Building homes for the future – together!
Invest in Heptonstall’s Future – help create a community owned home
Register your interest in investing now
We expect to launch the share offer in late October 2025 and it will run for a month. Invest from £50 to £15,000.
Your investment is primarily for the good of the village. However, we aim to provide a modest return your investment of up to 2% a year. A detailed offer document and business plan will enable potential investors to have a clear understanding of the investment op form.
Register, without obligation, your interest to receive details of the launch event and the share offer document. Complete and return this form (by hand, post or email, to info@caldervalleyclt.org.uk). Scan the QR code or click here to complete an online form.
Communities in Investing in their Community
Calder Valley Community Land Trust believes that community-led efforts can help achieve the new homes we really need in our Valley.
We also believe that there are many people within our own community who have a little money available which they will be prepared to invest for social as well as financial return. We provide opportunities to make direct ethical investments in the form of community shares.
Calder Valley CLT has raised over £360,000 in community share investment capital, for help in funding both the Birks Court, Walsden and Fielden Acre projects. Over 130 local people – and not so local people – have chosen to trust us with their savings. We appreciate very much their support for our aims and principles. This represents, in a very literal sense, real ‘buy in’ to what we are trying to achieve.
Our share capital is attracting a 2% rate of return. (We acknowledge with thanks those investors who have voluntarily opted for a lower rate of return).
Although we are not currently actively seeking for community share investment, we are planning another offer very soon!. If you’d like to be added to our register to be notified about future investment opportunities, you can do so without obligation. Please email our Executive Manager atinfo@caldervalleyclt.org.uk.
More about community shares
There is a lot of information on how social investment is working to drive real improvements for communities at the Communityshares.org.
Find out more about what community shares are.
Invest in Heptonstall’s Future
You can help create a community owned home in Heptonstall
Heptonstall’s charm and fame have attracted second homes and holiday lets, pushing house prices beyond the reach of many young local people.
The project will create a secure tenancy at an affordable rent in the heart of the village, enabling local people to put down roots in the community and plan for their future.
The current owner of a house on Northfield wishes to sell their house to Calder Valley Community Land Trust (CVCLT) at below market value to create a community asset for the village.
We need your help to make it happen
We aim to invite you to invest in a community share offer to enable the purchase and renovation of a house in Northfield, Heptonstall.
A community share offer is the mechanism that attracted 348 people to invest in the bringing Heptonstall Post Office into community ownership.
The Project
Help us to buy a terraced home in Heptonstall; refurbish it with local contractors; and let it on an affordable secure tenancy to local people aged 35 and under at the start of their tenancy.
Community Share Target
We need to raise at least £150,000 to make this happen.
Your investment will help secure an investment of £25,000 from Cooperatives UK, who will invest this should we raise £125,000.
As a charitable community benefit society, CVCLT, is eligible to raise capital for the development through a Community Share Issue. Community shares have already helped us build 6 independent living bungalows for older people in Walsden and purchase 2 homes at Fielden Hall in Todmorden.
Register your interest in investing
We expect to launch the share offer in late October 2025 and it will run for a month. You will be able to invest from £50 to £15,000.
Register, without obligation, your interest to receive details of the launch event and the share offer document. Scan the QR code or click here to complete an online form.
Your investment is primarily for the good of the village. However, we aim to provide a modest return your investment of up to 2% a year.
A detailed offer document and business plan will enable potential investors to have a clear understanding of the investment opportunity and its risks.
Community shares are fully at risk. Our rules give our Board discretionary powers to refuse or suspend withdrawals if it is financially prudent to do so. In practice, this means that share withdrawals for this share offer are limited to 2.5% of share capital per annum with a ceiling of £9,000 until 2030. Share withdrawals will be possible from 2029 onwards, on a first-come, first-served basis. The Society can only allow withdrawals if we’re doing well as a business, and we need to have sufficient trading surpluses and reserves available to enable it to give you your investment back.
You could lose some or all the money you subscribe. You have no right to compensation from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, nor any right of complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service. There is a risk of losing some or all of your money. Please don’t invest any money you can’t afford to lose
Additional guidance on investing in community shares is available on-line from the Community Shares Unit: http://communityshares.org.uk/guide-investing-community-shares