Recovery Share Offers Guidance

Community shares give community businesses additional solvency, compared with other businesses that are more reliant on debt finance. Your community and your members have a vested interest in the purpose of their societies, and will support measures to protect its employees, volunteers, assets and share capital.

Co-operatives UK has information on how insolvency reforms could help co-ops survive crises. The sister guidance note to this Recovery Share Offer guidance is Guidance for societies facing financial strife. These guides were developed as a reaction to the pandemic but the key principles are broadly applicable.