Funders and investors

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We walk a tricky tightrope at TTT.  

This tightrope spans the gap from one economic system to another. The gap in between, however, is a financial abyss that we teeter over daily and that constantly threatens to engulf us and wipe us out.

While we are busy seeding the infrastructure for a resilient future and developing business models that will thrive in a post peak-oil world, we are vulnerable to the economic realities of today.  

We are confident in the community businesses that are emerging from Transition.  Investors and funders are increasingly sharing this confidence by taking a financial and professional interest in our projects and providing the start-up funding and investment that they need.  

Many of our less commercial projects are attracting significant interest and investment from trusts, foundations, private individuals and companies.  We are keeping a list of our main funders here.  

However, despite the financial success and potential of many of our projects, we continue to struggle to cover our core costs.  

We are very good at keeping our costs low, particularly through the amazing contribution by volunteers, many of whom bring many hours of administration, financial and management expertise - but we are still vulnerable.          

Never in our brief history have we delivered so much with so little.  

 

Ways you can help:

We have developed a strategy to become self-financing in three years and we are now putting this into practice.  

A key component of this is our ability to continue to generate projects and develop business models by which new 'Transition' projects and enterprises provide a financial 'kick-back' to TTT's core costs for a set period of their profitable existence.   

A second key component is our ability to raise finance from the community through a supporters scheme.   

Trust and Foundations -
You will find in TTT a dynamic and committed organisation that is not only delivering real and lasting change in the community of Totnes and District, but that is also operating as a flagship project in the Transition movement.  We are generating ideas and projects for replication elsewhere and providing inspiration to thousands of other communities around the world.

Private Individuals - TTT Supporters
If you value the work of TTT and wish to see it continue, please become a TTT supporter.  We ask for a minimum of £5 per month (no upper limit!).  You can find a standing order form here.

Investors 
As we create more community businesses and enterprises, we create more opportunities for investment, many with very favourable rates of return. 

Local businesses 
If your business is about servicing the new green economy, supporting TTT is an effective way to expand and access your market.  Our outreach work is the hardest part of our work to fund yet it this work that is demonstrably developing the culture and market for for green products and services.   We are local organisation with good will across the South Hams, Torbay and Teignbridge, and a significant national and international audience.  We are limited in what we can offer in conventional sponsorhsip but are always open for discussion.