At the end of 2021 some of the country’s leading social enterprises gathered at London’s iconic Guildhall for the UK Social Enterprise Awards. The Awards were a chance to come together and celebrate the incredible work of the social enterprise community.

Henna at School for Social Entrepreneurs spoke to three social entrepreneurs in the region who’ve used social investment to increase impact and income, to learn about their experiences.
 

We explore 12 top tips from Social Enterprises and Charities that have ‘been there’, ‘done that’ and ‘got the T-shirt’ when it comes to securing social investment. 

Social Enterprise UK’s latest State of the Sector report titled ‘No Going Back’ was recently published, and in this post, we explore the key finance themes and takeaways for the rest of 2021 and beyond... 
 

COP26 is currently taking place in Glasgow, where world leaders will wrestle with the urgent issue of the climate crisis. To mark the occasion, Hannah Roberts, Marketing Officer at Locality, a national network supporting community organisations to be strong and successful, speaks to two members of Locality who took on social investment to finance their environmental work.

Welcome to the new release of the Outcomes Matrix! We’re super excited to launch the updated and refreshed version.  In this blog post we’ll be exploring what it is, what it does and what it means for you! 

Our first ever online learning course, Social Investment Unpicked, launched one year ago, and we wanted to explore and share some of our key learnings! 
 

Explore 5 fantastic podcasts to add to your listen list, all of which provide invaluable insight to the in’s and out’s of securing social investment. 

Not to sound cheesy but you might be just the one Good Finance has been looking for. Read on, let us tell you more. 

This blog is written by Rosie Daly, a Digital Marketing apprentice at Big Society Capital who sits in the Social Sector Engagement team, primarily working on Good Finance. 

Manprit Vig, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Engagement Specialist at Good Finance talks to Yasin El Ashrafi, Founder and Director of HQ Recording about how taking on social investment was his catalyst for change.

In this post, we explore the importance of knowing your users in building sustainable social enterprises and the role this plays in unlocking social investment.
 

This year, on Mental Health Awareness Week, it seemed more crucial than ever before to address the topic of mental health within the charities and social enterprise sector.  In this piece, Good Finance's Project Manager Ishita, explores the topic of mental health a year after launching a social enterprise during a pandemic.

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. We’re asking social enterprises, charities and social investment organisations to get involved by sharing their favourite ways of connecting with nature. 
 

Back in November last year we reached out to our Good Finance users to understand what they were really thinking (blog here). Three years into our existence, and having reached the milestone of reaching 200,000 unique users, we wanted to check we are still providing the information which serves our users in the best way possible.

Natalia Fernandez, is Regional Manager at Big Issue Invest. She works across the country helping charities and social enterprises explore whether taking on social investment could be right for their business in order to create even more impact.  At Good Finance we pride ourselves on our user centred approach and when Natalia suggested that having a cost of capital calculator would be really helpful, we listened, asked our users and hey presto we responded. Here is Natalia’s guest blog outlining on why this was a tool that was needed Image

The landscape of finance for social enterprise has been significantly affected by Covid-19.

Find the gift that truly keeps on giving by choosing to buy from a Social Enterprise in 2021, supporting the businesses that are changing the world for the better.

Say ‘Hello!’ to Good Finance’s new Digital Marketing and Communications Officer, Annie Constable.

As we head into another lockdown, we know that many charities and social enterprises will have been impacted by the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. In this post, we’re rounding up our top five tips and tools for navigating lockdown three. 

Tell us what you think.  We are reaching out to all of our users to get an updated insight on what Good Finance means to you and how we can improve the Good Finance platform so that it can further meet your needs.

Tell us what Good Finance means to you here. Find out more about why we're re-testing our user personas below. 

As we logged onto our favourite annual event from our virtual offices across the UK, we were reminded of just how different our most anticipated events have been this year. Image