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Getting Started If you would like to find out more, please visit our website, or complete this form and send it back to us FREEPOST. As an investor in Shared Interest, you become part of our supporter community.

You can receive a quarterly newsletter, which will tell you all about the impact your investment is having in the developing world. Each issue is packed full of stories and photographs of people whose lives are being transformed thanks to Shared Interest finance. You can register for online access to ‘Our Shared Interest’. This is a portal for our investors to read our newsletter, make transactions, and view their Share Account via a secure area on our website.

Each year, we hold a series of events across the UK to meet with our investors.

These events create valuable opportunities to find out more about how the organisation works and the difference your investment makes.

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Please tell us how you heard about Shared Interest Society: _______________________________________________________________________ Shared Interest Society 0191 233 9102 membership@shared-interest.com www.shared-interest.com @SharedInterest

Justice not profit is the bottom line

Imagine if you could invest in a fairer world

Imagine if you could change lives by investing just ÂŁ100

Shared Interest is an ethical investment organisation. We act co-operatively, which means we are owned by our UK investors, who want to be part of a fairer world.

We use their investment to provide fair finance to fair trade farmers and handcraft makers across the globe.

When you become an investor, your money is held in a Share Account, which you can top up to a maximum of ÂŁ100,000. You can earn interest on your investment. You can also withdraw your money if you need it again.

However, while it is with Shared Interest, you can be sure that your money is doing amazing things.

Shared Interest offers loans and credit facilities to ensure that farmers are paid on time for their crops.

Our finance helps handcraft organisations to buy raw materials, and enables co-operatives to pre-finance orders from their overseas buyers.

We couldn’t do this without our loyal investors.

Richard has been an investor since Shared Interest was founded in 1990.

Richard said: “My wife and I lived in Nairobi and saw the struggles people faced. We liked the idea that trade could be fair as well as free.

“You only have to read Shared Interest’s newsletter to see how valuable it is to invest in small producers who may struggle to find finance elsewhere.”

Liz heard about Shared Interest when she inherited a small pot of money.

“I wanted my money to do some good in the world. Shared Interest chimed perfectly with my intentions.

“As a member, you get to hear directly from the people who benefit. This gives me enormous satisfaction that what we do is unique, sustainable and fair.”

HOW DOES IT WORK? STEP 1

A Share Account is opened

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Money goes into the Shared Interest pot

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A loan is made to a fair trade business

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The loan is used to buy equipment or to pre-finance orders

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The loan is repaid to Shared Interest

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Enriching the lives of others USA-based Andean Naturals uses a Shared Interest loan to offer 4,000 Bolivian quinoa farmers pre-harvest payments.

“My name is Efigenia and I am a member of Suma Kamaña, an association of women quinoa farmers. Our name means “to live well” in the ancient Aymara language of the Andes mountains.

We are dedicated to the well-being of a community that has been growing quinoa in the polar desert of the Altiplano for countless generations.

Thank you to all who invest their money with Shared Interest.

This means that we receive a fair price for our quinoa before it is sold to consumers in North America.”

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