Sweet treats selected from your social enterprise and impact investing news releases. This week: €800k for Irish social enterprise training, new fund for fashion industry innovations, soap enterprise invites others to "steal its staff", and more...
Bristol & Bath Regional Capital, set up in 2015 to connect investors with promising community projects in south-west England, is launching its own fund for the first time. Pioneers Post finds out why.
The social investment intermediary Numbers for Good is to close by the end of March, citing 'difficult market conditions for advisory services in the sector' and 'continual pressure on the level of fee income'.
Since the government-backed social investment wholesaler launched in 2015, it has been distributing funding to others to allocate. Now the first of its money has reached a social enterprise.
The absence of figures from two major players leaves us wondering about the potentially huge pipline of money available; new figures from Key Fund very impressive.
It's Friday. Which means it's the day before Social Saturday. Do you know what you're doing tomorrow? If you're anywhere near Manchester, Deansgate is the place to be.
Based in Sheffield, Key Fund are the biggest and most prolific regional social investor in the UK. We took a look at their growth and one of the social enterprises they've invested in - Treestation.
