Community shares: support beyond funding UK 2014

This statistic shows the support investors of community shares crowdfunding gave beyond funding within the United Kingdom (UK) alternative finance market in 2014. According to the survey, 57 percent of respondents also promoted the campaigns.

Did you support community shares crowdfunding campaigns in any of the following ways beyond funding them?

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Promoting the campaign	57%
Attending shareholder meetings / AGMs	39%
Giving feedback/advice to those running the campaign	35%
Offering to help/volunteer directly with the project	32%
Making introductions and connections	24%
Giving goods to the campaign rather than money	4%
Helping the fundraisers by letting them use space you have	1.4%

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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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