TH!NK FC

What TH!NK FC does

TH!NK FC CO-OPERATIVE CIC is a UK-registered Community Interest Company (Company Number 10225066) headquartered in Coalville, operating a community-led social enterprise that adapts business and personal development thinking tools for use by people of all ages. Its core product is the TH!NK Tools framework — a collection of facilitated thinking methodologies (Possibility TH!NKing, OPV, 8 Caps, What Could I Bird, Community Connecting Tools) originally designed for adult professionals and repackaged for community, educational, and personal development use. The product surface is broad: children's books (Miss P the Pirate, Sharon the Shark, Jelly Fish John) that teach tools through narrative, downloadable planners (Weekly, Goal to Action, Project, Project Money, Enterprise, Enterprise Finance, Risk Balancer, Building Ideas), asset-based community development tools inspired by the ABCD movement, and the What Could I Bird origami challenge. The business model is hybrid and small-scale: one-time book sales at Coalville CAN HQ, fee-based room hire, paid workshops and school programmes, and freely distributed digital tools and resources.

The organisation operates physically from Coalville CAN HQ through a core operational partnership and reaches community audiences through organic social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), a blog, GDPR-compliant email newsletter, and community word-of-mouth. No employees, investors, management team, or external funding are disclosed. There is no evidence of AI/ML capabilities, no app, no API, no proprietary technology stack beyond a Wix-hosted website, and no pricing transparency. The company shows no acquisitions, no funding rounds, no regulatory actions, and no parent/subsidiary structure. The website footer carries a 2022 copyright, indicating limited recent external communications activity despite continued operation as a registered CIC.

Name

TH!NK FC

Legal name

TH!NK FC CO-OPERATIVE CIC

Website

https://thinkfc.org.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

TH!NK FC CIC is a UK Community Interest Company that adapts business and personal development thinking tools for community use, serving individuals, primary schools, and local communities through workshops, children's books, and free digital resources from its Coalville, Leicestershire base.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Coalville

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Book Sales: Hard copies of books (Miss P the Pirate, Sharon the Shark, Jelly Fish John) sold at Coalville CAN HQ.
2. Room Hire: Spaces for hire at Coalville CAN including the TH!NK Office and Training Room, available for meetings, workshops, and events.
3. Workshops and Programmes: A range of workshops offered including day sessions and immersive primary schools programmes.
4. TH!NK Tools Resources: Digital tools, planners, and resources shared freely and for use in communities. Revenue model for digital products not explicitly stated.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

TH!NK FC provides a suite of thinking tools adapted from business and personal development methodologies for use by people of all ages, alongside children's books (Miss P the Pirate, Sharon the Shark, Jelly Fish John), planners, workshops, and room hire services. The organization focuses on helping individuals and communities navigate life challenges, take ownership of community spaces, and establish sustainable local wealth-building community benefit societies.

Product overview

TH!NK FC CIC is a community interest company offering a unified suite of thinking tools and resources for community development. The core offering consists of TH!NK Tools—a collection of facilitation and thinking frameworks adapted from business and personal development for use by people of all ages. These tools are supported by children's books (Miss P the Pirate, Sharon the Shark, Jelly Fish John) that teach thinking concepts through stories, and a collection of planners (Weekly, Goal to Action, Project, Enterprise, Risk Balancer) for planning various initiatives. Additional offerings include Community Connecting Tools for asset-based community development, the What Could I Bird Challenge for mindset work, and room hire services at Coalville C.A.N. The organization operates as a single unified product ecosystem where tools, books, and planners can be used independently or together to help individuals and communities navigate challenges and build sustainable local initiatives.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TH!NK Tools

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Coalville CANcoreOthersCoalville CAN is a key supporter and operational partner of TH!NK FC. TH!NK FC operates from Coalville CAN HQ, sells hard copies of books at their location, and offers room hire (TH!NK Office and Training Room) through their facilities. The relationship is fundamental to TH!NK FC's physical operations.
• World HabitatminorOthersWorld Habitat is listed as a supporter of TH!NK FC, appearing alongside Coalville CAN as part of their support network.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Power to Change: UK trust/investor in community businesses focused on community wealth building — adjacent funder and ecosystem player in the same local-wealth-building space that TH!NK FC's community benefit society work targets.
• The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce): UK-based fellowship and social-impact organisation running programmes on community resilience, social capital, and place-based regeneration — adjacent to TH!NK FC's mission of building community wealth and local capability.
• Local Trust: UK organisation running Big Local and other place-based programmes that fund resident-led community projects — a likely funding ecosystem partner for TH!NK FC's community-strength-building work.
• Plunkett Foundation: UK charity supporting rural community businesses and co-operatives; thematically adjacent to TH!NK FC's mission of helping communities set up community benefit societies and take ownership of community spaces.
• Co-operatives UK: UK apex body for the co-operative sector, supporting community co-ops and benefit societies — the legal/economic model that TH!NK FC helps communities set up via its enterprise planners and workshops.
• Locality: UK membership body supporting community organisations with resources, training, and policy advocacy; thematically aligned with TH!NK FC's community-development audience and tools.

Regional players

• Barefoot Books: Independent children's book publisher producing illustrated storybooks with educational and social-emotional themes; product-format comparable to TH!NK FC's Miss P the Pirate / Sharon the Shark / Jelly Fish John line, though primarily distributed in North America and UK.

Broad incumbents

• The School of Life: UK-based educator/publisher offering books, card decks, classes, and tools for personal development and emotional intelligence — a much larger, broader incumbent operating in the same personal-development-tooling category as TH!NK FC's tools and books.

Direct peers

• Asset-Based Community Development Institute: ABCD's originating US-based institute promotes the same Asset-Based Community Development methodology that underpins TH!NK FC's Community Connecting Tools suite, making it the closest methodological peer for community-strength-based development practice.
• Nurture Development: ABCD-training-focused organisation delivering practitioner training, consulting, and resources on Asset-Based Community Development, overlapping directly with TH!NK FC's ABCD-inspired toolset and community-engagement workshops.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC6k0FH2T5NT8lkbBfScV9Ew
• Facebookfacebook.com/THINKFC
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/thinkfccic

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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