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The Royal Society for Blind Children

RSBC provides a range of services in London and across England and Wales for blind and partially sighted children and young people, their families, and the professionals who work alongside them.

Duration
3 years
Cost of capital
0% first year, 6.5% from year 2
Turnover
£4.15 million
Amount invested
£250,000
Product type
Energy Resilience
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Caramel Rock

Our Digital Marketing Officer Festus spoke with the creative Faith Johnson who founded Caramel Rock. In this podcast we talk about her social enterprise supporting young and vulnerable people in London through fashion and employability. We look into the importance of lived experience but also how Faith valued inexperience when it came to turning her idea.. into a reality.

Duration
3 years
Cost of capital
9.5%
Turnover
£28,700
Amount invested
£86,250
Product type
Blended – part grant, part loan
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Nemi Teas

This #AChangingWorld episode features Pranav Chopra, a social entrepreneur who founded Nemi Teas. This podcast definitely goes down even better with a cup of tea as he talks about how social investment has played a part in his journey and the potential ways to scale up.

Duration
5 years
Cost of capital
9.5%
Turnover
£70,000
Amount invested
£50,000
Product type
Blended – part grant, part loan
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Second Shot Coffee

When Julius Ibrahim became increasingly more interested in tackling homelessness, he opened Second Shot Coffee, a social enterprise café in East London.

Duration
3 year min
Cost of capital
3%
Turnover
Not available
Amount invested
£100,000
Product type
Crowd-funded investment
Social Investment Tax Relief
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Bemix

We are a CIC based in Kent, supporting people with learning difficulties to speak up, make choices and become powerful and influential. We are people with and without learning difficulties and/or autism, working and learning together.

Duration
5 years
Cost of capital
5%
Turnover
£668,300
Amount invested
£70,000
Product type
Unsecured loan (incl. overdrafts)
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Special iApps C.I.C.

At Special iApps, we develop educational apps to support children with special educational needs, including autism and Down syndrome. We took on social investment, in the form of blended finance (loan and grant), from Northstar Ventures to help develop our work.

Duration
5 years
Cost of capital
7%
Turnover
£25,000
Amount invested
£185,000 blended
Product type
Unsecured loan (incl. overdrafts)
Blended – part grant, part loan
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Media Cultured

Media Cultured is a social enterprise that tackles issues of racism, radicalisation and misrepresentation through the use of positive role models and clear messages about ‘identity and integration’ within an increasingly multicultural society.

Duration
5 years
Cost of capital
0%
Turnover
£23,440
Amount invested
£25,000
Product type
Unsecured loan (incl. overdrafts)
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Golden Lane Housing

Golden Lane Housing, the housing arm of Mencap, used social investment to buy homes for people with a learning disability.

Duration
7 years
Cost of capital
4.375%
Turnover
£20.72 million
Amount invested
£11 million
Product type
Charity bonds