Henna at School for Social Entrepreneurs spoke to three social entrepreneurs in the region who’ve used social investment to increase impact and income, to learn about their experiences.
Our recent Let's Talk Good Finance: Yorkshire and Humber event was designed for those exploring social investment opportunities for the first time or anyone interested in finding out how social enterprises have taken on small amounts of repayable finance to make transformational change.
Outside the Box Café is an inclusive community café based in Ilkley, Bradford. Their mission is to enable young people and adults who have learning disabilities to have more fulfilled, independent and healthier lives.
Generation Medics supports current and future healthcare professionals to lead successful careers. It was founded by Dr. Rafique, an NHS Doctor in Oxford over seven years ago. “At Generation Medics, our goal is to help more people explore and be inspired by the opportunities available, and if they...
At Let's Talk Good Finance in Leeds, The Link CIC managing director Tina Jackson talks about why they decided to take on social investment through Big Issue Invest. Listen to hear about the challenges they faced and the opportunities social investment brought. Tina also shares her key learnings from...
EVA Women's Aid chief executive Richinda Taylor talks about they used secured finance from Charity Bank. They used this social investment to buy a property and opened up the UK's first safe house for older women.
Veterans at Ease managing director Christina Murrell talks about their social investment journey. Having started as a very grant-dependant organisation, they had to re-think their business model to become more sustainable. This led them to use social investment from the Key Fund, which helped them...
One Unite Partnership's co-founder Dom Ryan talks about how investment from Northstar Ventures provided working capital to help them scale and grow their not-for-profit energy and telecoms company.
Jazz Coop Co-Founder Dave Parker talks about how a community cooperative of jazz-lovers bought a pub and turned it into a music venue and education centre.
Let's Talk Good Finance is a series of regional events across the UK offering charities and social enterprises the opportunity to learn about social investment as a tool to fund and scale-up their operations.
The Bevy sees itself as “more than a pub” re-opening its doors in 2014 to provide a vital range of community services to the people of Moulsecombe and Bevendean.
Let's Talk Good Finance is a series of regional events across the UK offering charities and social enterprises the opportunity to learn about social investment as a tool to fund and scale-up their operations.