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Save Babbinswood Farm
Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
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Join us to save Babbinswood Farm! Be part of our mission to protect organic farmland for purpose, not profit, and support the wild community
An Important Message to our Supporters!
Dear Supporters
We’d like to extend our thanks for your patience whilst we navigate our path to securing as much organic land at Babbinswood Farm as possible.
We are now excited to share what we hope will be the best option for Babbinswood Farm Community Benefit Society, our members, and our vision for retaining this organic landscape as best we can.
You may be aware that the whole of Babbinswood Farm has been put on the open market. However, Barbara Jones, the landowner, is still committed to enabling the Community to own as much land as they can afford (within the given timescales). This gives buyers like us more flexibility when looking at combinations of fields to purchase.
Putting the whole of the farm on the market has opened opportunities for the CBS to purchase land on the north part of the farm. So recently, the Board donned their wellies and waterproofs and walked the fields on the north side of Berghill Lane to see if there is a better alternative for the Society and the community. As a result, an area has been identified which has more going for it and is a similar make up and value to that proposed at the AGM.
The map below is an extract from the whole of Babbinswood Farm.
The two fields and the woodland on the south side of Babbinswood Farm (shaded brown) formed the proposal which the Board presented at the AGM in October 2025. To remind you, the two fields (‘Maggies’ and ‘Long Leasowes’) together cover just over 15 acres, and the woodland, 3.51 acres. There is a track adjacent to Maggies field which leads to the woodland.
Also shown on the map is one large field (‘Gravenall & Brick Kiln’) and an area of woodland (‘New Woodland’) on the north side of Berghill Lane. These are the new areas that the Board are proposing we purchase (shaded dark green).
Please check the Updates for more information.
Our proposal is conditional on the CBS raising funds to cover the cost of the land plus all associated purchasing costs and still have enough funds in our reserves to cover initial running expenses. We are currently completing a detailed financial analysis and will only move forward if the Board believe it to be fully financially viable for us to do so.
We are humbled by the support we have been given so far, but to secure this purchase and ensure the CBS maintains a reasonable level of reserves, we do need to continue fundraising. Consequently, we have kept the Crowdfunder campaign open and are updating our website where there are other ways to buy shares or make donations. In our best-case scenario, we will be able to buy Blue Stone field too!
Please continue to share our campaign
Everyone’s support helps!
We hope that you will support this alternative proposal for purchasing land at Babbinswood Farm North.
We welcome your views on this exciting plan, so if you have any questions or concerns, please do reach out to us.
To keep us moving forward in a timely manner, we’d love to hear your feedback by midnight on Wednesday 4 March 2026. This can be via:
- Email: [email protected]
- Post: Babbinswood Farm CBS, Babbinswood Farm, Berghill Lane, SY11 4PF
- In person at a Q&A forum on Saturday 28 February between 10.00 and 14.00 hours where you can speak directly to myself as Chairman alongside Andy Cristinacce, our Treasurer. Please meet the directors in the farmyard by the shop.
Please accept our heartfelt thanks for all your support to date. We are now very close to safeguarding some of this land in the hands of the community for perpetuity.
From Robert Morris
Chair of Babbinswood Farm Community Benefit Society
On behalf of the Babbinswood Farm CBS Board of Directors
WHAT'S HAPPENING?!
What’s happening with Crowdfunder?
· We kept our Crowdfunder open until the end of January while we set up better ways to pay via our website
· We have raised a further £3,000+ in that time! Thank you to all those sticking with us in this quest
· We have now extended it for a further month while we iron out the wrinkles on our website
What’s happening with our website?
· We are still working on getting a good payment process embedded in our website. This is taking longer than we’d hoped, but fear not – it’s coming!
· We are endeavouring to improve our website, so look out for those changes.
What’s happening at the farm?
· Life on the farm continues
Barbara shepherding her sheep alongside her vet business
Casha tending to her cattle and working on new exciting plans
The farm shop and veg box enterprise is driving forward
Wildlife thrives
· Events are being planned so keep an eye on our website and social media
· Contracts for the sale of land at Babbinswood Farm have not yet been signed, but there is plenty of interest out there, so it will be sold…..
What’s happening in the CBS?
· We have raised nearly £270,000!
· We still have time to purchase more land
· We are still selling shares - remember this is an open share offer
· We are still accepting donations - don’t forget to complete the Gift Aid form if you’re a UK taxpayer
· We are working with Barbara and Casha to put on more farm-based events
As ever, we thank all our supporters far and wide helping us to make this happen.
