{"id":57,"date":"2023-10-19T21:07:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T21:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylvaniastores.com\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:51:01","slug":"shareholders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sylvaniastores.com\/?page_id=57","title":{"rendered":"Shareholders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sylvania Community Stores is a <em>Community Benefit Society <\/em>registered by the Financial Conduct Authority. It is is run on a not-for-profit basis and owned by the community, for the community. Becoming a shareholder is one way to become part of this wonderful project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Become a member by buying one or more \u00a325 community shares<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As a member you will have a say in the running of the project with a vote at the AGM (Annual General Meeting). You will be kept informed with regular newsletters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your share will not pay a financial return. It entitles you to become a member.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At each AGM, shareholders elect members of a Management Committee, who oversee the governance of the Stores. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">To become a shareholder,\u00a0please click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/8e9cb0d7.sibforms.com\/serve\/MUIFAHo2krDRmW8PjyMkCrotysip51qN0_jfaR1delfmpdt2QgF9x_LwvfhIokHglppH2UWmnO84bvBMNz8V0oNZKReR8s0qfUJhLRKtfv67MjmPXAbx-EtuAPfSLhdSu-9MaIUCIl96yTVjR8UOXQ_WLkNwNyL7_BXOq8mraAWPdkkhZJ9JKq7BGWHjbEaIovgdU878AD34Ebtx\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0to fill out a short shareholder registration form and then pay for your shares by bank transfer to:<br><strong>Sylvania Community Stores Ltd<\/strong><br><strong>Sort Code:\u00a0<\/strong>60-83-01<br><strong>Account Number:\u00a0<\/strong>20440860<br>Please include this as your reference:<em>\u00a0&#8220;SCS [Insert your first initial and surname]&#8221;<\/em><br>Please don&#8217;t worry if your bank doesn&#8217;t find our account\u00a0 &#8211; our bank hasn&#8217;t yet implemented Confirmation of Payee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"box\">\n<p>More information about the community shares can be found here:<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uk.coop\/start-new-co-op\/support\/community-shares\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Community shares: A guide from Co-operatives UK<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sylvaniastores.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sylvania_share_prospectus.pdf\">Share Offer Prospectus<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sylvaniastores.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sylvania_business_plan.pdf\">Our buisiness plan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvania Community Stores is a Community Benefit Society registered by the Financial Conduct Authority. It is is run on a not-for-profit basis and owned by the community, for the community&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylvaniastores.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylvaniastores.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylvaniastores.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylvaniastores.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylvaniastores.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sylvaniastores.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/sylvaniastores.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylvaniastores.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}