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The Old Courts - using investment to create a sustainable arts centre

David Jenkins, Managing Director Arts at The Mill CIC, talks about the role social investment played in renovating property in Wigan to be used by the community with arts and culture.

Hulme Community Garden Centre share their experience of community shares

Rachel from Hulme Community Garden Centre shares their story of using community shares. They have 80% earned income and 20% grant funding, and support from Power to Change’s Community Shares Booster Programme. Rachel shares her tips on the importance of marketing and looks at why they considered social investment.

Vinelife Church on using a secured loan to support their church and charity.

Vinelife Church share their experience of being a faith-based organisation taking on a secured loan.
Pastor Phil smith talks about the secured loan that Vinelife Church took and how it helped Vinelife Church stabilise their income and carry on supporting their community.

Love For The Streets on taking social investment as a pre-revenue social enterprise Good Finance

At Good Finance Live in Manchester, CEO of Love For The Streets CIC Jonah Ogbuneke shares their experience of taking on blended finance from GMCVO.

HQ Recording on taking on blended finance at Let’s Talk Good Finance, Leicester

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Leicester, we heard from Yasin El Ashrafi, whose won several accolades with his social enterprise, HQ CAN (Creative Arts Network) and HQ Recording. HQ works with local disadvantaged people and helps them to experience and progress in the music industry.
 
Listen to the podcast to hear about how they got HQ Recording started with investment in the form of blended finance (part loan and part grant)from The Key Fund. Yasin also talks about the support he had from CASE and Voluntary Action Leicestershire - as well as offering his top tip for others considering taking out a loan. It also features a music clip from HQ (more of that can be found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKNr-IcN7C4)
 

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.
 

Careers Podcast: A Day in a Life of Social Investment Professionals

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Charity Trust Links talks about taking on social investment - Let’s Talk Good Finance, Braintree

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Braintree, CEO Matt King of mental health & wellbeing charity Trust Links (www.trustlinks.org) talks about their experience of taking on social investment via a loan from Charity Bank (www.charitybank.org).
Listen to hear:• Why they decided to take on social investment• What it involved including due diligence and reporting process• How it allowed them to gain an asset without using their reserves• How the investment helped them grow their impact
 

Walk the Plank on their social investment journey at Let’s Talk Good Finance, Salford

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Salford, Alexis Johnson from charity Walk the Plank talks about their experience of taking on social investment via a bridging loan from the Arts Impact Fund. Listen to hear what it involved as well as the opportunities and challenges they have faced to be more sustainable in the long-term.
 

Just Psychology CIC on their social investment journey at Let’s Talk Good Finance, Salford

Listen to the Just Psychology CIC story on what it involved as well as the opportunities and challenges they have faced in setting up their social enterprise.