Babbinswood Farm Community Benefit Society
31st January 2026
Buying Shares or Donating through Crowdfunder
A quick update:
Our Crowdfunder campaign closed today. However, we have requested an extension but due to this falling over a weekend, is hasn't been enabled in time.
You therefore have a couple of options:
- revisit the campaign on Crowdfunder early next week when it is re-opened
- visit our website: babbinswoodfarmcbs.org.uk then click on BUY SHARES AND MAKE DONATIONS in the menu across the top of your screen. Scroll down to find our bank details and either make a bank transfer or post us a cheque. In either case please ensure that you complete the relevant form (share application form or donation form) so we can match the payment to your information. These forms can be posted or emailed ([email protected]).
- visit the farm shop if you are in the area to make payment by cash, cheque or card and complete the form.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Watch out for our next update coming soon....
Babbinswood Farm is up for sale…
Yes, those dreaded For Sale boards have been erected, and Babbinswood Farm is closer than ever to being sold on the open market.
BUT we are on the cusp of securing a portion of that land for the community and the more we can raise, the more land we can buy
SO IT’S NOT OVER YET!
We are tremendously thankful for all the support that has been directed our way whether it’s through buying community shares, making donations, attending our events, sharing our story or talking about us, it has helped us get where we are today.
If the cattle, sheep and other animals who call Babbinswood Farm home could speak they would be saying a huge …
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!
Don’t forget that our Crowdfunder page is open until the end of January. If you miss it, then check out our website for alternative ways to support.
AND PLEASE KEEP ON SHARING, KEEP TALKING AND KEEP BELIEVING!
Together we are still changing the future of this land!
Our mailing address is:
[email protected]
Our website is:
babbinswoodfarmcbs.org.uk
Happy New Year to all our supporters 🥳
Stop Press!
We have received feedback that it is not possible to buy shares or donate through Crowdfunder as stated below. So, even though we've met our minimum, the Crowdfunder campaign has been reopened for four weeks. This will give us time to put in place alternative arrangements for buying shares and making donations going forward.
This is possible because there is
still time to buy more land at Babbinswood Farm.
Please continue to share our story!
We’re ending 2025 with a BANG!!!!
Our minimum target of £250,000 has been exceeded! And you are right behind us, continuing to buy shares and donate to our campaign throughout the festive period.
The latest figure now exceeds £260,000, which means we can start the process to put some of the land at Babbinswood Farm into the hands of the community. This precious organic land can be saved for future generations!
As our Crowdfunder campaign draws to a close, we want to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for the support you’ve shown – you are incredible.
But this is not the end…..
We will be continuing to fundraise into 2026 with the hope of securing even more land at Babbinswood Farm. Until it is sold, we still will have the opportunity to obtain more fields.
Our open share offer remains just that – open.
Crowdfunder can still be used to purchase shares and donate while we put in place alternative arrangements.
Watch out for our updates, check out our website or follow us on social media as we move into this new phase and begin to develop plans for the community.
So please carry on sharing our story and helping us towards the next steps in the history of Babbinswood Farm.
Festive Update 23 December 2050
Being at a loss for words doesn't work in these updates, so here is what we know:
The stampede continues! We are hurtling to our minimum target all thanks to our marvellous supporters far and wide.
The latest figure now exceeds £220,000! Crowdfunder now sits at £157,119 thanks to further share purchases and donations in recent days. Add this to the off-line contributions in excess of £65,000 and you can see how close we are to the £250,000.
Money is still rolling in for our campaign. That minimum target becomes more achievable day by day. Don't worry, we are double-checking our projected costs of purchasing the land to be sure that no hurdles get in our way.
Don't forget that shares are still available; this is an open share offer.
You are all important to us - your support means everything, whether it's buying shares, making donations or sharing our story.
Watch this space for more updates soon.....May your holiday season be full of magic.
Campaign Update 3 December 2025:
We have not given up our campaign!
We are still passionate to aspire to reach our minimum target of £250,000.…and still dream of the total target of £1.5million …if we believe it, we can do it!
One generous individual has very recently invested £4,500 in shares, for which we are extremely grateful. However, the sale of shares has slowed down in general over the last few weeks, so we need a further push before contracts are drafted for the sale of this beautiful place.
But time is running out to save Babbinswood Farm – or even part of it. We hugely value your faith in supporting us, but Barbara (the landowner) needs serious offers on the table by 31 December 2025.
