Our vision as a community social care co-operative is to blend a quality home care service with a vibrant volunteer-based community programme which will allow people using our service to live life better. We have now received a tremendous endorsement from people in the Colne Valley with our Community Share Offer raising the £150,000 start …
Recruiting for a Registered Manager The Covid 19 Crisis has proved that we need a better sort of domiciliary social care. More holistic and person centred. One that moves beyond providing just basic care and allows people to lead fuller lives. One that treats care professionals with the respect. The crisis has also revealed the …
A big welcome and thank-you to all of our new investor members. We are proud to be able to announce that with your help our Community Share Offer has been a great success. We have reached our target and now have the start-up capital we need to launch our innovative new Care Co-op! We were …
We are really pleased to say that Milnsbridge Village Hall has become an institutional investor in our community share offer. Robin Beaumont, Chair of Milnsbridge Village Hall told us “We are proud to support Co-operative Care Colne Valley in its ambition to provide top quality home-based care. The aim to recruit well-paid carers locally and …
Yesterday evening we hosted a special Zoom conference call and invited supporters, investors and most importantly potential investors to join in, meet a few of our board members and get their questions answered about our vision and plans for the business, and about our Community Share Offer. We had a great mix of people joining …
A small number of investors in our Community Shares Offer have been in touch to let us know that when making their payment they’ve been alerted by their bank that our account “can’t be verified” or words to that effect. In somer instances we understand that their bank has informed them that if they proceed …
Our Community Share Offer is live. We have published our Business Plan and Share Offer Document. We had originally planned to hold local events in Marsden, Slaithwaite, and Milnsbridge to enable more people to learn about the Community Share Offer, and get answers to their questions. Because of Covid-19 we’re not able to do that, …
We have been busy spreading the word about our innovative model of Community Co-operative Care with people in the co-operative movement and amongst local authorities. Here is a film – actually a presentation with accompanying voiceover from our Chair, Richard Murgatroyd – delivered to Co-operative Councillors last month.It sets out our vision and practical approach. …
Read moreNew presentation: our innovative model of Community Co-operative Care
About three weeks or so ago we kicked off a campaign to build local awareness of our plan to raise all-important start-up finance using a community share issue. We asked people to give a pledge and specify an amount that they would invest once the share issue went live. It’s fair to say that we’ve …
We are now at the stage of asking potential community investors to help us launch our exciting new care co-operative, firmly based on proven principles of fairness, sustainability and community benefits. Everyone (you!) can do that by pledging support. Why do we need pledges? Well, like any business, our co-op needs startup capital to get up and …
Read moreLaunching the Pledge stage of our Community Share Offer