Are you ready for share offer 2023 launch?

We are very excited to announce that we are nearly ready for our fourth community share offer, with a view to become entirely community owned. We will once again be working with the fabulous team at Ethex to deliver our 2023 share offer, having worked with them on our previous two.

The Stockwood Community Benefit Society is a blended model enterprise that allows the profitable, characterful and environmentally friendly commercial property units to support Rush Farm, a high welfare biodynamic farm with 190 acres of nature friendly fields, hedges and woodland. Not only that but our members get a target 5% annual return on their investment!

If you would like to be ready to join us when the share offer launches soon, click here to pre-register with Ethex...

Home

Eco Farming

150 acres are let to the biodynamic organic Rush Farm. Biodynamic agriculture is pro-environment and is designed to be a self-sustaining farm system that builds soil humus that is good for food, conservation and carbon sequestration.
Home

Renewable Energy

A £400,000 solar and ground source heat pump system has been installed to heat the business park. Providing warm air in winter and cold in summer this district heating system is better for the tenants as well as the environment.
Home

Social Impact

As an biodiverse organic farm open to visitors with a history of on-site education we continue to increase our core value social impacts. Producing good food, fostering community and protecting access to land for future generations.

We make positive ecological and social impacts

Over 400 people have joined the Society and invested more than £1,600,000. They have received a 5% return on their investment annually as well as supporting our founding position impacts.  We are a successful community owned property and land trust that owns a rural business park and 150 acres of farmland half way between Worcester and Stratford-upon-Avon. We have 27 units and around 100 people work on site. Although occupancy dropped for a time after Covid, we are now fully let again.

The Archers

Rush Farm has a long and illustrious history including a place in the story of the long running BBC radio series “The Archers”. In the 1950s the creator of the Archers, Godfrey Baseley, was a frequent visitor to Rush Farm and friend of the then owners, the Hillman family. Several episodes were recorded in the kitchen and the cast were photographed for the Radio Times sitting around the Rush Farm fireplace.

Who are our Members?

Our members come in all shapes and sizes and we are proud of their diversity. We have over 400 investors; 30% are local supporters and many more live across the UK and internationally. What unites our members is their passion for supporting Stockwood. Members invest in us because of our innovative approach to securing land and farm succession, organic and biodynamic land stewardship, and our commitment to renewable energy.