Social Investment Business

13/07/2021

Great to see the launch of the new 4C Community Centre in Ashton from our customers Christ Church Community Developments - congratulations to all involved.

12/07/2021

It may not be coming home, but we're delighted to have made the list of the UK's top 100 social enterprises. 📣

And we're in good company with so many other fantastic social enterprises on the list - including some of our partners and customers. Congratulations to all involved and thank you to Pioneers Post, NatWest Business, NatWest Social and Community Capital and to the judges for recognising us. 🎉

02/07/2021

If you're looking to apply for the Black & Minoritised Communities or Environment Stage 1 Application windows of the Enterprise Development Programme, time is running out! ⏳

A reminder of our upcoming Stage 1 Application window deadlines. ⬇️

📌Black & Minoritised Communities with sector partner The Ubele Initiative | 6 July 2021 @ Midday
📌Environment with sector partner Groundwork | 13 July

If you think either window could suit the needs of your organisation, find out more & apply via the link below. ⬇️

Apply here Want an Easy Read Translation of this page? Click here The Enterprise Development Programme takes a collaborative and participatory approach in programme design.  Organisations apply onto the programme and, if accepted, work alongside the relevant sector-lead to outline a package of supp...

16/06/2021

Are you a leader of community business, or do you work in the wider community sector?🔍

Our partners Power to Change are looking for three new Trustee Directors to join their board: apply by 4 July. 🗓️

Find out more⬇️

Power to Change is seeking to appoint three Trustee Directors that are leaders of community businesses or in the wider community sector.

15/03/2021

🚨 The Resilience & Recovery Loan Fund | Deadline extended: don’t miss out! 🚨

Deadline: Wednesday 31 March 2021 @ 11.59pm 📅

✅Loans of £100k-£1.5m➡️1-5-year term
✅Interest-free & fee-free➡️1st 12 months ( )
✅90% approval rate for cases recommended to the Investment Committee
✅ Grants available alongside loans for & in England. 📢
Beneficial terms like the above are unlikely to be available after this – so if you’re eligible and think RRLF could suit your needs, apply before the deadline to avoid missing out on the current offer. ⌛
Apply. ⬇️

The Resilience & Recovery Loan Fund (RRLF) is a new fund for social enterprises and charities that are improving people’s lives across the UK who are experiencing disruption to their normal business model as a result of COVID-19. It has been established to make an existing government scheme (the C...

30/10/2020

🚨 The Resilience & Recovery Loan Fund | 2 weeks left to apply! 🚨

Deadline: Friday 13 Nov @ 5pm 📅

✅Loans of £100k-£1.5m➡️1-5-year term
✅Interest-free & fee-free➡️1st 12 months (in line with CBILS)
✅90% approval rate for cases recommended to the Investment Committee
✅Grants available alongside loans for charities & social enterprises in England. 📢

If you’re eligible and think RRLF could suit your needs, apply before the deadline to avoid missing out on the current offer. ⌛

Apply. ➡️https://bit.ly/2xQuyz6

07/10/2020

News 🗞️ | Youth Endowment Fund

Today the Youth Endowment Fund have launched their ten-year, £200m strategy, which details how they’ll work for change for children and young people. 📣

We're delighted to work on the Fund alongside our partners Impetus and the Early Intervention Foundation.

Sign up to join the discussion and to help shape YEF's future. ➡️ https://bit.ly/2GJj44C

06/10/2020

Acorn Early Years Foundation applied for and received a loan of £100,000 over one year from the Resilience and Recovery Loan Fund (RRLF).

Zoe Raven - CEO and Founder - shares how the loan from RRLF has helped strengthen the organisation's cash flow through the current crisis, allowing them to look forward with confidence to the next 6 months.

RRLF offers. ⬇️

✅£100k-£1.5m ➡️1-5-yr term
✅1st 12 months interest & fee-free➡️
✅Grants available with loans for England charities & social enterprises.

Apply.➡️ http://bit.ly/2xQuyz6

02/10/2020

Careers | Community Panelist 💻 | Last day to apply! 🚨

Today is the last day you can apply for our 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹.📢

We're looking for a diverse range of individuals who can help provide insights, views & feedback on the work that we do. 🗨️

You will need to have a keen interest in our different strategic areas and business functions. These include. ⬇️

✅Grant and loan decisions
✅Diversity and representation
✅Fairness and equity
✅Outreach
✅Communications
✅Fund and programme design
✅Policy
✅Impact
✅Data and Research
✅Finance
✅Governance

Apply ➡️http://bit.ly/2HdCRcV

30/09/2020

Report 📘 | Big Potential Breakthrough Evaluation – Final Report

Big Potential Breakthrough (BPB) was launched in 2014.

The funding programme was aimed at organisations who wanted support to help explore how social investment might help them and/or were looking to raise less than £500,000 of investment. 💷

BPB engaged a wide variety of charities and social enterprises from across England and provided £9.54 million in grant funding: £6.89 million across 255 preliminary grants and £2.65 million across 64 investment plan grants. 📈

Although the funding programme closed in September 2017, post-grant monitoring continued until Autumn 2018, and continuing qualitative data collection continued into May 2020. 🔎

With this being the final report, we proudly reflect on our successful partnership between the The National Lottery Community Fund and with all the delivery partners on both the BPA and BPB programmes. 🎉

Read more insights from the final report via the link below. ⬇️

Charity Bank | Social Enterprise UK | Locality | University of Northampton

The sixth year of Big Potential Breakthrough looks at the attitude of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations towards the programme and monitors its effectiveness.

29/09/2020

Application window open 🚨

Working in the Youth sector? Looking for support to build the resilience of your organisation? 🏗️

The Youth sector window for the Enterprise Development Programme with The Centre for Youth Impact is 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻. 📣

Apply via the link below. ⬇️

Applications will work slightly differently in the new version of the programme than they did in the pilot year. Previously organisations had to apply separately for a place on a training programme and/or for one of two different types of grant, feasibility or development. Having taken on feedback w...

28/09/2020

🚨 The Resilience & Recovery Loan Fund | 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱: don’t miss out! 🚨

Deadline: Friday 13 Nov @ 5pm 📅

✅Loans of £100k-£1.5m➡️1-5-year term
✅Interest-free & fee-free➡️1st 12 months CBILS)
✅90% approval rate for cases recommended to the Investment Committee
✅ Grants available alongside loans for charities & social enterprises in England. 📢

If you’re eligible and think RRLF could suit your needs, apply before the deadline to avoid missing out on the current offer. ➡️ https://bit.ly/2xQuyz6