Blogs and media
Investee Insight: share your thoughts and experiences with us to help improve the social investment process!
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Here at Good Finance, we’re proud to play our part in helping organisations to navigate the social investment process through tools, information, resources and connections – one acronym at a time!
5 reasons why you should attend Good Finance Live
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Taking time out from your busy schedule to attend an event can be challenging – but worth it! Gaining insights from a diverse range of experts, meeting peers and building relationships is invaluable to supporting your organisation. Good Finance Live is a one-day, hybrid event brought to you by Good...
Social Investment vs Traditional Investment: 3 Key Advantages You Need to Know
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Why should you consider social investment? What are the advantages? And what is ‘traditional’ investment? In this blog, I’ll be exploring all these questions and more, sharing insights from my first four months of navigating the world of social investment, a challenging but rewarding journey.
International Volunteers Day: The vital role volunteers play in community businesses
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On International Volunteers Day (5 December), we celebrate the army of people who freely give their time and skills to support community businesses across the UK. Andrew Dubock, Plunkett UK’s Communications Manager, shines a light on the important part that volunteers play in raising the funds to...
Introducing 'Pay it Forward' for E-Learning
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We are excited to announce the launch of our 'Pay-It-Forward' model for our e-learning programmes. This is designed to tap into the power of community and shared responsibility by enabling investors and commercial organisations to contribute to a fairer, more inclusive learning ecosystem.
Can Social Investment be Used to ‘Fix’ What’s Broken: Spotlight on Children in Social Care
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The social care system in the UK is broken. Privatisation and rampant profiteering by select for-profit businesses that seek to monetise some of our most vulnerable has had severe consequences for the rest of the market.
5 times social investment supercharged an organisation’s impact
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Social investment plays a vital role in enabling impactful organisations to meet the needs of the communities they serve, no matter who they are. With access to financial support, these ventures go on to build and scale their social and environmental missions, improving lives and promoting...
A complete guide to measuring social impact for community businesses
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Understanding and measuring social impact is crucial for community businesses to demonstrate their value and secure support. Plunkett UK’s Nick Comley provides essential principles and practical steps to help you effectively communicate the positive changes your business brings to the community.
7 things I've learned from Investment Committees of the Future: In Conversation
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Investment committees are critical decision-making bodies that determine the allocation of funds, shape investment strategies, and guide organisations towards their financial goals. However, social investment specifically considers more than just the financial outcome of an investment; What impact...
Three things you should know about social investment
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In this brilliant guest post from Sebastian Rocca , Founder and CEO of Micro Rainbow , he explores three things to know about social investment while reflecting on his own experiences of the process...
Reflecting, responding and moving forward together
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In recent weeks, communities across the UK have been terrorised by far-right violence, racism and Islamophobia. In response we’ve seen people coming together in their thousands to counter the threat of violence, to stand together and oppose this. However while we see the media coverage of these...