Resolution Ventures
Investors
£10-50k
HQ Recording Studio
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HQ Recording Studio provides a relaxed, creative environment located in the heart of Leicester city centre. At the beginning of 2019, they completed an extensive refurbishment enabling them to have high quality recording facilities across two rooms, with the latest in cutting edge digital software and hardware.
Duration
5 years
Cost of capital
3.25%
Turnover
£135,868
Investor Details
Key Fund
Amount invested
£50,000
Product type
Blended – part grant, part loan
Mansfield CVS
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Mansfield CVS is an infrastructure organisation that has been supporting the community and voluntary sector in Mansfield for over 40 years.
MCVS are a landlord providing serviced offices for tenants and individual room hires for events. They also deliver local authority contracts e.g. public patient engagement CCG, County Council - volunteer co-ordination and Sport England.
Duration
3 years
Cost of capital
6%
Turnover
£317,459
Investor Details
Key Fund
Amount invested
£23,000
Product type
Unsecured loan (incl. overdrafts)
Eidgah Academy CIC
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Located at the heart of Perry Barr, Birmingham, Eidgah Academy is a community hub providing educational, recreational and social activities for economically disadvantaged children and young people. In Perry Barr, 60% of the population belongs to people from ethnic minority groups and 15% of the populations first language is not English. Eidgah Academy engages 130 predominately Muslim children and young people of Pakistani, Bengali and African backgrounds with opportunities through structured personal development programs and playing games.
Duration
6 years
Cost of capital
5%
Turnover
£50,000
Investor Details
Big Issue Invest
Amount invested
£25,000
Product type
Blended – part grant, part loan
Energy Resilience
There are social investors who are actively investing for energy resilience of charities, social enterprises and community organisations.
Community shares
A withdrawable, non-transferrable equity investment into a cooperative or community benefit society. It is a form of equity because the investors get a share of the organisation.
Equity investment
An investment in exchange for shares in your organisation. For example, an investor pays £10,000 to own 10% of your organisation. Equity investors receive a share of any profits paid out by your organisation and get to have a say in how it is run, proportionate to the amount they invest.
Blended – part grant, part loan
A package of funding that is a mixture of investment, that needs to be repaid and a grant that doesn’t need to be repaid. For example, a grant of £20,000 alongside a loan of £50,000 that needs to be repaid over 5 years with 10% interest.
Unsecured loan (incl. overdrafts)
An investment that is not secured against an asset (a building or equipment). An investor provides your organisation with a loan and you repay it on an agreed basis, usually with an agreed amount of interest on top.
Crowd-funded investment
An investment that is raised via an online platform and not secured against an asset (a building or equipment). A ‘crowd’ of individual investors put (mostly) small amounts towards a loan to your organisation and you repay it on an agreed basis, usually with interest on top.