Facebook-f Twitter Instagram Linkedin-in

800-123-4567

About Us
About Community Shares
Book an appointment

Search

Get a Quote

About Us
About Community Shares
Book an appointment

About Us
About Community Shares
Book an appointment

About Us
Contact Us

crowdfunderbanner2

Home
Crowdfunder and Community Shares #ownedbythecrowd
crowdfunderbanner2

crowdfunderbanner2Dave Boyle2015-06-08T13:15:15+00:00

X

Pub

Jubilee Pool Penzance

£829,000

2018

Jubilee Pool is a tidal-filled outdoor pool on the Penzance seafront in Cornwall. Previously owned by the County Council, we were commissioned to give them options for accessing an EU-funded grant to give them geothermal heat. This was crucial to making the pool operate year-round, but need £1.8M of funding. We recommended the pre-existing 'Friends of Jubilee Pool' be reconstituted as a Charitable Community Benefit Society and undertake a community share issue. We worked with the new society to amass their funding package with a mixture of grants, and loans and then helped them launch their share issue in 2018 to raise the final £500,000. They smashed through their target, raising £529,000 (which they followed up with a second share issue to rebuild their cash flow after the pandemic) from 1,400 shareholders. They cleverly used tax breaks and share interest to attract major investors, and just 24 people provided 75% of their total, with 1,000 investors paying the minimum £25 membership.

X

Venue

Music Venue Properties

£2,200,000

2023

The Music Venue Trust - the trade association for small and medium-sized music venues - had long recognised the ticking timebomb affecting the sector that came from so many venues renting their premises from owners who could make the venues unworkable through rent rises or refusing to renew leases. There had been long-standing intentions to create a sector-owned body to buy the premises and be the friendly landlord who could give certainty to venue operators about the future position, and help with rent holidays if future public health emergencies forced venues to close. We worked with the team at MVT to create a new entity, Music Venue Properties, which was a subsidiary of MVT which then sought funds to buy venues. MVP's share offer launched in 2022 and closed a year later after raising £2.2m and going onto buy 7 venues cross the UK.

X

Media

New Internationalist

£700,000

2017

New Internationalist had been publishing its informative, critical journalism about global inequality and justice since the 1970s. Needing to come up with a compelling new design and reimagined content to respond to the challenge of the internet, they turned to their community of current and former subscribers with a campaign to raise working capital in 2017 and in so doing ended up promoting themselves to a whole new generation for whom their writing was fresh, vibrant and urgent. The community now co-own the publication, but day-to-day management and editorial production is solely in the hands of the workers. They went back to the community and raised a further £300,000 during the pandemic when advertising revenues took a nosedive.

X

Housing

Jubilee Pool Penzance 4

£229,000

2010

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Phasellus vestibulum lorem sed risus ultricies tristique nulla aliquet enim. Orci porta non pulvinar neque. Ipsum nunc aliquet bibendum enim. Diam phasellus vestibulum lorem sed risus ultricies tristique nulla aliquet. Eget felis eget nunc lobortis mattis. Platea dictumst quisque sagittis purus sit amet volutpat consequat. Id ornare arcu odio ut sem nulla pharetra diam sit. Nunc pulvinar sapien et ligula. Nibh tellus molestie nunc non blandit massa enim nec dui. Sit amet venenatis urna cursus eget nunc scelerisque. Pellentesque pulvinar pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et. Lectus urna duis convallis convallis tellus id interdum.

X

Media

Jubilee Pool Penzance 5

£529,000

2017

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Phasellus vestibulum lorem sed risus ultricies tristique nulla aliquet enim. Orci porta non pulvinar neque. Ipsum nunc aliquet bibendum enim. Diam phasellus vestibulum lorem sed risus ultricies tristique nulla aliquet. Eget felis eget nunc lobortis mattis. Platea dictumst quisque sagittis purus sit amet volutpat consequat. Id ornare arcu odio ut sem nulla pharetra diam sit. Nunc pulvinar sapien et ligula. Nibh tellus molestie nunc non blandit massa enim nec dui. Sit amet venenatis urna cursus eget nunc scelerisque. Pellentesque pulvinar pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et. Lectus urna duis convallis convallis tellus id interdum.

X

Service

Jubilee Pool Penzance 6

£625,000

2019

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Phasellus vestibulum lorem sed risus ultricies tristique nulla aliquet enim. Orci porta non pulvinar neque. Ipsum nunc aliquet bibendum enim. Diam phasellus vestibulum lorem sed risus ultricies tristique nulla aliquet. Eget felis eget nunc lobortis mattis. Platea dictumst quisque sagittis purus sit amet volutpat consequat. Id ornare arcu odio ut sem nulla pharetra diam sit. Nunc pulvinar sapien et ligula. Nibh tellus molestie nunc non blandit massa enim nec dui. Sit amet venenatis urna cursus eget nunc scelerisque. Pellentesque pulvinar pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et. Lectus urna duis convallis convallis tellus id interdum.

X

Venue

Jubilee Pool Penzance 7

£825,000

2016

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Phasellus vestibulum lorem sed risus ultricies tristique nulla aliquet enim. Orci porta non pulvinar neque. Ipsum nunc aliquet bibendum enim. Diam phasellus vestibulum lorem sed risus ultricies tristique nulla aliquet. Eget felis eget nunc lobortis mattis. Platea dictumst quisque sagittis purus sit amet volutpat consequat. Id ornare arcu odio ut sem nulla pharetra diam sit. Nunc pulvinar sapien et ligula. Nibh tellus molestie nunc non blandit massa enim nec dui. Sit amet venenatis urna cursus eget nunc scelerisque. Pellentesque pulvinar pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et. Lectus urna duis convallis convallis tellus id interdum.