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.
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