As you may have gathered from the title of this blog, today is officially Shared Interests twentieth anniversary. Hip Hip Hooray!
Over the last twenty years the organisation has gone from strength to strength and now annually lends over £33 million in 36 countries around the globe. No mean feat for a small Newcastle based co-operative!
In honour of the day here are our top 5 achievements over the past 20 years:
- Reaching over £26 million of share capital
- Achieving a Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development in 2008
- Being the flagship employer on the steering group to achieve fairtrade status for Hadrian’s Wall
- Establishing three overseas offices in Kenya, Costa Rica and Peru
- Developing a charity, Shared Interest Foundation
Obviously this is just a selection and there have been many more achievements over the years. Why not share your Shared Interest memories? What do you see as our key achievements?
If nothing else feel free to use our birthday as an excuse for a cup of tea and a piece of cake or even a cheeky glass of wine, all fair trade of course!
Happy Birthday Shared Interest, here’s to the next twenty years!
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Happy Birthday to us! I think we have many great achievements – namely our customers and all that they are able to achieve, through their own efforts and hard work but also with support from Shared Interest.
Have my homemade fairtrade cakes (banana and white choc muffins!) and fairtrade earl grey ready to celebrate with later on!
Excellent work, you know that if you keep up all this fair trade baking you are going have to bring some up next time you visit don’t you?!? Good glad that has been agreed!
I did walk into that one didn’t I!?