Spring is a time of change and growth and here at the Hive we are on a real drive to change the structure of how things are done here.The ultimate objective is to get more people living on the land on a permanent basis. Over the past five years, eight individuals have donated us money. People gave between £1000 and £8000 which proved really helpful in allowing us to procure property and get the project up and running. We are now looking at moving the Hive into the next chapter of its existance. One of the main priorities here is re-building the ruins that exist already in the village, but in order to do this, we need more funding. So we are researching various legal structures which would entitle us to apply for bigger grants. We are considering a non profit-making legal structure such as a cooperative which would widen the net for future funding. One of the main advantages of a cooperative would be to enable the Hive to register the most important land and buildings, giving them communal ownership and security for the future. This would give shared responsibility for the Hive to members of the cooperative. To help us achieve these goals, we are running an initial three month trial period from April 3rd to July 3rd. This will act as a thinktank; a time to generate ideas and run feasibility studies. We will crowdfund in order to keep the flow of funding coming to enable all initiatives started to be realised in the following year. All of our ethical investors have shown their support of this initiative, and a big shout goes out to the two that have secured two thirds of the loan needed for the trial period. We just need a final investor to lend us £1000 to help us achieve our objectives and we are confident that we can achieve our goals.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:41:17 +0000
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