Around 250 local people packed St Joseph’s Hall for the share launch. We had a very lively Q&A session and raised £19,750 to give us a great start towards our £313,000 target. 

Dave Hollings from CMS Co-op Development commented “this is the best response I have ever seen to a community share offer“.

One of the Harlaw Hydro supporters arrived just before the event start:
” I wondered what big event we had unwittingly managed to clash with and then I had to queue to get in to the hall, which was standing room only“.

Our thanks to the St Joseph’s Hall committee, Lindsay Rutherford the All Round Star event manager, Gordon MacDonald MSP and everyone else who come along on a Tuesday night to support this launch.

We are daring to dream the hitherto unimaginable; that we could raise the whole finance needed through community shares alone!!

And if you couldn’t make it along last night – watch this video or download the powerpoint presentation to find out more about the project.

Thank you all.

The Harlaw Hydro team.

The big day approaches Harlaw Hydro is nearly ready to launch its share offer. At 7.30pm on 9th April, in St Joseph’s Hall, Harlaw Hydro will present its plans for the hydro-electric scheme at Harlaw Reservoir and will launch the share offer. There will be opportunities for questions, comments and suggestions but most importantly there will be an opportunity to invest in this exciting community project. The prospectus and forms will be available on line here and on Harlaw Hydro’s new web site which will be HarlawHydro.org.uk where there will also be copies of relevant documents.

A great deal of preparatory work has been completed and the project is now ready to move onto the next stage. If you are interested in what other coops are raising money for look at community shares.

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