Tagged - Social Investment

ClealySo, one of the UK's leading social investment intermediaries, has raised over £100m through its clients. The capital will be channeled to high impact social businesses.

Georgina Symons-Jones, investor relations manager at CAF Venturesome, explores whether social investment or philanthropy is the most impactful way of making a difference.

The deal flow derby brings you an update of the deals done and promising pipelines of five of the UK’s leading SIFIs in Q3 of 2015.

After feeling completely disenchanted by the mainstream financial sector, CEO of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Caroline Mason explains why the world of social finance appealed. 

Former president of the Social Enterprise Alliance Kevin Lynch explains why he's worried the work of true social enterprises "will be overshadowed and ignored" as hype around impact investment and B Corps increases.

"What we do is not charity." Big Issue Invest raises over £21m to invest in social enterprises in the UK.

Charity Bank, a leading provider of social finance in the UK, has much to celebrate already in 2016, having secured £250,000 investment.

"As funding for outcomes-based commissioning increases, so must the efforts of the sector to learn from social impact bonds to date," argues Jenny North at Impetus-PEF.

"We must accept that peer to peer lending (and crowdfunding generally) is simply not the right option for many business borrowers," argues CEO of Responsible Finance Ben Hughes.