Share Offer extended until 14 December

We have decided to extend the share offer for a further two weeks, to end on 14 December. This is in response to a number of investors indicating that they require more time to access the funds to purchase their shares.

We will not be able to extend the offer beyond this date, as the moratorium on the sale of the pub resulting from our Asset of Community Value listing expires on 14 January. We would therefore like to start negotiating with the vendors by mid-December, with a view to settling by early January (taking into account the Christmas break).

We have raised around £145,000 from almost 100 investors – with over a quarter of all households in Bentley having bought shares. Although we are still some way from our target, the rate of investments has picked up in the past week, and we are aware of a number of people still interested in investing.

Don’t miss out on your last chance to help secure our only pub and restore a village shop to Bentley.

If you missed our interview on BBC Radio Suffolk this morning you can listen to it atwww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01l0y4r. The interview takes place around 1 hour 40 minutes into the programme.

Finally, we have had confirmation from www.microgenius.org.uk that the transaction fee charged by the direct debit service GoCardless is subject to a £2 cap – a significant improvement on the 0.5% fee for all transactions that we were originally advised, and was stated in our offer document.