Understanding and measuring social impact is crucial for community businesses to demonstrate their value and secure support. Plunkett UK’s Nick Comley provides essential principles and practical steps to help you effectively communicate the positive changes your business brings to the community.

In this brilliant guest post from Sebastian Rocca , Founder and CEO of Micro Rainbow , he explores three things to know about social investment while reflecting on his own experiences of the process...

Sebastian Rocca is Founder and CEO of Micro Rainbow. They have a vision to create a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) people are safe, free from discrimination, persecution and have equal opportunities in life, including in accessing employment, training...

Andrew Dubock, Communications Manager at Plunkett UK, explores how using social investment could support a new generation of community businesses to invest in energy saving measures, to make the businesses ‘greener’ and also reduce running costs.

Alison Macklin, Community Business Manager at Plunkett Foundation explores the importance of measuring your social impact after a Good Finance workshop at the Facing the Future Together conference.

Many community groups find the prospect of raising the significant funds required to convert local assets, such as parks, libraries, pubs, cinemas and more, into community ownership, ensuring local people have control over these spaces, particularly daunting. In this blog, we'll go over the idea of...

Sarah Benn, Membership & Training Manager at Plunkett Foundation, explores Community Shares, how they work and why they're integral to supporting community-owned businesses to thrive and survive in 2023.

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.

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...

At our recent Let's Talk Good Finance: Outdoor Spaces and Liveable Places event, we were joined by Holly Cross, Director and Project Development Manager at Cwm Arian Renewable Energy Ltd and Trewin Restorick, CEO at Hubbub Foundation.

Annoushka Deighton and Simon Borkin at Friends of Stretford Public Hall joined us for our recent Let's Talk Good Finance: Arts, Culture and Heritage event as part of our 'Hear From a Peer' panel. Listen to their experience with social investment...

Tara Cranswick, Founder at V22 joined us for our recent Let's Talk Good Finance: Arts, Culture and Heritage event as part of our 'Hear From a Peer' panel. Listen to her experiences of social investment...