£100-250k

Kendal Mountain Events Ltd

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Kendal Mountain Events Festival

Kendal Mountain Events brings thousands of outdoor enthusiasts from across the globe together to share and celebrate the best stories from the world of adventure. 
Their vision is to inspire more people to enjoy, respect and represent the mountains, through their annual festival in Kendal, Cumbria, and more recently school engagement programmes. 
 

Duration
5 Years
Cost of capital
8%
Turnover
£488,517
Investor Details
Livv Investment
Amount invested
£165,000
Product type
Unsecured loan (incl. overdrafts)

Firstport

Hello! We are Scotland’s agency for start-up social entrepreneurs and social enterprise. We are here to support individuals all across Scotland to start, develop and grow their ideas into businesses with social impact at their core.
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Tafarn yr Heliwr

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Tafarn Yr Heliwr

Tafarn Yr Heliwr is a Community-Benefit Society based in Nefyn, Gwynedd, Wales and was established in order to raise money and re-open the village pub as a not-for-profit community-owned business. 

Duration
10 years
Cost of capital
7%
Turnover
0 - Due to open in Autumn '21
Amount invested
£80,000
Product type
Community shares

​​​​​​​Citizen Coaching & Counselling

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Martin Hogg, Founder & CEO

Citizen Coaching & Counselling provides timely, jargon-free coaching and counselling to young people and adults in Birmingham with a friendly professional approach. We provide a choice of talking therapies, most of which are free to access, delivered by a team of 45 specialist qualified counsellors and psychotherapists.

Duration
6 years
Cost of capital
7.57%
Turnover
£650,000
Investor Details
Resonance
Amount invested
£125,000 + additional grant of £90,550

East Street Arts

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East Street Arts

East Street Arts (ESA) was established in 1993 when two artists couldn't find the support and infrastructure they needed to develop their art practice. ESA have worked to secure better livelihoods for artists and their neighbours and address issues of economic and commercial decline in towns and cities.

Duration
1.5 years
Cost of capital
8.25%
Turnover
£1,717,404
Investor Details
Key Fund
Amount invested
£110,000
Product type
Unsecured loan (incl. overdrafts)

Pop Up Projects

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Pop Up Projects

Pop Up Projects is a non-profit children's literature agency with a mission to transform lives through literature, especially through working with people in deprived places and challenging circumstances. Pop Up Projects delivers on this mission through three distinct strands of activities: working with primary, secondary, SEN schools to produce an annual nationwide children's literature festival; developing emerging talent to ensure that the next generation of children's writers and illustrators is more diverse; and providing advisory services for peer organisations with complementary missions.

 

Duration
5 years
Cost of capital
8%
Turnover
Not available
Investor Details
Nesta Impact Investments
Amount invested
£150,000
Product type
Unsecured loan (incl. overdrafts)

IRIE! Dance Theatre

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IRIE! Dance Theatre

IRIE! dance theatre is the UK's leading dance theatre company delivering creative, educational and artistic activities in African and Caribbean dance. Based in the historic Moonshot Centre in South London, IRIE!'s mission is to support the personal wellbeing and community cohesion of the diverse population in its local area through dance.

The organisation has two distinct but interrelated strands of activities: a wide-ranging community offer across diverse dance styles for young people, adults, families, and older people; and a comprehensive education, training, and professional development offer spanning schools workshops, a degree programme, masterclasses, and residencies for emerging dance artists.

 

Duration
5 years
Cost of capital
7.05%
Turnover
£382,850
Investor Details
Figurative
Amount invested
£100,000
Product type
Unsecured loan (incl. overdrafts)

Proper Job Theatre

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Proper Job Theatre - case study

Proper Job Theatre is a social enterprise creating meaningful work opportunities through teaching drama workshops.

Duration
3 years
Cost of capital
9.5%
Turnover
£936,000
Investor Details
UnLtd
Amount invested
£150,000
Product type
Blended – part grant, part loan

Energy Resilience

There are social investors who are actively investing for energy resilience of charities, social enterprises and community organisations.