Action Porty: Bellfield’s Big Build

BUY SHARES, BUILD COMMUNITY

Bellfield’s Big Build – Community Share Offer

Dates: Saturday 29^th March – Saturday 30^th April 2025

Location: Bellfield, Portobello, Edinburgh 

Target Raise: £200k (successful share issue will unlock £450k capital grand from Community Ownership, if we are unsuccessful we lose the £450k).

Porty’s trailblazing take on keeping community spaces thriving

Can we raise 200k from the community in a month? 

• Action Porty are launching a community share offer to raise funds to double the space in the celebration hall (the old church building) in Bellfield community centre
• Action Porty currently turn away 50% of bookings due to lack of space, and the new refurbishment will create a warmer, more efficient and more accessible building.
• Action Porty were the first Urban organisation to have used the community ‘right to buy’ legislation to have bought the building in 2017.
• Councils, churches and police buildings are being sold off all round the country, Action Porty are showing a way that communities can get organised to own and run their own community spaces. 
• Community members and organisations who buy shares will have a say in what happens with the building in the future. 
•  The building is used for youth theatre, ceilidhs, belly dancing, yoga, weddings, birthdays, Quaker meeting and much more!

“When you build more roads, you get more traffic. When you create more community spaces, you get more community” (Justin Kenrick, chair of Action Porty)

“I had my mother’s funeral here; I’ve spent pivotal moments of my life in this building – happy or sad, joyous or full of anguish, this building has housed all those emotions” (Shauna)

More info – contact membership@actionporty.com, Phone: 07786577884 (Hazel) 

Website: https://www.bellfield.scot/buy-shares-1

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