Blogs and media

Good Finance is hiring! Digital Marketing and Communications Officer role

Blog

10 November 2020

Location: London, EC4A (currently remote working; occasional travel as part of the role) Accountable to: Good Finance Project Manager Salary: circa £30,000 - £34,000 Contract: Permanent Working hours: Full time (open to flexible working) Apply here via BeApplied

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Diversity and Inclusion

5 November 2020

There has never been a more urgent need to ensure that Good Finance is addressing the imbalance faced by black and minority ethnic led organisations in accessing information, education, and resources on social investment.

Good Finance: A Changing World - in conversation with Sue Wynne

A Changing World - Rotherham Rise

Podcast

21 October 2020

The third podcast in our latest series explores social investment in a changing world. Throughout this series, hear from six brilliant charity and social enterprise leaders on their experiences, hopes and fears for the future and how social investment has or might play a role.

Choose Communities: Buy Social

Blog

16 October 2020

The pandemic has seen communities come together to support each other, mutual aid groups have been set up and we have been united in our sense of gratitude and appreciation for the key workers who have kept delivering social impact.

Good Finance: A Changing World - in conversation with Stevie Parks

A Changing World - The Skill Mill

Podcast

15 October 2020

The second podcast in our latest series explores social investment in a changing world. Throughout this series, hear from six brilliant charity and social enterprise leaders on their experiences, hopes and fears for the future and how social investment has or might play a role.

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Let’s bust some jargon

Blog

14 October 2020

Jargon exists everywhere - across sectors, industries, all over the world. If sometimes you find yourself scratching your head at the new buzzword or rolling your eyes at yet another acronym, you’re not alone.

Good Finance: A Changing World - in conversation with John French

A Changing World - Fuse Events

Podcast

9 October 2020

In this episode, John French, Chief Operating Officer, speaks to Good Finance about Fuse Events, a social enterprise events business that delivers socially responsible, world-changing events. But what happens to your business which centres around staging world-changing events when the UK goes into...

Diversity & inclusion: so much more than buzzwords

Diversity and Inclusion

30 September 2020

Social Enterprise World Forum 2020

Blog

25 September 2020

This week saw the Social Enterprise World Forum take the virtual mainstage, bringing together social enterprises from across the world for a jam packed programme of workshops, panels and networking.

Good Finance: A Changing World - in conversation with Suzy Van Rooyen

A Changing World - Suzy & The Good Loaf

Podcast

21 September 2020

In this episode of #AChangingWorld , we chat with Suzie who founded The Good Loaf – a social enterprise based in a town close to my heart in Northampton.

Rebecca White, Your Own Place - The social investment experience

Podcast

16 September 2020

Rebecca White, CEO of Your Own Place CIC talking about her organisations’ experience of taking on social investment from Sumerian Partners, just before the covid-19 hit. Listen to hear more about her patient equity investment deal that has allowed Your Own Place to scale up activity and employ a new...

5 lessons learnt from #AChangingWorld

Blog

8 September 2020

Over the last few months we have seen the effects of COVID-19 and its lockdown measures have a huge impact on how social enterprises and charities navigate using social investment. In this blog post we round up lessons from our #AChangingWorld podcast.