Community Shares: promoting enterprise, equity and engagement through community shares and bonds

With the gloomy economic climate being topic of choice in all sectors, community-owned enterprises and the Government are set to provide a shining light leading the way for communities across the country to create common wealth in their local areas and transform communities for good.

With investment from the Office of the Third Sector's Social Enterprise Action Learning Fund, the Department for Communities and Local Government is leading an action learning research programme in the field of community shares and bonds. The research programme will be managed by the Development Trusts Association (DTA), in conjunction with Co-operatives UK and the UK Social Return on Investment network (SROI).

Read more on the DTA website