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Medway Plus on their social investment journey & more from Let’s Talk Good Finance, Rochester

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Rochester, charity Medway Plus CEO Peter Vogel talks about their experience of taking on social investment via a loan from Kent Community Foundation. Listen to hear what it involved and the opportunities it brought their charity - including how it helped them be more sustainable & the additional support they got beyond the money.
You'll also hear from Chris Strang at Charity Bank and Joanne Wedderspoon at CAF Venturesome talk about the social investment they do & how it works. Steve Kemp from Medway Voluntary Action also talks about how the financial landscape in the region has changed and why it's important for charities and social enterprises to learn about social investment.
 
 

Let’s Talk Good Finance - London

At Let's Talk Good Finance in London, LGBT charity London Friend CEO Monty Moncrieff MBE talks about their experience of taking on social investment from Charity Bank. Listen to hear what it involved and the opportunities it brought their organisation - particularly in reducing their overall costs.
 
You'll also hear from Toyin Miller at SASC and Matt Harrison at Homeless Link talk what their organisation's social investment funds. Deborah Smart at Social Investment Business also talks about the Enterprise Development Programme.
 
 

Let’s Talk Good Finance - Leeds

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Leeds, The Link CIC managing director Tina Jackson talks about why they decided to take on social investment through Big Issue Invest. Listen to hear about the challenges they faced and the opportunities social investment brought. Tina also shares her key learnings from the experience.
 
Let's Talk Good Finance is a series of regional events across the UK offering charities and social enterprises the opportunity to learn about social investment as a tool to fund and scale-up their operations.
 
The Link CIC provides therapeutic support around mental health to children and young people.
Big Issue Invest is the social investment arm of The Big Issue Group. They provide loans and investment to social enterprises and charities across the UK.
 
 

Community Giants shares their experience of taking on social investment

At Let's Talk Good Finance in Birmingham, the Community Giants director John Palmer talks about why they decided to take on social investment through NatWest Social & Community Capital and shares their experience. We also hear from John Murray, a loans officer at NatWest Social & Community Capital who talks about why they wanted to provide the investment.
Have a listen to find out what the challenges were as well as the opportunities that taking on social investment offered.
Let's Talk Good Finance is a series of regional events across the UK offering charities and social enterprises the opportunity to learn about social investment as a tool to fund and scale-up their operations.
The Community Giants are a not for profit organisation whose primary focus is the advancement of young people who find themselves in challenging circumstances.
NatWest Social & Community Capital offers a helping hand to social ventures looking to scale, through loans, provided with flexible terms and business support.
For more on Let's Talk Good Finance and other upcoming events, visit: www.bigsocietycapital.com/letstalkgoodfinance.

Good Finance Live Newcastle: Roundup of the day

Good Finance Live is a new one-day event which aims to provide a space where social enterprises and charities who are actively looking for capital could meet with a wide range of social investors - all in one place.
 
In this podcast, you can hear a roundup of the day including what's new in social investment.
 
It features the latest on:
Enterprise Development Programme
GET INFORMED: Social Investment for Boards
The Reach Fund
Northern Cultural Regeneration Social Investment Fund
 
 

Hear from a Peer: Dom Ryan, One Unite Partnership - Newcastle, 27 September 2018

One Unite Partnership's co-founder Dom Ryan talks about how investment from Northstar Ventures provided working capital to help them scale and grow their not-for-profit energy and telecoms company.
 
Have a listen to find out what the challenges were as well as the opportunities that taking on social investment offered.

Hear from a Peer: Christina Murrell, Veterans at Ease

 
Veterans at Ease managing director Christina Murrell talks about their social investment journey. Having started as a very grant-dependant organisation, they had to re-think their business model to become more sustainable. This led them to use social investment from the Key Fund, which helped them open a charity shop to support the work they do.
 
 

Hear from a Peer: Richinda Taylor, EVA Women’s Aid - Newcastle, 27 September 2018

EVA Women's Aid chief executive Richinda Taylor talks about they used secured finance from Charity Bank. They used this social investment to buy a property and opened up the UK's first safe house for older women.
 

Hear from a Peer: Dave Parker, Jazz Coop - Newcastle, 27 September 2018

Jazz Coop Co-Founder Dave Parker talks about how a community cooperative of jazz-lovers bought a pub and turned it into a music venue and education centre. They did this with the help of investment from a range of sources including 220 cooperative members and social investment from Co-operative & Community Finance.
 

Social enterprises and the law (Part 1)

In June the Social Impact Investors Group held a learning session for Foundations at the Barrow Cadbury Trust in London, on the theme of Social Enterprises and the Law.
In the first podcast, Liz Minns from Social Enterprise UK talks through what a social enterprise is, landscape mapping, examples, what they do, how they are different from charities, how they are funded and what they use social investment for.