Dear Citizenfund supporter,
Another great month comes to an end! Here are the latest (and many) news from your favourite fund:
🗳️ Linked.Farm and Relieve Furniture have been validated by our co-operators: we are investing €15,000 in each of the 2 startups.
🧠 Following the discussions at our General Assembly, we are looking for: community experts and people motivated by a workshop on acquiring new co-operators >> info@citizenfund.coop
📺 We stopped by LN24 to discuss… sustainable investments!
🏆 You can vote for the Citizenfund in the Hub Awards 2022. The prize is €5,000 and a reportage by BX1. Some of our participations are also candidates (urbike, Wilfried mag, Happy Hours Market, Relieve Furniture, Give a Day and Coucou).
📅 Agenda (we’ll be there)
04 june : NewB‘s Village of Alternatives
14 june : Lita.co Impact Festival
15 june : CoopCity Fest
Date to come: Meeting of Evazion and a surprise project for funding
🌱 News of our participations
🪢 Happy Hours Market and urbike are laureates of the Impact Programme of Ashoka Belgium, THE global network for social entrepreneurs!
🚴 urbike is featured in RTBF‘s “On n’est pas des Pigeons” and in La Libre.
🥕 Incredible Oasis hosted the Team Bee-lding of Agifin.
📖 Wilfried releases his new issue and creates KIOSQUE, a collective of Belgian, Francophone and free media alongside Alter Echos, axelle, Imagine, Le Ligueur, Médor, and Tchak!
🤝 Give a Day breaks all records!
🎞️ After 3 years of temporary occupation at See U, the Kinograph is closing its doors at the end of June. But before that, they propose to gather all together for a weekend of screenings, meetings, talks and parties.
🚚 Happy Hours Market and SAFE redistributed more than 9 tons of consumables in April, saving 23 tons of CO2.
💄 Slow Cosmétique (formerly Waio) labels 21 new brands.
🏦 NewB opens its pop up in Brussels until 17 June, and seeks € 40 million to strengthen its capital.
🧱 BC Materials was used in Cohabs‘ latest construction site..
💰 A video review of Incofin’s investor event.
🌳 Sonian Wood Coop will supply Brussels Environment with the wood needed to repair benches in many of the city’s public spaces.
🩲 Entusia was featured on RTLZ’s “How it’s Done” program.
🥜 Bulkbar gets a feature in Trends Tendance.
🏡 Novacitis is looking for feedback from users of shared spaces.
👗 Coucou has found its new shop manager.
🐴 Hyppy is getting back into business with the recruitment of a new groom.
♻️ Yuman celebrated its 3rd birthday with tastings, entertainment and prizes.
👨🌾 Linked.Farm is looking for a bilingual Key Account Manager (Fr/NL) who is keen on short circuits but who is not afraid of using IT platforms.
💺 Relieve Furniture has finalised an action with Lenovo: 83% of their inventory could be relocated to schools, associations and small businesses.
By investing in Citizenfund, you are supporting companies like these:
🤓 Some more interesting information
- The Masteclass SuFi (in sustainable finance) launched by Ichec, ULB and UNamur is back in action next fall.
- Two articles on so-called “sustainable” finance (ESG – which, as a reminder, is not impact finance) : Les fonds d’investissement responsable banalisent les énergies fossiles et Ces mesures qui visent à encadrer les fonds durables et éviter le “greenwashing”
- Ideeo, the responsible insurance broker, is recruiting.
Stay tuned, and see you soon,
The Citizenfund team