One of our biggest hurdles in selling the £50 shares is having enough people with the skills, knowledge, energy and time to help us get the momentum going again. If there’s anyone out there that can help, please get in touch- this could be our last chance
Buying shares – although risky – doesn’t mean your cash is lost and gone forever. Shares are withdrawable, and most of the money could be refunded if you do need your money back (subject to a small discretionary deduction of administrative costs -see the Society’s Rules 28 to 31).
Please share with friends and family. With your help we can do this!
Campaign Update 19 November 2025:
We have reduced our funding target to £250,000….but we have not given up on our top target!
The £250,000 is our new minimum target which we consider will still make the CBS viable. This was aired at the AGM in September and those present voted in favour of accepting this new minimum as an addendum to the original business plan. See our website for details: www.babbinswoodfarmcbs.org.uk.
We have raised at total of £133,000* to date which is a large amount but unfortunately does not go far enough when buying land at current prices. Some of this funding has come direct to us so is not reflected in the total you can see on our Crowdfunder page. (*Note, this figure includes £14,400 for is a restricted grant which is not available for land purchase but will fund expenses related to that purchase.)
The main reasons behind this reduction in our funding target are
- recognition that we are now very short on time
- the option to purchase a smaller proportion of the land and still have a viable society is on the table
- that funds raised so far are below what we had hoped by this point in the campaign
- it’s important to make the campaign appear achievable
Up until recently, Barbara Jones (the landowner) has held back from putting the farm up for sale on the open market. However, this cannot go on indefinitely. Barbara still wishes that the community will buy as much as they can, but financial pressures are taking their toll, hence we are now in competition with the general market. There have been expressions of interest from non- farming and green energy investors, so we urgently need to raise as much as we can to enable us to obtain a larger share of the farm as possible.
We hope that you will continue to support us and spread the word about our campaign. If we can attract the right investor(s), it is still possible to reach that magic £1.5m.
It’s not over, until it’s over!
Our grand total as of the 22nd September 2025 is £127,000!
This is the total raised so far from Crowdfunder, our offline donations & share purchases (paper forms, or our online form found on our website), as well as successful grant support received!
Campaign update, 24th September 2025:
Please see here for an update on what it means to reach our 30th of September deadline. We will lose first refusal on the 30th, which means open-market buyers are now looking at buying the land.
But this isn't the end of the story, or the fundraising, as there is no buyer lined up yet. We have decided to keep the Crowdfunder open for as long as possible, so that we can keep pushing to raise as much as we can before this happens. We may have a week, a month, three months, we don't know, but we have raised nearly £130,000 so far, and the movement keeps growing! It's not over until it's over. Please see the update for more information.
21st August 2025 update
Please see our 21st August update for the longer version of this update on our current shareholder consultation to revise our Business Plan. The shorter version:
We have raised an incredible amount so far - over £110,000 - and are so pleased and proud of the community of people trying so hard to protect this land!
Our aim is to keep as much land organic, to protect as much of the farm, as possible. With this aim in mind, and facing the reality that we don't currently look as though we are going to reach £800,000 - £1,500,000, we are consulting with our existing members on their priorities and perspectives on purchasing a smaller amount of land.
We will revise our Business Plan to incorporate plans for purchasing a smaller amount of land that would still fulfil our charitable aims outlined in the current Business Plan and Share Offer documents: sustainable agriculture, environmental education, connection, food sovereignty and ecological resilience.
A common question is: what will happen if you don't raise enough money?
Our aim is to save as much land as possible, so we will plan to use the money that we do raise to do this. Shareholders will be given the opportunity to withdraw their shares if they wish to at that point (if they don't want to be part of a scaled-down community ownership).
Each share is a bit more land protected, a bit closer to better food sovereignty, a bit more of the world in protected, organic stewardship for generations to come.
If you care about farming, the countryside - if you want less of our farmland to be lost to development or intensification - this is your time!
Join us and become co-owner of this beautiful organic farm
Caption - Some of Team Babbinswood Farm on one of the permanent pasture fields for sale, photographed in December 2024. Listed from left to right: Barbara Jones, Andrew Cristinacce, Robert Morris, Alan Southcombe, Casha Bowles-Jones with kids Amber and George, Daisy Kirtley, Lynda Marchment and Ben Shatford.
Who are we?
Babbinswood Farm Community Benefit Society Ltd. is a non-profit co-operative dedicated to saving and growing Babbinswood Organic Farm by placing half of it into community ownership. We are a group of volunteers who believe in stewardship, not ownership, and in protecting and safeguarding our local land.
