Dear Citizenfund supporter,
We hope that you have had a good start to the year and that you have lots of new projects for 2022! On our side, 3 new co-operators joined us by investing 10.500 € in January 🚀
At the beginning of the year, we also took the time to look back. 2021 for Citizenfund has been :
👋 + 48 new cooperators
💰 + € 197,250 investment
🌱 + 7 companies financed
👛 an average citizen investment of € 1,005
🔎 7 selection committees for 11 projects submitted
👩🏫 3 evenings of project presentations to cooperators
🏛️ the support of Finance&Invest.brussels via the CoopUs mechanism
🤔 our first “Entrepreneurs’ Challenges” evening
👦 the creation of C shares at €50
For 2022, our mission remains the same: to enable citizens to regain control of their money and invest it in meaningful businesses. We have a few surprises in store for you 😉
What we can already tell you is that we took part in the Tendance Première programme (RTBF) alongside Financité, NewB and KOIS Invest to discuss sustainable finance.
🌱 News of our participations
🚴The 35 urbike delivery drivers travelled 80,000 km in 2021 to deliver 115,000 packages in Brussels, contributing to the reduction of more than 15 tonnes of CO₂ emissions from road transport.
🥕 Incredible Company‘s General Assembly voted for the post health crisis recovery plan. You can now sign up again for their training courses to build tomorrow’s world.
📖 Wilfried magazine is in danger. The good news is that you can help them by subscribing or becoming a cooperator.
🚚 The Echo newspaper reports on the partnership between Happy Hours Market and the European non-profit organisation SAFE (Safe Food Advocacy Europe).
🏦 NewB doubled its target with its first investment product: more than 2,000 investors invested almost €20 million in their new fund.
🧱 BC Materials’ Chief Operating Officer, Bregt Hoppenbrouwers, was selected as one of 13 Belgian personalities by the editorial team of the magazine Vif Weekend.
💰Incofin cvso has obtained the Finance Solidaire label from Financité, which guarantees that the product finances activities that generate social and environmental benefits based on societal criteria.
🌳 Sonian Wood Coop participated in the RTBF programme Quel Temps.
🩲 Entusia closes its 2021 year with 6 distributors in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Sweden.
🥜 Bulkbar has increased the number of distributors installed by a factor of 6 by 2021, to over 40 distributors.
🚜 Ma Ferme is under snow and preparing for 2022.
♻️ Yuman is looking for a commercial space of about 500m² to develop its second shop.
Invest in Citizenfund and fund companies like these!
💡 Some interesting news
💼 Jobs jobs jobs :
- Novacitis is recruiting a project manager for the development of La Menuiserie.
- BulkBar is hiring a business developper (NL).
- NewB offers about 10 positions to change the bank.
- BC Materials is looking for an R&D collaborator.
- Solifin offers an internship in graphic design & video editing.
✨ The crowdlending platform Look&Fin is launching an “impact” label for SMEs that have a positive impact on one of the three main categories of “people”, “planet” and “prosperity” and is already offering a first dossier.
See you soon,
The Citizenfund team