Using social investment to scale your organisation
Blog
School for Social Entrepreneurs explore how social investment can be used effectively to scale your organisation and the impact it is able to deliver.
Access to Finance: Challenging Social Investors to Think Differently
Blog
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.
5 Changemakers that Used Social Investment to Tackle Key Issues
Blog
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.
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Harnessing social investment to tackle oral health inequality
Blog
Smile Together is an employee-owned dental social enterprise working across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly which is dedicated to tackling oral health inequality. In 2018 they received social investment from Big Issue Invest to help open a new purpose designed, accessible dental centre.
Celebrating Changemakers: Poole Communities Trust
Podcast
In the fifth of our Celebrating Changemakers podcast series, we hear from Debbie Dixon, Project Manager at Poole Communities Trust.
Community Shares Standard Mark
is a mark of recognition that is awarded to community share offers that meet a national standard of good practice. This national standard is built using an assessment framework that was created to ensure that community share offers are clear, honest and transparent.
Asset of Community Value
is a building or piece of land that has been identified as valuable and is used for a positive social purpose to benefit the local community, These include village shops, pubs, community centres etc.
Debt Capacity
is a measure of an organisations capacity to take on debt, and the amount of debt an organisation is able to borrow.
Debt Service Coverage (DSC)
is a term that is used to decide if your business can pay back its debts on time. It considers how much your loan and repayments would cost you in comparison to the income you generate, and determines your ability to repay debt.