We are following in the footsteps of the many other community-owned farms across the UK. Through a farming tenancy on the land known as Babbinswood Farm South, money from farm business will be recycled directly back into community projects. It's a win-win, where a working organic farm is saved through building a community hub.
We care deeply about retaining the biodiversity and organic nature of this land – we want it to sustain livelihoods in our community and provide green space that the whole community can all benefit from.
This land has too much to give to the local community to become industrially developed or intensively farmed, to be lost to those same old stories. We are dedicated to raising £1.5m by the 30th September 2025 so that this time we can change the story.
Casha's cow-calf dairy, where mums and calves are kept together + milk is shared
Funds are being raised through a community share offer, donations and grants to purchase 117 acres of permanent grassland, woodland and some of the traditional red brick farm buildings.
If not purchased by the community, the land will be sold on the open market.
With the loss of organic status, and the high risk of future development given the location (beside existing housing), it's future potential to serve our food security, local community and the wider public in the many ways that community-owned organic farms can deliver will be lost.
Even if purchased by a farming family, farm life and the economy are so tough currently that the risk of being sold on again for housing, energy projects or other industrialisation is high.
The land we are buying is shown yellow on the map below.
If you care about food, farming and the countryside, we encourage you to become a co-owner of the farm with us!
Become a co-owner, get your voice heard, and be part of this fight to keep land for purpose, not profit.
If the total is not raised, we have plans in place that are detailed in the Business Plan (scroll to the bottom of the page, it's attached). Our minimum is £800,000, but to save every inch of land means raising the total £1.5 million. Our aim is to save as much land as possible, and the plans if we do not reach the total by the deadline will be discussed with our community Shareholders: you will have a chance to withdraw your share if you are not happy with those plans.
If you want to read the Share Offer or Business Plan, go to the bottom of this page - they are attached as PDF documents!
What are we saving?
The yellow area is a guide to area the CBS could purchase. Photo credit to Olly Boon Earth Repairs who is doing some amazing drone footage and modelling for us.
On the farm in 2025:
- a rare cow-calf dairy herd with exceptional animal welfare – one of very few types of this type of dairy left in the UK, where calves are kept with their mums and surplus milk shared to reduce stress and produce highly nutritional organic milk
- a direct sale farm shop and delivery service, specialising in organic meat, fruit, and vegetables
- 180 acres of chemical-free soil certified organic since 2002, and holistically managed since 2016
- a community garden (polytunnels and food forest) providing informal horticultural therapy, teaching in biodynamic methods, and free food for the local community via connections with food waste CIC OsNosh and local food banks
- a nature haven: Woodland Trust-listed trees, two native lowland mixed oak and ash woodlands, traditionally managed hedgerows, a heritage orchard, and borders a section of the River Perry, a tributary to the River Severn.
- community events and workshops, including a creative residency by the art and heritage-focused Rural Arts Hub and traditional Wassailing events
- local businesses, including a catering service and outdoor bushcraft activities
- a soil-building 'flerd' (flock and herd grazing together to build soil): 72 cows, a 130-sheep flock, farm dogs (including 23-year-old Eric the terrier!), and Rama the cat.
- rural heritage: three generations of the Jones family, whose family have stewarded the land at Babbinswood Farm for at least five generations (since at least the 1890’s), and who have devoted their lives to trying their very best to care for the soil, plants and animals who live on their land and caring for their community.
We care deeply about keeping the land organic – we want this place to sustain farming livelihoods in our community, and to keep providing green space that people and wildlife can all benefit from.
We want to save this land for all of us.
How are we saving the farm?
Our aim as a CBS is to raise £1.5m of funds by the 30th September 2025 to change the story through community co-ownership. But we need your help!
We intend to raise the £1.5 million through a community share offer, donations and grants to purchase 116 acres of permanent grassland, woodland and some of the traditional red brick farm buildings. This part of the farm is known as Babbinswood Farm South. Our alternative plans for if a different total is raised is detailed in the Business Plan at the bottom of the page, as are our details on how this timescale came about. The minimum we can raise is £800,000 - this allows us to purchase enough land, buildings and woodland to meet our charitable objectives - but our aim is to save every inch.
After purchase, the CBS will rent land and buildings back to the tenant farmers to maintain the working organic farm.
The rental income from this will be used to develop and run community activities from the farm.
An absolutely brilliant example of this way of farming is Fordhall Farm near Market Drayton, which is owned by a CBS called the Fordhall Community Land Initiative. Shareholders in the CBS have a life-long say in the future of the farm that they landlord, and we operate on a democratic one-member, one-vote basis so that influence can never be bought.
