Together, we have already achieved a lot!
A big step has been taken. Our campaign month of October is now over.
In Tranche 2, you have now invested over €180,000.
Only 3% is still needed to start construction.
We will now continue our bond campaign until 15 January. Get involved!
In Tranche 2, you have now invested over €180,000.
Only 3% is still needed to start construction.
We will now continue our bond campaign until 15 January. Get involved!
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De Torteltuin is a pioneering project for a new form of living: sustainable, affordable and collective.
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Join the friends of De Torteltuin!
We have already completed two campaigns, now we are on the final sprint.
By the end of 2024, we will be building!
By the end of 2024, we will be building!
- €200.000+Total amount invested and donated by private investors and donors
- 300+Donors and investors
€33.000
Target amount Donation campaign: €33.000
Latest update: 11/17/22, 14:30
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€53.000
Target amount Tranche 1: €50.000
Latest update: 07/21/24, 15:23
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€213.000
Target amount Tranche 2: €500.000
Latest update: 12/11/24, 22:22
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What our investors tell about us❤️
- Lovey project!
- Super initiative! Best of luck!
- I wholeheartedly support your initiative, good luck Tortles!!!
- We need such leaders.
- Super good Tortles, best of luck!
- Good luck with your great initiative
Investment benefits
By investing in De Torteltuin, you not only achieve an attractive financial return, but also support us in our mission of a sustainable, social and affordable city!
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Sustainable buildingYou invest in a nature-inclusive wood building with a vegetable garden and a roof on which we generate our own energy via solar panels. In winter, we will heat our house via heat pumps and within our plants on our facade we will create as many nests for animals as possible. -
Social communityYour investment supports a permaculture community caring for each other, the neighbourhood and the city. We share things and spaces in the community in which we create places for the neighbourhood to come together and make the city more beautiful through workshops, repair cafes or a neighbourhood kitchen. -
Affordable housing, partly for people who are having an extra hard time on the housing marketYou enable affordable social and middle rent, part of which is earmarked for people who are having an extra hard time in the housing market. These remain affordable rental properties in perpetuity and can never be sold. -
More housing cooperatives in the NetherlandsBy investing in us, you not only make the construction of our housing cooperative possible, but also that of many projects in the future. Every euro of profit we make from our project goes into a fund for housing cooperatives to make even more great projects possible. -
An investment with an attractive interest rateAn investment with an attractive interest rate.
We offer an investment with 3% interest, above what Dutch banks offer savers. -
A gift from the coopBesides a financial and social return, you will also receive a nice gift from us because we believe that you also deserve a gift for your support..
More than 95% of our building has now been funded. We have a loan agreement with the Municipality of Amsterdam via the SVn for 600,000€ in the planning fase and 1.5 million in the construction phase and we are already supported by more than 250 people. The support of your amount now exceeds 100,000€!
Now we still miss more than 450,000 euros to make our dream of a place for the neighborhood and all Amsterdammers true. Until 1 October we need your investments to succeed!
Do you want to support us by investing or let your network know?
Bond 10 years
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250
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The bond has a maturity of 10 years and helps finance the construction of the Torteltuin. After the term expires, the purchase amount will be refunded with interest.
The bond has an annual interest rate of 3%. This interest rate is rolled up, meaning that the purchase amount as well as the interest is repaid at the end of the term. Furthermore, there is no interest-on-interest, but you are entitled to annual interest on the purchase amount.
The bond has an annual interest rate of 3%. This interest rate is rolled up, meaning that the purchase amount as well as the interest is repaid at the end of the term. Furthermore, there is no interest-on-interest, but you are entitled to annual interest on the purchase amount.
Our gifts
Because we believe you deserve a gift for your support
€10,000+
Contact us to agree on an adequate (financial) arrangement
+ rent of a space, mention on the website, name on CLT wall of fame and ceremony
+ rent of a space, mention on the website, name on CLT wall of fame and ceremony
€7000
A space of your choice for a part of the day
+name on CLT wall & website and ceremony
Already chosen by 1 investor.
+name on CLT wall & website and ceremony
Already chosen by 1 investor.
