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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