing resources effectively, we help ensure that the future is bright for the communities we serve. What’s the story your business is writing today? How are you using your resources to empower the futures of others? #EmpoweringFutures #GrantsManagement #CommunityImpact #PurposeDriven
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Founder & Chief Visionary Officer @ On Point Strategy | Educator | Grantpreneur | 2024 SBA Women-Owned Small Business of the Year | INC Female Founders Honoree |GS10KSB/EO Puerto Rico
“Our approach to grants management is simple: every dollar has a purpose, and that purpose is to change lives. By managing resources effectively, we help ensure that the future is bright for the communities we serve.” #GrantsManagement #PurposeDriven #FederalFunding #CommunityImpact #OnPointStrategy
COO of On Point Strategy | Retired USAF Intelligence Officer | 8a, HUBZone, EDWOSB, MBE, DBE
Empowering Futures... Every successful grant, every well-managed fund, tells a story of lives changed. When we manage resources, whether they come from federal grants or local initiatives, we’re not just handling numbers. We’re creating opportunities, empowering futures, and building the foundations for communities to thrive. In our experience, the most powerful stories of impact come not from the grand gestures but from the small, consistent steps taken every day. A school in need of resources finally gets the funding it deserves. A family on the brink of losing everything receives support that turns their lives around. These are the stories that fuel our work. Our approach to grants management is simple: every dollar has a purpose, and that purpose is to change lives. By managing resources effectively, we help ensure that the future is bright for the communities we serve. What’s the story your business is writing today? How are you using your resources to empower the futures of others? #EmpoweringFutures #GrantsManagement #CommunityImpact #PurposeDriven
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The Ireland Funds have launched their Heart of the Communities Fund. The Heart of the Community Fund is an open grant round designed to meet the needs of not-for-profit organisations delivering vital services and supports to people across the island of Ireland. The Ireland Funds recognises the challenges organisations face in securing funding to build their capacity or meet their core costs, so the Heart of the Community Fund 2024 will provide Organisational Investment Grants. The application form will enable you to share what you’re working towards and how you deliver on your mission, so we can get a picture of your organisation as a whole. If your application is successful, you can then allocate the funding to meet your most pressing needs
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Did you know, 🧐 every time you share your profile link from the Feenix website your activity score increases and you stand a better chance to receive funding from the Feenix Pool Fund. 🚀 If you are a registered student on the Feenix platform and you have any question feel free to contact [email protected]. ✨📚 #AccessForAllWithFeenix #FeenixCommunity #Feenix #EducationMatters
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Good progress today on securing the next tranche of Dormant Assets to enable finance to flow the charities and social enterprises who most need it. The Government has recommitted to an equal split of the £350m across the four causes over the next four years. That means that £87.5m will flow to social investment wholesalers. Of this £12.5m will support improved outcomes for young people - something in which social investment has a strong track record already. The next step is the publication of the Dormant Assets Strategy which will outline more details about how the money will be used in each of the four spend areas. We hope that this will focus on the priorities defined in the Community Enterprise Growth Plan and are working closely on this with officials in DCMS. https://lnkd.in/eGP8FivE
Dormant Assets Scheme: Allocating £350 million for England
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Another step forward on #DormantAssets today - huge thanks to partners across business, civil society, philanthropy, social investment, enterprise support and social enterprise sectors for continuing to bang the drum on this.
Good progress today on securing the next tranche of Dormant Assets to enable finance to flow the charities and social enterprises who most need it. The Government has recommitted to an equal split of the £350m across the four causes over the next four years. That means that £87.5m will flow to social investment wholesalers. Of this £12.5m will support improved outcomes for young people - something in which social investment has a strong track record already. The next step is the publication of the Dormant Assets Strategy which will outline more details about how the money will be used in each of the four spend areas. We hope that this will focus on the priorities defined in the Community Enterprise Growth Plan and are working closely on this with officials in DCMS. https://lnkd.in/eGP8FivE
Dormant Assets Scheme: Allocating £350 million for England
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💼 Are you in a small, northern or rural community looking to stimulate economic growth? Why are you leaving money on the table? The CanExport Community Investments program can be your game-changer. Get access to non-repayable grants between $3,000 and $500,000 to bolster FDI and drive innovation. 👥 Revitalize your regions by attracting new business and talent. 🔎 Apply between November 4-29, 2024! Reach out to discuss your plans and explore how Ignite Development Agency can help. #FDI #InvestmentAttraction #RuralDevelopment #CommunityGrowth See link in comments below.
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The checker is a really useful to tool to help you work out whether your idea is a good fit for the new Challenge fund. Play around with it and read the feedback to your answers. If having done this you think you're a good match for the Challenge, sign up for a workshop for applicants to learn more about the Fund.
Jane Holmes, Head of Grant Programmes at Ufi, explains why you should try our eligibility checker for the Impact Network + Grant Fund. Applications are now open until 8 July for grant funding of £200K-£250K and to join an expert-led impact network. Interested in applying? Take the eligibility checker and attend a pre-application workshop 👉 https://lnkd.in/eqekMEz Find out more about the Impact Network + Grant Fund 👉https://lnkd.in/dMc7zWn #VocTech #GetAdultsLearning #Grants #EdTech #Skills
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I’m delighted to announce the first nine projects to receive a share of £12 million in National Lottery funding from The UK Fund – one of our bold commitments as part of our new strategy, It starts with community. Our investment in communities is designed to strengthen society and improve lives across the UK. Key to this is our community-led mission to support communities to come together. These grants will play a role in strengthening relationships between people with different life experiences and backgrounds, and are a significant step forward in our commitment to distributing at least £4 billion to communities by 2030. Today, we have released our Community Research Index report, which highlights how important it is for people to feel part of their community and play a role in shaping its future. Thanks to National Lottery players, this vital investment through The UK Fund means even more people will have opportunities to connect and create transformational change in their communities. Find out more about The UK Fund projects, benefiting communities from Glasgow to Kent, Bradford to Birmingham to Bedford. 👇 https://ow.ly/Ki5O50R6Jg2 Read our Community Research Index report to explore people’s priorities and aspirations for their local community. 👇 https://ow.ly/zfqq50R6JFP