If not purchased by the community, the land will be sold on the open market. Given land prices and buying patterns, it is highly likely that its organic habitat and farmland will be lost, along with the future potential to serve our local community directly through this model. We could see food production on the land cease completely due to development or absentee landlordism: the farmland is directly next to the hamlet of Babbinswood, so potential for buy-up by developers is very real.
Some of the pastureland becomes temporary wetland during wet weather, reducing the flooding risk for local houses in an area already suffering from repeated flooding. Developing here would increase the chance of flooding. This is one of the many ecosystem services that the land provides through considerate stewardship: through stewardship for purpose, not for profit.
As members of a rural community, we are tired of seeing the same old story of small family farms lost and our rural heritage destroyed. We believe that rural communities can lead the way to a wilder, safer, and more connected world.
We have until 30th September 2025 to raise the funds to save this land and to allow us to utilise it as a community asset and we hope that you will come on that journey with us.
The land and buildings that BFCBS is raising funds to buy are highlighted in yellow here, with the community woodland at the centre of the pastureland.
Do you want to save Babbinswood Farm, ensuring land can be farmed organically while investing directly back into community projects for perpetuity?
Some of the beautiful wildlife on the land: hedgehog, barn owl, and swallows. There are also curlews and fieldfares feeding, bats roosting, woodpeckers, the amber-listed bullfinch, woodcocks, jays, bluetits, swifts, chiffchaff, blackcap, and many more animals both feeding, nesting and regularly passing through the land. Pictured below are a hedgehog, barn owl, swallows and a fieldfare.
What will we do with Babbinswood Farm South once it is in community ownership?
- Grow a community hub on an accessible, peaceful farm
- Ensure long-term organic and regenerative stewardship of the land by offering our future tenant farmers, Casha and Barbara, a long-term Farm Business Tenancy based on organic principles
- Work with others within the farming community to champion holistic and regenerative practices
- Protect and build the soil and landscape for future generations
- Continue to connect people to the land through land access, community engagement and educational practice
- Build on the success of the biodynamic focused community garden
- Welcome volunteers, students and schools
- Increasing access for the community is a huge part of the vision. The community-owned farm will have many ways of welcoming the community on to the farm, for example:
🐕 Over 2km of dog-friendly farm walks through fields (and in the future, we're aiming to route it through the woodland)
🌳 Community woodland – woodland activities, managed public access
🍁 Education – courses and resources for self-sufficiency, gardening and farming
🐓 Therapeutic activities – arts and crafts, horticultural therapy, care farming
🪴 Volunteering and job opportunities
🖼️ Buildings – meeting rooms, workshop space, capacity for eco-build rentals this might include a community cafe
Help us to ensure this land continues to be farmed organically, with our community at its heart?
The story so far: who are the current owners of Babbinswood Farm?
Barbara Jones is the current owner of Babbinswood Farm. Barbara and Casha, a mother-daughter farming team, are co-directors of Babbinswood Organic Farm Ltd. Casha represents the 5th generation of her family to farm at Babbinswood Farm. Their current farming business produces, processes, and retails organic food directly to the local community www.babbinswoodfarm.co.uk The farm is certified organic and has been focusing on holistic management across the whole farm since 2016. Both organic and holistic management fundamentally focus on caring for the soil through good land stewardship and high animal welfare standards. All the produce grown on the farm is sold directly to customers through their charming rustic farm shop and online.
This story, is like many other small family farms across the country that represent the core of the English countryside. They care about the land, they tend and they have diversified to sell their produce direct, to support their extensive and regenerative approach to managing the land, however they have been left in financial gapping due to the exponential increase in land prices.
Why community ownership?
The Jones family at Babbinswood are being forced to sell half of their farm to finance the divorce settlement. This is not a lone story. Farmers are often asset rich but cash poor, and as asset accumulation and development drives up the value of land, this disparity only grows. A divorce settlement for half the land of a small family farm such as this can never be paid on a normal farmer's income.
Across the country and indeed the world, small family farms are being sold every day, often lost to development, commercial interests or investment funds due to land’s high and increasing value.
It seemed as if this could happen here too, but the community have come together to change that story. Now is the chance for everyone to own part of Shropshire’s beautiful landscape and safeguard the land for purpose, not profit.
- October 2023 Just Giving Page set up by a family friend
- December 2023 Community meeting held to discuss solutions and ways to save the farm
- April 2024 Local philanthropist, moved by the story provides support bridging finance until March 31st 2025
- August 2024 Incorporated as a Community Benefit Society recognised by HMRC and Board of Directors formed
- October 2024 We started sell shares to our supporters, family and friends
- December 2024 Received Community Share Standard Mark from COOPs UK.
