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.
The pandemic has seen communities come together to support each other, mutual aid groups have been set up and we have been united in our sense of gratitude and appreciation for the key workers who have kept delivering social impact.
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.
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.
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.
As always, it was fantastic to be at Social Enterprise UK ’s Social Enterprise Awards in November to celebrate the achievements of so many organisations.