Lucy Findlay MBE explores common barriers to accessing finance, including her own lived experience as Managing Director at Social Enterprise Mark CIC , and challenges social investors to escape the 'business-as-usual' approach that enables inequity.

2022 was a turbulent time for many charities, social enterprises and community organisations. We wanted to start the year with a bit of positivity, celebrating the impact created by inspirational individuals, with help from social investment.

Smile Together is an employee-owned dental social enterprise working across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly which is dedicated to tackling oral health inequality. In 2018 they received social investment from Big Issue Invest to help open a new purpose designed, accessible dental centre.

In the fifth of our Celebrating Changemakers podcast series, we hear from Debbie Dixon, Project Manager at Poole Communities Trust.

In the next of our Celebrating Changemakers podcast series, we hear from Keri Andriana, CEO of Amschela.

I joined the team at Good Finance in June 2021 whilst completing my Level 3 Digital Marketing Apprenticeship with Multiverse. During this time, I’ve had the opportunity to develop my skill-set whilst learning about some of the incredible and life-changing work that charities and social enterprises...

It’s been several months since we hosted the Addressing Imbalance Live event. Since then, as a team we’ve reflected on many of the learnings that have come from the event and tried to understand how we can translate these into real actions. Our ‘Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals’ as Patricia Hamzahee...

TAKE ME TO THE SURVEY. Social investors are developing a pilot fund to support charities and social enterprises navigating rising energy costs by improving their energy resilience. Have your say on how you’ve been impacted and what support you need.

Back in September, we hosted the first Addressing Imbalance Live event.

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.

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.

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...