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) Read more…
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 Read more…
August 2021 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…
January 2021 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
September 2018
We are delighted to announce that for every £1 invested in Mustard Seed Property will now be matched by Andrews Charitable Trust (ACT) – getting us more quickly to the £300,000 target for a property which will provide long term housing for vulnerable adults with learning difficulties in Cornwall. This means that for every £1 invested, ACT will also invest £1, up to a maximum of £50,000, until the £300,000 target is reached.
Andrews Charitable Trust was established by Cecil Jackson-Cole, who was the original founder of Oxfam, andwhich owns 100% of the well known Estate Agency chain Andrews Property Group. Since they were founded in 1965, ACT have helped over 180 beneficiary charities, ranging from housing to health projects, both in the UK and Internationally.