Rachel from Hulme Community Garden Centre shares their story of using community shares.

Vinelife Church share their experience of being a faith-based organisation taking on a secured loan.

At Good Finance Live in Manchester, CEO of Love For The Streets CIC Jonah Ogbuneke shares their experience of taking on blended finance from GMCVO.

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Leicester, we heard from Yasin El Ashrafi, whose won several accolades with his social enterprise, HQ CAN (Creative Arts Network) and HQ Recording. HQ works with local disadvantaged people and helps them to experience and progress in the music industry.

At Let's Talk Good Finance in York, we heard from Sam Leach who is co-founder and director of Spark York (www.sparkyork.org), a community-led social enterprise who used social investment to regenerate a brownfield space and turn it into retail space.

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Braintree, CEO Matt King of mental health & wellbeing charity Trust Links talks about their experience of taking on social investment via a loan from Charity Bank

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Rochester, charity Medway Plus CEO Peter Vogel talks about their experience of taking on social investment via a loan from Kent Community Foundation. Listen to hear what it involved and the opportunities it brought their charity - including how it helped them be more sustainable & the additional support they got beyond the money.

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Salford, Alexis Johnson from charity Walk the Plank talks about their experience of taking on social investment via a bridging loan from the Arts Impact Fund. Listen to hear what it involved as well as the opportunities and challenges they have faced to be more sustainable in the long-term.

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Salford, Dr Iyabo Fatimilehin from Just Psychology CIC talks about their experience of taking on social investment via blended finance from First Ark and the Reach Fund. 

Richard Thickpenny shares insights into the development of 'Yield Sharing Finance'. Richard works for social enterprise Ashley Community Housing (ACH). Together with Resonance Limited, a social investor, the two organisations created the Yield Sharing Investment Model. Compliant with Islamic Law, this fund also provides a return to investors.

At Let's Talk Good Finance in London, LGBT charity London Friend CEO Monty Moncrieff MBE talks about their experience of taking on social investment from Charity Bank. Listen to hear what it involved and the opportunities it brought their organisation - particularly in reducing their overall costs.

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 the experience.

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Birmingham, the Community Giants director John Palmer talks about why they decided to take on social investment through NatWest Social & Community Capital and shares their experience. We also hear from John Murray, a loans officer at NatWest Social & Community Capital who talks about why they wanted to provide the investment.

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.

Hear from two fantastic organisations working across the housing and property sector

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 open a charity shop to support the work they do.

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.

In June the Social Impact Investors Group held a learning session for Foundations at the Barrow Cadbury Trust in London, on the theme of Social Enterprises and the Law.

In June the Social Impact Investors Group held a learning session for Foundations at the Barrow Cadbury Trust in London, on the theme of Social Enterprises and the Law.    

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.

Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) is a 30% tax break for individuals who invest in a charity or social enterprise.