Community Investors
We’re reimagining a future where both people and the planet can coexist and thrive. This is your opportunity to be part of it. To shape it. To realise it. And to create a legacy of change, together.
Community Investor criteria
The community investors will become a village council of sorts, helping to shape the long term future of the project not just in decades but generations to come. It’s important we have people joining for the right reasons. So please consider these statements below as a type of initial criteria for community investors.
- You’re an existing Human.Kind members or long-standing extended community supporter. We’re offering to you first because trust, mindfulness and communication are an essential starting platform for a project like this.
- You’re not a HK member but are passionate about people and planet, we’d love you to apply and get to know you.
- You are deeply motivated to improve environmental, social and cultural health in South Australia.
- You already understand or are excited to learn about Certified B-Corps, social enterprise, regenerative economics, participatory democracy, and purpose-led business.
- You are able to commit to long term engagement.
Sounds like you?
Please read on.
A place we can all call home
This is an opportunity to develop a deep and long lasting connection to a very special place, and a very special project.
We hope that this is a place that can be shared by many, and passed on to future generations as a cause for hope, connection and prosperity.
rESET. REIMAGINE. RENEW.
Investment Snapshot
As a community investor you will be a member of a Company Limited By Guarantee (similar to the RAA here in South Australia).
The Community Company will act as a social enterprise, operating the retreat facility, employing a small team to manage daily operations onsite.
Different to business-as-usual approaches to profit, the social enterprise will enshrine its primary purpose as to care for the land and people. So this will always stay a for-purpose project, with any profit generated being put towards purpose.
As a paid member, your important role is to be a steward and advocate. You will get to vote on major decisions to shape the project’s long term trajectory. This is a defined community that comes together for shared sense-making and decision-making in uncertain times.
You’ll also enjoy benefits of discounted retreats, early access, and special member events. Of course there will be that special feeling of facilitating something that brings so many people healing, joy and connection.
How much Can you invest?
We will continue to consult with community about the right structure.
It’s anticipated stewardship members will invest between $5,000 and maximum of $20,000 for a membership.
These will be long term investments that are about regenerative outcomes. So it’s important that you invest at a level that won’t put you under any financial stress.
What does the Money Go To
Your shareholder funds will go directly into the retreat business startup costs, like hiring a professional team, marketing and fitout.
The business will receive money by hiring the facility to groups like Human.Kind for health retreats, corporate retreats or private events. And it will pay operating expenses as a normal business, like staff, fresh produce for catering, and rent.
Financial and non-financial returns
As a Company Limited By Guarantee, there are no profit distributions. But members will be taken care of through discounted access and special events. So there will be a money-like return but it’s really about care.
This project will always be bountiful by way of connection land, learning, community, spiritual enrichment and purpose.
Exit to community plan
Our hope is that the social enterprise will eventually accumulate money to buy-out the land and facility from Major Investors.
The aim is that this land, facility and operation becomes held in commons by the community owned social enterprise for generations to come.
Our Major Investors are onboard with this unique model. This is how we close the circle on this Circular Initiative.
Hectares of Breathtaking land
People In The "Village Council"
Number of Native Plants Funded
Expected visitors per year
The faces behind this project
We’re a group of friends who got together to invest in something meaningful.