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Newsletter of July 2022

Dear Citizenfund supporter,

 

Here is the latest news from your favourite investment fund:

🏆 After 2 years of work, we are proud to announce that we have been certified B Corp! We are the 36th Belgian B Corp company and the first Belgian citizen investment fund to be certified. Read more…

💰 On the 4th of July, you had the opportunity to meet EVAZION, Polyperception and urbike who applied for Citizenfund funding. After 10 days of voting, you decided to fund these 3 additional companies. Read more…

🗞️ Mediaplanet Belgium has published a dossier on the future of finance and considers Citizenfund as a future solution. Read the article…

 


 

🌱 News of our participations

🚴 urbike, which you have decided to re-finance, is looking for a fundraising project intern.

🥕 A look back at the Incredible Company‘s pallet wood construction slow team-building.

📖 A few weeks after its last issue, Wilfried is releasing an issue 19, a special thriller, “De Sang Froid”.

🎞️ CinéCité launches with 3 other independent cinemas the Cineville unlimited pass.

🚚 Happy Hours Market redistributed +8 tons of consumables in June (21,344 kg of CO2 saved) and adapted its business model.

💄 Slow-Cosmétique (Waio) is launching the Club Slow, , an annual membership that entitles members to discounts on a wide selection of products.

🧱 BC Materials sets a production and sales record in June: more than 100 tonnes of excavated soil from construction sites were reclaimed.

💰 Incofin cvso sold its 20% stake in ACEP Burkina (2nd largest microfinance institution in Burkina Faso) to the French impact investor SIDI.

🩲 Entusia has reached half of its sales target for 2022.

🥜 Bulkbar welcomes a new trainee, Timon, business developer for Flanders.

🏡 Novacitis is still looking for hands on Saturday 30/07 from 9am to clear the building of La Menuiserie in preparation for the work in early August.

👗 Coucou offers exceptional sales of its small designers.

🚜 Ma Ferme is offering a mini-travelling music festival TractoTour on 30 July.

🐴 Hyppy was visited by CréACtions ASBL, whose objective is to prevent school failure and encourage children’s autonomy from an early age.

♻️ Yuman is looking for a student to be available on Saturdays to welcome and advise clients.

👨‍🌾 Eat’s Local, which uses the Farm2Fork Linked.Farm platform, makes its deliveries with urbike. Synergies are great!

💺 Relieve Furniture is looking for 2 sales & account managers for the Belgian market from 1 September 2022.

🏕️ 47 EVAZION travellers have already taken to the road since the beginning of July. The whole team has also been in Normandy to develop their village concept.

 


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🤓 Some interesting articles

  • Financité publishes an analysis on so-called green funds: “le ver(t)nis craque“. A look at the HSBC and DWS cases, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank.
  • The Economist and the Financial Times look at the same issue and propose impact investing as a way forward.
  • Finally, La Libre presents the social economy as a solution to the crises.

 

We wish you a great July and August and hope to see you back in shape in the autumn (we’re already preparing new projects!).

 

See you soon

 

The Citizenfund Team

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