Don’t invest unless you’re prepared to lose all the money you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you are unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong. Take 2 mins to learn more
Don’t invest unless you’re prepared to lose all the money you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you are unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong. Take 2 mins to learn more
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Due to the potential for losses, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) considers this investment to be high risk.
What are the key risks?
If you are interested in learning more about how to protect yourself, visit the FCA’s website here.
For further information about investment-based crowdfunding, visit the FCA’s website here.
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Blog
- 26 September 2024
BWRP purchased the site with money raised through the Triodos Crowdfunding platform. The organisation had been using a ‘meanwhile’ space, intended for short-term use prior to finding a permanent location, in central Bristol, which allows for community groups or small businesses to move into vacant spaces under temporary contracts. When the lease on the meanwhile space it had been using for 13 years was ultimately deemed no longer ‘meanwhile’, the team decided they wanted to buy a site to secure the future of the organisation and reduce the uncertainty they had been facing with temporary leases. We were delighted to be able to support BWRP with a £430,000 bond offer.
The company is an example of a different way of doing business from the start, in both how it is run and what it does. It operates as a co-operative with equality and parity for workers at its core, with all staff getting paid the same and democratic decision making.
Its business model is based on reclaiming, repurposing and recycling waste wood from around the city. You can buy wood of all shapes and sizes reclaimed from businesses and building sites for your own projects, buy ready-made furniture or commission the team to build your own ideas.
As well as saving wood from waste and providing affordable wood to the community, BWRP also works to enable social inclusion. In the last 12 months, it has facilitated over 1,000 volunteer workdays. It also avoids over 500 tonnes of wood from going to waste each year.
If you are passing the Triodos head office in the build up to Christmas, you’ll see our reusable wooden Christmas tree in the window, produced for us by BWRP eight years ago.
BWRP was the first franchise based on the model created by Brighton and Hove Wood (now the Wood Store), and led the way for a network that now includes 28 social enterprises nationwide.
Investments offered on this platform are not readily
realisable, which means that they may be difficult to sell and you may not get
back the full amount invested. Investments are not covered by the Financial
Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) and your capital is at risk and returns are
not guaranteed. Repayment of capital and interest or payment of dividends will
be dependent on the success of the organisation's business model and past performance isn’t a
reliable indicator of future performance. You should
always read the offer document in full before deciding whether or not to invest as it
will cover risks specific to an individual investment. You can read more about
the general risks associated with making these types of investments. If
you are unsure if any of these investments are right for you, you should
contact an Independent Financial Adviser.
Triodos Bank UK Ltd. Registered Office: Deanery Road, Bristol, BS1 5AS. Registered in England and Wales No. 11379025. Authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority under registration number 817008.