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Latest Community Share Offer Raises Over £200k

July 2024 Mustard Seed Property is delighted that its most recent community share offer, which closed in June 2024, has raised £207,605. The raise also brings the total number of shareholders to over 300. The board is delighted that new sum raised will enable MSP to move forward with its plans to provide much needed accommodation for vulnerable people in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.    

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Update: Mustard Seed Property in Redruth

August 2023   Over the past year MSP directors and colleagues have been focusing on the delivery of our project in Redruth. This being our longest scheme in development, it has been met with a number of setbacks before reaching where we are today. Working with a local contractor, Irebuild, we are now six months into the property refurbishment and we are able to see the results of all the hard work. DURING REFURBISHMENT The Read more…

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Communities Like Us – Launceston Community Development Trust

Like Mustard Seed Property, there are a number of other community-led organisations that bring people together to own land and property. 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 introduce you to a different community-led organisation each time we do an update. Together we can build a community of Read more…

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New Community Share Offer will provide more homes for vulnerable people in Cornwall

Ben Wrigley, Senior Investment Manager in the Developing Communities Team at Resonance, has been leading the launch of the latest Mustard Seed Property Community Share Offer. In his blog, he talks about what’s been happening since the last raise and the organisation’s plans for the future. Mustard Seed Property (MSP) buys and refurbishes properties for its partners – charities and social enterprises – so they can provide space for vulnerable people to flourish across Cornwall Read more…

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Making space for vulnerable people to flourish across Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly

    In our latest video, Mustard Seed Property Director Susan Ackford and Adam Langer the Newquay Lighthouse Managing Director, explain how the new property that has been purchased and refurbished in Newquay will make a difference to the first eleven male residents. It explains the importance of having a quality building and environment to help the recovery of the residents many of whom have backgrounds of severe trauma, as well as how the partnership Read more…

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Communities Like Us – Stockwood Community Benefit Society

Like Mustard Seed Property, there are a number of other community-led organisations that bring people together to own land and property.  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 introduce you to a different community-led organisation each time we do an update. Together we can build a community Read more…

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Newquay Lighthouse Project – Up & Running

June 2022 MSP’s most recent partner is Newquay Lighthouse Project (NLP), an organisation formed to support adults seeking to maintain abstinence-based recovery from drugs and alcohol by using mutual aid fellowships. Last year we embarked on this process to find a suitable property for NLP, and we were quickly met with the post-pandemic housing market. Having seen a few potential properties sell quickly, we knew that we too would need to act swiftly. NLP’s founder, Adam Read more…

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Communities Like Us – East Marsh Community (EMC)

June 2022 Like us, there are a number of other community-led organisations in the UK, and from time to time each of us have a campaign to expand our membership and raise share capital. One of the co-operative principles is to be ‘co-operative amongst co-operatives’. So we are wanting to introduce you to a range of community-led organisation. Together we can build a community that shares a vision for a stronger, more inclusive future. East Read more…

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Helston Refurbishment

August 2021 After a year of complications and slow progress, we have finally finished the refurbishment at Godolphin. Our aim was always to improve both the safety and quality of the property for its residents and this has involved updating the bathroom, enhancing fire safety, and creating a pleasant, condensation free environment with a Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery (MVHR) system. The MVHR system, in particular, has a number of benefits: Savings on heating bills and Read more…

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