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  • Table of contents
  • About the Handbook
  • 1 Introduction to community shares
    • 1.1 Equity for social enterprises
    • 1.2 How community shares work
      • 1.2.1 Origins
      • 1.2.2 What are community shares?
      • 1.2.3 Shareholder motivation
      • 1.2.4 Return on investment
      • 1.2.5 Capital gains
      • 1.2.6 Shareholder influence
      • 1.2.7 Community interest companies
    • 1.3 The business model
    • 1.4 Starting points
      • 1.4.1 The initial stimulus
      • 1.4.2 Pre-start initiatives
      • 1.4.3 Acquisitions and buy-outs
      • 1.4.4 Start-ups
      • 1.4.5 Established social enterprises
    • 1.5 Institutional Investment
  • 2 Society legislation
    • 2.1 Types of societies
      • 2.1.1 Introduction
      • 2.1.2 Bona fide co-operative societies
      • 2.1.3 Community benefit societies
      • 2.1.4 Charitable community benefit societies
      • 2.1.5 Choosing between society types
    • 2.2 Share capital in societies
      • 2.2.1 Share typologies
      • 2.2.2 Withdrawable shares
      • 2.2.3 Transferable shares
      • 2.2.4 Non-user investor shares
      • 2.2.5 Membership shares and subscriptions
      • 2.2.6 Multiple classes of shares
      • 2.2.7 Sweat Equity
    • 2.3 Liquidity of withdrawable shares
    • 2.4 Asset lock provisions
    • 2.5 Debt
      • 2.5.1 Borrowing
      • 2.5.2 Bonds
      • 2.5.3 Loans and loan-stock
    • 2.6 Converting legal forms
      • 2.6.1 Converting a company into a society
      • 2.6.2 Converting a community interest company into a society