- January 2025 Crowdfunder Campaign started
What happens next?
We have hope for a new way forward.
A vision where the land is owned for purpose, not for personal financial gain. We want this land to stay in the ownership of people who care, and we want it to be stewarded organically – food production and the care and love of nature hand-in-hand.
Barbara, current owner, says "I feel this is the best contribution I can personally make to the future of the planet, which is why I fully support this land going into community-ownership".
As the family looked for ways to retain their family home and the future of their land in 2023, a JustGiving page was started by a friend. An amazing £19,500 was raised by supporters of the farm – we all rallied together to help bide more time.
Barbara and Casha also met with Charlotte Hollins from the Fordhall Community Land Initiative – England’s first community-owned farm – who has been supporting community ownership of farmland across the UK for a number of years.
On a wintery afternoon in December 2023, our community came together to discuss how we could help secure the farm’s future. We all agreed – we did not want this land sold and farmed with little respect for all the hard work that had gone into preserving it.
We want it to stewarded for the benefit of our community and our planet.
We are now fully incorporated as a Community Benefit Society and recognised by HMRC as an Exempt Charity (Ref Number ZD34883). Co-ops UK have been very supportive during this whole process. Our Community Share Offer has been awarded the Community Share Standard Mark, which affirms the robustness and fairness of the offer. The charitable aims and legitimacy of our organisation have been evaluated by the FCA and marked off successfully.
A philanthropist who believed so strongly in what we want to achieve reached out to Barbara with an offer of financial support, giving our community until the 30th September, to raise the funds before Barbara is forced to put Babbinswood Farm South on the open market.
We are now launching our community share offer nationally to offer you the opportunity to be co-owner of Babbinswood Farm South.
We have until September 30th 2025 to raise £1.5m to save Babbinswood Farm South.
By becoming a shareholder, you will be helping to:
- Create a secure organic future for Babbinswood Farm South.
- Talk for the land, wildife and your community: get your voice heard in food and farming!
- Promote the development of community projects and activities in perpetuity - our CBS is legally obligated to always provide community benefit
- Change the rule book – where long-term livelihoods on the land are prioritised over short-term farming practices and targets.
- Ensure land remains in the ownership of local people and out of the pockets of large investment companies and pension funds.
- Make healthy food and nourished soils the focus of land management.
- Secure a place where wildlife and people can flourish together.
For further information and before buying shares in Babbinswood Farm CBS, we recommend you read our Society Rules, Share Offer document and Business Plan (Links at the bottom of the page).
With your support it will make all these ideas a reality!
A Board of Directors will be elected from our new base of shareholders. As members and landowners, you will help to guide the direction of this farm for the future, ensuring we meet our charitable objects and create a landscape which nourishes us all.
Purchase your community shares today and become a steward of the land
- Each share is £50 and you can buy as many as you like, up to a maximum of £100,000.
- Each member receives one vote, regardless of the number of shares held - Community Benefit Societies are 100% democratic; influence can not be bought.
- Shares are life-long and make you a part-owner of Babbinswood Farm South for life.
- Each shareholder is welcome to put themselves forward to be on our Board of Directors – we’d love to hear from you. Shareholders elect other shareholders in an organisation run by shareholders: this is a classic co-operative structure.
- Our shareholders, our community, will guide the direction of Babbinswood Farm South forever.
- Shares are non-profit-making and withdrawable upon giving notice to the Society (on the proviso that sufficient funds are available to service the withdrawals)
Please note: The purchase of community shares is at full risk, and investors can lose all or part of their capital invested without recourse to the Financial Ombudsman Service or right to compensation under the Financial Service Compensation Scheme. Please do not invest more money than you can afford to lose.
We hope we have inspired you to buy one or more shares! This is a truly special farm and has so much potential to enrich and nourish people's lives.
Please share our story far and wide - to your friends and family and let’s get everyone talking about Babbinswood Farm CBS. Even if you can’t become a share owner please share our story on social media and sign up to our newsletter to stay up to date with our community.
Thank you for reading our campaign, for supporting our story and sharing!
from,
The Board of Directors (See images below), The Land and Our Future Generations
Ways to keep updated with our progress and sharing our campaign... LETS GET THIS GLOBAL!
Community Shares Booster Programme has provided £14,400 of match funding
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 31st July 2026 at 11:59pm