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Community Supported Agriculture An overview of the use of Community Finance in CSA in England Mark Simmonds Co-op Culture Co-op Culture mark@culture.coop Financing CSAs Prepayment model is useful Land is expensive to buy Grants

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Community Supported Agriculture

An overview of the use of Community Finance in CSA in England Mark Simmonds Co-op Culture

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Financing CSAs

  • Prepayment model is useful
  • Land is expensive to buy

– Grants – Loans – Community shares

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Community Shares

  • Surge in their use in recent years
  • Use the Industrial and Provident Society legal

form

  • People can invest up to £20,000
  • One member one vote
  • Can pay a return on investment
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Rise in community shares

20 40 60 80 100 120

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It's not just agriculture

Creative and media; 2% Pubs and Brewing; 15% CLT and Housing; 3% Regeneration and development; 7% Community Retail; 24% Other; 2% Transport; 2% Social Care; 2% Energy and Environment; 33% Sports; 3% Food and Farming; 8%

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Fordhall Farm

  • 1 farmer, 8,000 landlords
  • England's first community owned farm (2006)
  • Exempt charity
  • Land Trust not a Farm Business
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Ecological Land Co-op

  • Small-scale sustainable land use
  • Multi-stakeholder co-operative

– Investors – Workers – Stewards

  • About to launch a new share offer.
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Whistlewood Common

  • 10 acre community forest
  • Inspired by Melbourne Area Transition
  • Just about to purchase land
  • ½ funded by grant
  • Unsure of business model at moment
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The Community Farm

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Key features of Community Investment

  • Ideally - needs to be a business
  • Can reinforce “customer loyalty”
  • “Patient capital”
  • Potential to share profits
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What's on the horizon?

  • UK Network of CSAs
  • Farm Start
  • Not just England
  • Transition Towns
  • Incredible Edible
  • Totally Locally
  • Renewables
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