Community Finance

01/11/2023

💻 Webinar at 12pm THURSDAY 2ND NOVEMBER!Live on Facebook or via Zoom (link below).

Do you have questions about the new Homes and Income Investment Fund? Or just want to know more?

Join our MD Sam Stubbs and CEO of Community Finance James Palmer for a deep dive on our exciting new fund - why we've launched it, how it works, the benefits for investors and our big aspirations for the future.

You can leave your questions here, or ask Sam and James live.

Join us live at 12pm here, or on Zoom via this link - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89331345916

30/06/2021

We are honoured to have been named the 2021 Best Impact Investment Fund at the Mindful Money awards.

It is our privilege to be helping Aotearoa invest ethically. Thank you to our wonderful investors and the Community Housing Providers we are financing. Together, we are making a real difference.

Well done to all the finalists for your leadership and mahi.

04/06/2021

Congratulations to all of the partners involved in delivering wonderful, warm, dry new homes such as those officially opened by the Prime Minister and Minister of Housing at Flatbush and Westgate yesterday.

We especially acknowledge the leading impact investors who have provided much needed ethical finance to make this all happen.

It is also super exciting for us to be in the mix with such great impact activists at this years Mindful Money Awards...

30/09/2020

Our congratulations to Generate KiwiSaver Scheme, which has become the cornerstone impact investor in The Salvation Army New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa Territory Community Bond.

Community Finance Chief Executive James Palmer said, “We are thrilled to partner with Generate as the leading investor in this Community Bond, which will enable more life-changing work to be done for families in need in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Community Finance is proud to provide a bridge between responsible investors and projects like this, delivering lower cost finance and social impact.”

Barry Coates, Founder and CEO of Mindful Money stated: “Affordable housing was a major challenge before COVID, and now it is even more urgent. We congratulate Generate KiwiSaver for stepping up to help fund the Salvation Army’s programme. This is an example of investment for good – earning a sound return while making warm and healthy homes available to those who need them.”

Generate joins a range of existing leading impact investors in this Community Bond, including $5 million investments from both the The Tindall Foundation and Lindsay Foundation, and $2m from both Foundation North and Matua Foundation

Generate investing $15m in a bond to build community housing in three Auckland suburbs.

20/08/2020

The biggest community trust has moved into low-interest finance for social housing

20/07/2020

We congratulate impact investors and all the delivery partners on the occasion of completing more beautiful new homes for those most in need. We are so very happy to have had a opportunity to provide construction finance to the Salvation Army in support of 22 new homes at Te Manaaki Tāngata in Westgate.

The Salvation Army is taking on Aotearoa New Zealand’s housing shortage with a programme of sustainable long-term rental accommodation construction. A new, 22-house development at Westgate blessed today with karakia by kaumātua, follows the Army’s 2019 opening of a new apartment complex Te Hōn...

20/07/2020

NZ Minister of Finance Grant Robertson makes a good Southland Cheese roll, but we may have just made it better. You decide.