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Shaun Doran, CEO FRC Group, shares the good, bad and ugly story of their road to social investment. FRC Group used social investment to tackle furniture poverty. Shaun takes a close look at why organisations should consider social investment and the changes that need to happen for this to work.

David Jenkins, Managing Director Arts at The Mill CIC, talks about the role social investment played in renovating property in Wigan to be used by the community with arts and culture.

Rachel from Hulme Community Garden Centre shares their story of using community shares. They have 80% earned income and 20% grant funding, and support from Power to Change’s Community Shares Booster Programme. Rachel shares her tips on the importance of marketing and looks at why they considered social investment.

Vinelife Church share their experience of being a faith-based organisation taking on a secured loan. Pastor Phil smith talks about the secured loan that Vinelife Church took and how it helped Vinelife Church stabilise their income and carry on supporting their community.

At Good Finance Live in Manchester, CEO of Love For The Streets CIC Jonah Ogbuneke shares their experience of taking on blended finance from GMCVO.

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Leicester, we heard from Yasin El Ashrafi, whose won several accolades with his social enterprise, HQ CAN (Creative Arts Network) and HQ Recording. HQ works with local disadvantaged people and helps them to experience and progress in the music industry.   Listen to the podcast to hear about how they got HQ Recording started with investment in the form of blended finan...

At Let's Talk Good Finance in York, we heard from Sam Leach who is co-founder and director of Spark York (www.sparkyork.org), a community-led social enterprise who used social investment to regenerate a brownfield space and turn it into retail space.   Listen to the podcast to hear how they got started and the different types of investment and funding they got, which includes: • Blended finance fr...

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At Let's Talk Good Finance in Braintree, CEO Matt King of mental health & wellbeing charity Trust Links ( www.trustlinks.org ) talks about their experience of taking on social investment via a loan from Charity Bank ( www.charitybank.org ). Listen to hear: • Why they decided to take on social investment • What it involved including due diligence and reporting process • How it allowed them to gain...

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Salford, Alexis Johnson from charity Walk the Plank talks about their experience of taking on social investment via a bridging loan from the Arts Impact Fund. Listen to hear what it involved as well as the opportunities and challenges they have faced to be more sustainable in the long-term.  

Listen to the Just Psychology CIC story on what it involved as well as the opportunities and challenges they have faced in setting up their social enterprise.

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Rochester, charity Medway Plus CEO Peter Vogel talks about their experience of taking on social investment via a loan from Kent Community Foundation. Listen to hear what it involved and the opportunities it brought their charity - including how it helped them be more sustainable & the additional support they got beyond the money. You'll also hear from Chris Strang at...

At Let's Talk Good Finance in London, LGBT charity London Friend CEO Monty Moncrieff MBE talks about their experience of taking on social investment from Charity Bank. Listen to hear what it involved and the opportunities it brought their organisation - particularly in reducing their overall costs.   You'll also hear from Toyin Miller at SASC and Matt Harrison at Homeless Link talk what their orga...

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Leeds, The Link CIC managing director Tina Jackson talks about why they decided to take on social investment through Big Issue Invest. Listen to hear about the challenges they faced and the opportunities social investment brought. Tina also shares her key learnings from the experience.   Let's Talk Good Finance is a series of regional events across the UK offering cha...

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Birmingham, the Community Giants director John Palmer talks about why they decided to take on social investment through NatWest Social & Community Capital and shares their experience. We also hear from John Murray, a loans officer at NatWest Social & Community Capital who talks about why they wanted to provide the investment. Have a listen to find out what the challen...

Good Finance Live is a new one-day event which aims to provide a space where social enterprises and charities who are actively looking for capital could meet with a wide range of social investors - all in one place.   In this podcast, you can hear a roundup of the day including what's new in social investment.   It features the latest on: Enterprise Development Programme GET INFORMED: Social Inves...

One Unite Partnership's co-founder Dom Ryan talks about how investment from Northstar Ventures provided working capital to help them scale and grow their not-for-profit energy and telecoms company.   Have a listen to find out what the challenges were as well as the opportunities that taking on social investment offered.

  Veterans at Ease managing director Christina Murrell talks about their social investment journey. Having started as a very grant-dependant organisation, they had to re-think their business model to become more sustainable. This led them to use social investment from the Key Fund, which helped them open a charity shop to support the work they do.    

EVA Women's Aid chief executive Richinda Taylor talks about they used secured finance from Charity Bank. They used this social investment to buy a property and opened up the UK's first safe house for older women.  

Jazz Coop Co-Founder Dave Parker talks about how a community cooperative of jazz-lovers bought a pub and turned it into a music venue and education centre. They did this with the help of investment from a range of sources including 220 cooperative members and social investment from Co-operative & Community Finance.  

In this second podcast, David Allcock from Anthony Collins LLP, talks through how social investment fits with charity law, financial services regulation, social enterprise legal structures and understanding the pros and cons of each.

In June the Social Impact Investors Group held a learning session for Foundations at the Barrow Cadbury Trust in London, on the theme of Social Enterprises and the Law. In the first podcast, Liz Minns from Social Enterprise UK talks through what a social enterprise is, landscape mapping, examples, what they do, how they are different from charities, how they are funded and what they use social inv...

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Let's Talk Good Finance is a series of regional events across the UK offering charities and social enterprises the opportunity to learn about social investment as a tool to fund and scale-up their operations.   In this podcast, you'll hear from our guest speaker, Kayla Ente of Brighton & Hove Energy Services Cooperative, talk about their 'warts and all' journey to social investment. We also have M...

Discover a new way to fund your charity or social enterprise with Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) - a 30% tax break for individuals investing into an eligible charitable organisation. In this podcast, we hear from Melanie Mills, Social Sector Engagement Director at Big Society Capital as she shares all you need to know on SITR - the what, why and how you could use it to benefit your organisati...