€5000
Your name on our CLT wall of fame
+ listing on the website and ceremony
+ listing on the website and ceremony
€2500
Your name or company on our website
+invitation to our ceremony
+invitation to our ceremony
€1000
Invitation to our groundbreaking ceremony
Already chosen by 8 investors.
Already chosen by 8 investors.
Our investors about our cooperative
'What if we built our own?': young Amsterdammers fight housing crisis with cooperative build— Jon Henley, in The Guardian.
What is a housing cooperative?
A housing cooperative is a coalition of people who desire to manage their own houses in a social way, guided by the needs of the collective. As members of a housing cooperative in formation, we collectively design our new dwelling and again collectively build and maintain our property. An important aspect here is that on idealistic grounds no profit will be made at the cost of the tenants, that is, the members of the cooperative.
In both Germany and Switzerland this form of housing is already widely deployed as a means to ease the pressure on the housing market, to help it become a little more healthy. The municipality of Amsterdam is now also active in this field, and sets out to realize 40.000 houses of the cooperative kind by 2040, making up about 10% of new construction up to that year. The recently published Actieplan wooncoöperaties clearly outlines the municipality's ambition in this matter.
In both Germany and Switzerland this form of housing is already widely deployed as a means to ease the pressure on the housing market, to help it become a little more healthy. The municipality of Amsterdam is now also active in this field, and sets out to realize 40.000 houses of the cooperative kind by 2040, making up about 10% of new construction up to that year. The recently published Actieplan wooncoöperaties clearly outlines the municipality's ambition in this matter.
Photo: Laura Huygen
Housing cooperative De Torteltuin
How do we want to live later in life? This question planted the first seed for De Torteltuin. The answer: more affordable, social and green than what we can find in Amsterdam at the moment. What we want does not exist yet - so we will build it ourselves, as a collective.
Because we view ownership over houses neither as the holy grail for individuals, nor as a sustainable model for society, we are doing this as housing cooperative: development, usage and management are in the hands of the actual group of cohabitants. The appartements which we are building are going to be protected against the vagaries of the market with a fixed, low rent - a house is after all a basic right, not a tool to invest. Next to that our future house will be a beacon for communal living: we will share a lot of facilities with each other and we are making democratic decisions on the running of the housing cooperative. And all of this within the realms of a energy-neutral, climate-proof and nature-inclusive building! Because by looking further than the moment when the building will be finished, we are looking at the long term value that our housing cooperative can create for her inhabitants and her neighbourhood.
From the first brainstorm in January of 2020 we have come far:
In 2022 de Torteltuin has signed an agreement with the municipality for the development of a plot on
Centrumeiland, IJburg, in Amsterdam. In October 2023 we got the loan of the Stimuleringsfonds and now we have a beautiful final design of our building which we created together with Natrufied Architecture.
Also we are going to work hard on the bond campaign in the upcoming months and the start of construction is planned for the beginning of 2025.
Because we view ownership over houses neither as the holy grail for individuals, nor as a sustainable model for society, we are doing this as housing cooperative: development, usage and management are in the hands of the actual group of cohabitants. The appartements which we are building are going to be protected against the vagaries of the market with a fixed, low rent - a house is after all a basic right, not a tool to invest. Next to that our future house will be a beacon for communal living: we will share a lot of facilities with each other and we are making democratic decisions on the running of the housing cooperative. And all of this within the realms of a energy-neutral, climate-proof and nature-inclusive building! Because by looking further than the moment when the building will be finished, we are looking at the long term value that our housing cooperative can create for her inhabitants and her neighbourhood.
From the first brainstorm in January of 2020 we have come far:
In 2022 de Torteltuin has signed an agreement with the municipality for the development of a plot on
Centrumeiland, IJburg, in Amsterdam. In October 2023 we got the loan of the Stimuleringsfonds and now we have a beautiful final design of our building which we created together with Natrufied Architecture.
Also we are going to work hard on the bond campaign in the upcoming months and the start of construction is planned for the beginning of 2025.
Visualisation of De Torteltuin by Natrufied Architecture
Bond campaign
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