Beverley Cherry Tree Community Centre is a charity based in East Yorkshire. Located on the Cherry Tree Estate, it works with those in the community struggling with varying degrees of poverty.
Promote Ability Community Enterprise CIC (P.A.C.E) delivers affordable services and housing for disadvantaged people in Derby and Derbyshire. To support this agenda, they offer a range of other services to the public and private sector; these include supported housing, a craft centre, community support and a café.
Doncaster Refurnish complete a wide range of work, collecting, restoring and selling furniture on to low income families. They run a handyman service and a women’s group with a focus on anxiety issues. They also offer training and employment to those on the margins of their local community; including rehabilitation and integration opportunities for prisoners due for release, and placements for young offenders.
Nottingham Counselling Service (NCS) is a long-standing charity specialising in working long-term with people who present complex and enduring problems, such as anxiety, depression and abuse.
The Spotted Cow is a community hub that offers a bar, restaurant, Post Office and B&B under one roof.
The Chessel Centre will offer additional quality nursery care for children in Bristol.
Barnsley Community Build (BCB) is a registered charity with a trading arm, BCB Trading Ltd. They develop and deliver a range of community services, and provide employment and training in the construction industry.
Furniture is a furniture re-use charity that supports lower income families. It used social investment to purchase a permanent base.
Golden Lane Housing, the housing arm of Mencap, used social investment to buy homes for people with a learning disability.
K10 is tackling youth unemployment by providing apprenticeships in the construction industry. It used social investment to professionalise the business and increase sustainability.
Local residents in Redruth funded the building of a wind turbine through buying community shares.
Togetherall (formerly Big White Wall) is a digital mental health and wellbeing service, which used social investment to scale their social business.