Number of investments in community shares in UK 2014

This statistic shows the share of investors in community shares in the United Kingdom (UK) by the number of investments made, according to a survey on the UK alternative finance market in 2014. Of investors surveyed, 78 percent had made only a single investment in community shares at that time.

Number of investments per investor in community shares within the United Kingdom (UK) alternative finance market as of 2014

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Single investment	78%
Two to three investments	15%
More than three	7%

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Release date

November 2014

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

March to September 2014

Special properties

primary industry figures as well as extensive surveys of businesses and consumers

Supplementary notes

The source defines community shares as "the withdrawable share capital, unique to co-operative and community benefit society legislation".

The source clarifies the methodology as follows: "Four stages of research activity were carried out from March to September 2014. (1) Stage one involved collecting primary transactional data directly from alternative finance platforms. (2) Stage two consisted of designing and distributing model-specific questionnaires to survey funders and fundraisers of alternative finance. In total 15,658 users were surveyed. (3) Stage three conducted in association with ACCA and PwC included two external national surveys to understand the level of awareness among consumers of alternative finance. 2,007 consumers and 506 SMEs were surveyed. (4) Stage four was the industry-wide tracking survey among UK crowdfunding associations and P2P associations to gather industrial figures for year 2014. Transactional data was collected for quarters one to three of 2014."

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