Blogs and media

Many community groups find the prospect of raising the significant funds required to convert local assets, such as parks, libraries, pubs, cinemas and more, into community ownership, ensuring local people have control over these spaces, particularly daunting. In this blog, we'll go over the idea of...

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2-3 Degrees is an award-winning social enterprise that inspires and equips young people with the personal development skills they need to become the best versions of themselves. Since 2016, 2-3 Degrees has worked with over 6,000 young people across the UK in education, community and sport.

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #EmbracingEquity. In this post, we the Good Finance team explores how our work embraces equity.

In this special International Women's Day spotlight piece, we hear from Eloïse Day (Founder and Chief Creative, Effervescent) who shares her reflections about taking on social investment.

The UK Social Enterprise Awards took place at the end of last year, shining a spotlight on some of the country’s leading social enterprises. The winners were a real reflection of the strength and diversity of the social enterprise movement, which continued to deliver for people and planet, in spite...

Sarah Benn, Membership & Training Manager at Plunkett Foundation, explores Community Shares, how they work and why they're integral to supporting community-owned businesses to thrive and survive in 2023.

Towards the end of 2022, we asked charities, social enterprises and community organisations to tell us more about how they’ve been affected by rising energy costs.

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School for Social Entrepreneurs explore how social investment can be used effectively to scale your organisation and the impact it is able to deliver.

Lucy Findlay MBE explores common barriers to accessing finance, including her own lived experience as Managing Director at Social Enterprise Mark CIC , and challenges social investors to escape the 'business-as-usual' approach that enables inequity.

2022 was a turbulent time for many charities, social enterprises and community organisations. We wanted to start the year with a bit of positivity, celebrating the impact created by inspirational individuals, with help from social investment.