Half moon lends money from private individuals for sustainable projects

The water treatment plant is almost ready and she also wants to install 750 solar panels on her new buildings on the Waggelwater industrial estate. Cost 2 million euros. They do not go to the bank for this, but launch a crowdlending. After the success of their crowdfunding for the underground pipeline, they are confident that they will find enough people who want to invest in their sustainability projects.

Crowdlending is a variant of crowdfunding and that in the form of a loan. The investor is a private individual who lends money to a company. He/she gets his money repaid with interest within a pre-agreed term. In the case of De Halve Maan, this concerns a gross interest rate of 5% and a term of 5 years.

From 1 June everyone can subscribe to the plans of De Halve Maan. You can invest from €500. Managing Director Xavier Vanneste: “The company is now fully committed to sustainability and wants to make green investments in order to grow further and at the same time keep its ecological footprint as low as possible.”