At Let's Talk Good Finance in Braintree, CEO Matt King of mental health & wellbeing charity Trust Links talks about their experience of taking on social investment via a loan from Charity Bank
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...
At Let's Talk Good Finance in Salford, Dr Iyabo Fatimilehin from Just Psychology CIC talks about their experience of taking on social investment via blended finance from First Ark and the Reach Fund.
Richard Thickpenny shares insights into the development of 'Yield Sharing Finance'. Richard works for social enterprise Ashley Community Housing (ACH). Together with Resonance Limited, a social investor, the two organisations created the Yield Sharing Investment Model. Compliant with Islamic Law...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.