Spark York on their social investment journey at Let’s Talk Good Finance, York

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.

 

Listen to the podcast to hear how they got started and the different types of investment and funding they got, which includes:

• Blended finance from Key Fund and Power to Change

• Loans from BE Fund

• Investment from individuals using Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR)as well as philanthropic donations.