It’s been a whirlwind of a year here at Good Finance. This year, we’ve had over 63,000 users of the website to date, listed 62 investors and advisors and reached more than 1,000 people through events. And we gained a new team...
Only one thing is certain when you’re a social entrepreneur: every month will be different from the last. You’re on a constant learning curve, whether your organisation is starting, scaling or shrinking. You feel like your to-do list is toppling over with tasks you’ve never had experience of...
At Let's Talk Good Finance in Salford, Dr Iyabo Fatimilehin from Just Psychology CIC talks about their experience of taking on social investment via blended finance from First Ark and the Reach Fund.
Richard Thickpenny shares insights into the development of 'Yield Sharing Finance'. Richard works for social enterprise Ashley Community Housing (ACH). Together with Resonance Limited, a social investor, the two organisations created the Yield Sharing Investment Model. Compliant with Islamic Law...
Considering social investment too often puts the cart before the horse. Here's how Access’ new Enterprise Development Programme is helping organisations like Primal Roots to take back the reins.
Big Society Capital's new Engagement Manager, Katie Fulford-Smith, shares her first impressions of the social impact investing world and her introduction to Good Finance at Good Finance Live in Newcastle.
Together with Good Finance, Vonne and Access - The Foundation for Social Investment , Big Society Capital was delighted to be part of the first ever Good Finance Live. It's aim was to provide a space where social enterprises and charities who were actively looking for capital could meet with a wide...
Social impact is a term that's thrown around all over the place - about 3,610,000,000 search results on Google. But there's no one-size-fits-all definition for it.
At Let's Talk Good Finance in Birmingham, the Community Giants director John Palmer talks about why they decided to take on social investment through NatWest Social & Community Capital and shares their experience. We also hear from John Murray, a loans officer at NatWest Social & Community Capital...
After 32 Let’s Talk Good Finance (LTGF) events , there has been a lot of learning about what social investment is and what it isn’t. Here, we take a look at the highlights from that learning.
It’s often pretty darn expensive to help people in need or tackle environmental issues, as well you know. Trouble is, the grants won’t keep coming forever, donations to charities are dropping , and public-sector funding is as elusive as an agreed deal on Brexit.