January 2021 Mike Lowe, one of the MSP directors, reflects on the 2020 share offer and the organisation’s ambitious and exciting plans moving forward. Despite the many unknowns at the peak of the first pandemic lockdown, Mustard Seed Property (MSP) launched its 2020 community share offer. We had no Read more
October 2020 Like us, there are a number of other community-led organisations in Devon and Cornwall, and from time to time each of us have a campaign to expand our membership and raise share capital. One of the seven co-operative principles is to be ‘co-operative amongst co-operatives’. So we are wanting to Read more
October 2020 MSP Director Mike Lowe, discusses what happens next in our Redruth Property Yes, our newest scheme in Redruth has received planning permission, so all system are go! Our client Karrek Community CIC, a domiciliary support group in Cornwall, has been eagerly anticipating the start of the refurbishment that Read more
8 October 2020 The community share offer for Cornwall based social enterprise, Mustard Seed Property (MSP), has reached a first close of £330,000. MSP now has over 200 investors. The share offer has raised over £330,000 (to date) of its £600,000 target, to house vulnerable adults in Cornwall. The capital Read more
18 September 2020 How’s The Share Offer Doing? Extended to 30 November – further opportunity to invest We’re over halfway to reaching our target of £600,000 for the Mustard Seed Property’s latest community share offer. Reaching the halfway mark of just over £300,000 is a massive milestone and it has Read more
August 2020 Like us, there are a number of other community-led organisations in Devon and Cornwall, and from time to time each of us have a campaign to expand our membership and raise share capital. One of the seven co-operative principles is to be ‘co-operative amongst co-operatives’. So we are Read more
Karrek Community’s co-founder Geeta Ashton gives an update of how Karrek has managed to continue to provide its much needed services during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020 has proved to be an eventful year for Karrek Community. During the lockdown we continued to remain active and provided support for people for Read more
25 August 2020 Co-operatives UK (with funding provided by The Architectural Heritage Fund) has pledged a £50,000 investment to Mustard Seed Property’s latest community share offer, via the ‘Community Shares Booster Programme1’. This innovative “match funding” has meant that the share offer has already raised over £278,0002 of its £600,000 target, to house Read more
April 2020 Daniel Brewer shares the latest news from Mustard Seed Property – including their latest property purchase and social impact report. I’m very excited to announce that MSP has finally managed to complete the purchase of its latest property right in the heart of Redruth. Contracts were signed, ‘social Read more
April 2018 Mustard Seed Property (MSP) has launched an exciting new share offer, which seeks to raise funds to purchase a property that will provide urgent support for vulnerable adults with learning disabilities. The latest share offer is off the back of MSP successfully raising £300,000 in 2007, from local Read more