Despite its naff title 'The Villagers Digging for Victory', this article in the Telegraph is actually pretty good and contributes a fair amount of detail on the financial model of B4RN, the community rural project in the UK
The Importance of B4RN
It would be easy to dismiss the B4RN initiative in the UK as such a small scale approach that it is meaningless, and that's no doubt what the lobbyists who try to shape policy and regulation in the UK are