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Soul Farm
Sustainable Farming - Community Shares
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Soul Farm is an agroecological market farm growing seasonal, organic vegetables in Cornwall. They are committed to connecting the community to local food grown with soul and making it accessible to all, helping to grow the UK’s organic food sector.
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Updates
Soul Farm makes room for more community investors
13th May 2024
The Soul Farm community share offer has enjoyed great success on Ethex, with investors quickly getting them past their minimum raise amount, supporting the growth of their agroecological market farm growing seasonal, organic vegetables in Cornwall. Through the Community Shares Booster Programme, Co-ops UK invested £40,000 in support of this. Now, in the final week of the offer, Soul Farm has decided to remove £30,000 of the match funding to allow more community investors to come on board and join them on their journey.
A community approach to better food producion
It's crucial to Soul Farm that a group of passionate investors form the community that owns the successful market garden business. They're dedicated to ensuring healthy, organic local food is accessible to all and is grown in a way that respects the local wildlife and environment. Their vision is a community-owned market garden that provides a blueprint for organic farms and market gardens around the UK.
Invest in a better way to feed our communities
Investments in the share offer will support Soul Farm to expand its market garden in Falmouth, offering a vegetable box scheme, a farmers market and supplies to local restaurants so more people can access fresh, organic, local and healthy food. With just 7 days to go, they are 90% to their revised target raise, so it's a great time to join their community of investors, targeting a 6% return.
Soul Farm Produce Limited
Society no. 9172
Fairview, Stithians, Cornwall, UK
Incorporation date: 3 November 2023
Your money will…
Tackle climate change by demonstrating a better model for UK farms that counteracts the damage created by industrial food production.
Improve the health and well-being of more people by offering access to healthy, local produce and giving them a connection to the land.
Strengthen communities by supporting the future of local, organic market farms and a new generation of young farmers who value people and the planet.
Earn a potential return. Investments in the share offer target an annual return of 6% and make you a part-owner of the market farm.
The bigger picture
Industrial farming methods being used for our food production are harming the planet, biodiversity, communities and our health. We need more access to locally grown and responsibly farmed food sources. Soul Farm is an organic market farm in Cornwall that believes everyone should have access to fresh, local seasonal food improving their health and benefiting nature by:
- Running a veg box scheme and market stall that supplies more than 740 people with fresh produce each week and supplying restaurants with organic, seasonal food.
- Ensuring they farm organically, avoiding the use of chemicals to maximise biodiversity and the health benefits of their produce.
- Introducing a sliding scale of payments for their boxes to enable them to donate food to people facing food insecurity.
- Educating their community on the benefits of better food production.
- Training new growers through annual market garden events and an internship program
- Creating a wider impact on the farming sector as a whole by demonstrating success in organic food production.
What your money will do
Your Investment in Soul Farm will :
- Help Soul Farm grow and flourish for future generations by allowing them to invest in a top-of-the-range poly tunnel and winter veg growing
- Make you a part-owner of Soul Farm, joining a passionate community that’s taking action against the causes of an unfair and unsustainable food system.
- Promote good health, protect wildlife, and promote local biodiversity, hailing a new era of sustainable farming and local food production.
- Help democratise the local food system by creating a model that makes fresh, healthy food accessible to all.
Team
Meet the Soul Farm team https://www.soulfarm.co.uk/
Laurence Jarrett-Kerr
Founder, CEO & Ex-officio Director
18 years working in marketing and branding for food and drink brands ranging from Coca-Cola, to P&G and Univeler brands. He recently worked for Gendall design ad Design Director managing a small team. Laurence has now been working
Adele Jarrett-Kerr
Founder, Marketing and Social Impact Ex-officio Director
One of the founders of the farm and brings 12 years a of experience in freelance marketing, writing, PR and journalism. She now splits her time with Soul Farm and Soulcraft; facilitating young peoples creative expression. She has also worked as a counsellor for breastfeeding mothers and brings those social engagement and facilitation skills to the business.
Ian Brydon
Director and Farm Manager & Ex-officio Director
Part of the farm since 2022 and turning his attention to his sixth season commercial growing. Before that Ian spent a two years as a general gardener after a decade managing teams on boat crews and teaching in dive schools.
Jan Trefusis
Estate Manager at Trefusis Estate. Owner of walled garden and Soul Farm Chair.
Alice Marston
Board member
Current board member and advises on small business as she has run her own cafe and other businesses.
Max Fontana-Revel
Board Member
Max moved to the area two years ago, and has a background as a Business Executive across sectors including design, manufacturing, e-commerce, IT, investment and blockchain. Max noticed that Hook Norton is a leading light in the area, in providing community projects and services to locals, and would like to do what he can to encourage this. He was keen to join the HNCLT Board to aid these local projects, alongside learning more about the community.
Richard Brown
Board Member
Richard has lived in Oxfordshire for most his life. He moved to Hook Norton in 2021, was married there, and his youngest child attends the village nursery. He has a background in the operational management of complex, public-facing buildings and has worked for a variety of outsourcing companies. He currently manages the facility operations for a prominent University. He joined the HNCLT board in 2023 to use his experiences to support local initiatives, and to be more involved in the village and assist in the running of long-lasting community-led facilities. .
Annabel Shawcross
Board Member
Annabel moved to Hook Norton five years ago but lived just outside the village for 16 years. Her three children went to both playgroup and the primary school and Annabel is an active member of many village groups. Annabel runs her own online gift business but before moving to Oxfordshire was New Media Communications Manager at the NSPCC, specialising in young people-facing communications, so has first-hand knowledge of the issues facing young people trying to find their way in the world, housing being a prime concern.
Anne Tutt
Board Member
Anne has lived in Hook Norton for more than 20 years. She is passionate about supporting the community and ensuring the village has sustainable, affordable housing for the future. Anne has extensive finance and governance skills. She is a qualified Chartered Accountant with more than 30 years’ experience of board membership as both an Executive and Non-executive Director. She is a member of Council at Swansea University and a trustee / advisor to three charities. Until recently, she was Vice Chair of Oxford University Hospitals, which runs the Churchill, Horton and John Radcliffe hospitals and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.
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Richard has lived in Oxfordshire for most his life. He moved to Hook Norton in 2021, was married there, and his youngest child attends the village nursery. He has a background in the operational management of complex, public-facing buildings and has worked for a variety of outsourcing companies. He currently manages the facility operations for a prominent University. He joined the HNCLT board in 2023 to use his experiences to support local initiatives, and to be more involved in the village and assist in the running of long-lasting community-led facilities.
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Interest accrual and payment
Interest accrues after the offer closes and is paid annually at the end of the financial year (if the board deems affordable).
Getting your money out
Shares are not transferable and withdrawing of share capital is subject to agreement by the board. Withdrawal requests will be considered after 2028.
Investing on behalf of children
Applicants must be 18 years old or more to participate in this offer. Investments cannot be made on behalf of minors.
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