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100% funded by 473 investors
instalment
monthly
term
5 years
yearly interest
5%
risk rating
B-
This is Quinta Alma’s second GoParity campaign. In 2018 the promoter successfully raised 30.000€ through GoParity’s impact investment community, to create a structural lake and increase the project’s photovoltaic installed capacity. Check it out here – GoParity’s 9th campaign ever. Since then, Quinta Alma has grown considerably in business and activity, developing remarkable work in ecological regeneration.
In the last two years, the promoter successfully organized several experimental courses on the topics of Permaculture and Off-Grid Living in Mediterranean Landscapes. Carrying this experience, the promoter will now expand its business scope beyond B&B Tourism to include Educational Tourism, anchored in research, development, and promotion of Agroecology and Self-Sustainability. This new business brand will be called Alma Lab School: an outdoor experimental laboratory with an ecological taipa building to give classes and workshops.
Quinta Alma Lab School will offer recurrent courses and training on Permaculture, Sustainable Building & Construction, and Off-Grid Living & Farming. Alma Lab School will also lecture weekend courses on specific agroecology courses, such as natural cosmetics, fermentation and distillation of food, and beekeeping.
The funds raised through this campaign will be used to:
Direct
Indirect
The project will require total financing of 82.000€, of which 45.000€ (55%) will be raised through GoParity’s investor community and 37.000€ through the promoter's own capital. Despite of the pandemic situation and its impact on tourism, Quinta Alma has a stable economic situation, characterized by positive results in the past five years.
With this new business area, by the end of the third year, the global revenues are expected to increase 57% with a net contribution margin of 65%.
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Quinta Alma is the brand name of the business managed by Joana Gorjão, an individually owned company officially named Joana Gorjão Rapaz Moreira, ENI
Open since May 2017, Quinta Alma is a cozy ecological retreat in Aljezur. Initially thought of as Nature Tourism and Ecological Glamping, Quinta Alma is deeply committed to a sustainable relationship with the ecosystem. This life project results from the founders' passion - Joana and Mario - and their vision of an inspiring and relaxing experience in Nature. Quinta Alma is independent from the national energy and water networks and is "hidden" just outside Aljezur on the Atlantic coast of the Algarve.
Quinta Alma - cover of the European Glamping Guide 2021:
Joana has over 15 years of experience in events management, human resources, and multidisciplinary team management. During her career, Joana founded a music event production company. She moved on to work in the fashion industry where she was the managing director of Gardénia Fashion Stores, and after that, she was Skunk Funk’s country manager for Portugal.
Mário has an MBA and worked as a consultant for the European Commission in Brussels. He has more than 20 years of experience in multinational companies, such as Sonae, Optimus, and McCann Erickson. Mario has founded several companies and is a man of many skills, including solid marketing management experience, business development, and financial management.
The company’s business strategy is based on innovation and the team will continue working to diversify the services provided in the upcoming years, under the trilogy of Agroecology, Tourism, and Regeneration.
Permaculture is the baseline for the promotor's personal and business culture, and the knowledge base that drives the laboratorial agroecological practices. Teaching Permaculture is a strategic part of the company’s service portfolio.
Operationally, Quinta Alma is totally off-grid, with low operational costs for water and electricity. It will remain like this, independent from the utility companies. A strategic positioning and self-sustainability customer reason-to-believe.
Human Resources are of paramount importance for Quinta Alma, they will implement an HR strategy that attracts people that are capable, available, and have diversified skills. The promotor considers that this is crucial to driving the company forward. Quinta Alma will reinforce and balance its present model based on a mix of professional managers, internships, and volunteers.
In the past five years:
Active since
2017
Fiscal country
PT
Operating In
Aljezur
Industry
Tourism
Number of Goparity Loans
2
Women Shareholders
Yes
Website
https://quintaalma.com/2022-01-15
First instalment was paid to all the investors
2021-12-11
441 investors successfully raised 45.000€
2021-12-07
This campaign is open for investment