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Locality , a Good Finance partner, supports local community organisations to be strong and successful. Lewis Garland , Content and Media Officer for Locality, explores the impact of the cost of living crisis on their members and the users they serve.
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Annie Constable, Senior Digital Marketing and Communications Officer at Good Finance explores how charities and social enterprises can best communicate with their customers/consumers through the cost-of-living crisis.
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The thought of starting your own Social Enterprise, Charity or Community Organisation can be daunting and, as with many things, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. Henna Patel, Digital Marketing Officer at School for Social Entrepreneurs, explores 10 steps to help guide you towards start-up...
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The Good Finance team reflect on our away day to Norwich where we visited various charities and social enterprises, to learn about their mission, listen to the challenges they face and to see first hand the positive impact they have on their community.
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Lucy Findlay MBE , Managing Director of Social Enterprise Mark CIC , explores degrowth in the context of social investment.
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On Saturday, the Dormant Assets consultation was launched to help the government make an informed decision on what should happen with the £738m+ made available via the scheme. At Good Finance, we are supporting the Community Enterprise Growth Plan . This post explores what that is and crucially...
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Create Your Table is a development platform and community supporting Black-led food and drink entrepreneurs to launch and scale.
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Melanie Mills, Managing Director of Social Sector Engagements reflects on the learnings of our recent Impact Hub and explores 5 key lessons from 5 years of Good Finance…
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This piece, contributed by Eloise Malone FRSA, Executive Creative Director from Effervescent, explores the role of lived experience and how to be ready for social investment when investment is a whole new world for you.
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A recent report from Social Enterprise UK: No Going Back: The State of Social Enterprise Report 2021 highlighted that 55% of people from racialised communities feel discouraged from applying for social investment and 44% of disabled founders expect their applications to be rejected. As a result of...
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Research shows a gap in the world of financial institutions and enterprises. At Good Finance we are asking … where is the diversity of people, experience and thought on investment committees in the social investment sector? And what can we do to change this?