Exeter Observer is running a community share offer to raise investment to expand our team so we can deliver all the independent journalism Exeter needs.
You can buy community shares to help finance our growth and claim 50% tax relief under HMRC’s Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, with scope for capital gains tax and loss relief too.
Our investors can claim back half their stake and keep all their shares.
Exeter Observer is a new kind of independent local news organisation that holds power and influence to account while helping our cultural and community life to thrive.
For the past five years we have held power and influence in our city to account, delivering the accountable public interest journalism our local democracy needs.
We’ve published more than 550 news stories, features, investigations, community and culture previews, galleries, newsletters and special reports.
We have scrutinised policy and decision-making, exposed misuse of public money and resources, examined key issues and organisations, championed open democracy and revealed information that would otherwise remain obscured.
We have engaged and enraged decision-makers and others in leadership roles as well as those behind the scenes with influence over issues which affect us all.
Our website now serves more than a million page views each year and our readership and subscriber base have doubled in the past twelve months.
You can find out more about our community share offer on our website, or come along to an informal event where we will outline Exeter Observer’s development over the past twelve months, explain why what we’re doing is needed more than ever and explore how we might grow.
If investment isn’t for you, please consider becoming a member or supporting Exeter Observer from £1.15 per week.
We hope to hear from you soon. Together we can deliver all the local news that matters.