Caramel Rock is a fashion and creative arts education charity based in Newham, London, providing training and opportunities.

Annoushka Deighton and Simon Borkin at Friends of Stretford Public Hall joined us for our recent Let's Talk Good Finance: Arts, Culture and Heritage event as part of our 'Hear From a Peer' panel. Listen to their experience with social investment...

Tara Cranswick, Founder at V22 joined us for our recent Let's Talk Good Finance: Arts, Culture and Heritage event as part of our 'Hear From a Peer' panel. Listen to her experiences of social investment...

Paul Burns, CEO at Tees Music Alliance joined us for our recent Let's Talk Good Finance: Arts, Culture and Heritage event as part of our 'Hear From a Peer' panel. Listen to his experiences of social investment.

CAHN is a Black-led organisation set up to address the wider social determinants to eradicate health disparities for Caribbean & African people in the United Kingdom.

Think2Speak is an organisation who works to empower LGBTQ children, young people and their families - amplifying their voices, providing support and offering hope.

Nemi Teas are a specialist London-based tea company that offers a variety of tea blends both as loose-tea and teabags and a Chai Syrup. They provide employment to refugees to give them local work experience and job readiness skills to enter the UK workforce and help them integrate into broader society. 

On this episode of our latest podcast series, we explore social investment in a changing world. Throughout this series, you can hear from six brilliant charity and social enterprise leaders on their experiences, hope and fears for the future and how social investment has or might play a role.

In this episode of our latest podcast series, we explore social investment in a changing world. Throughout this series, you can hear from six brilliant charity and social enterprise leaders on their experiences, hope and fears for the future and how social investment has or might play a role.

The third podcast in our latest series explores social investment in a changing world. Throughout this series, hear from six brilliant charity and social enterprise leaders on their experiences, hopes and fears for the future and how social investment has or might play a role.

The second podcast in our latest series explores social investment in a changing world. Throughout this series, hear from six brilliant charity and social enterprise leaders on their experiences, hopes and fears for the future and how social investment has or might play a role.

In this episode, John French, Chief Operating Officer, speaks to Good Finance about Fuse Events, a social enterprise events business that delivers socially responsible, world-changing events. But what happens to your business which centres around staging world-changing events when the UK goes into lockdown?

In this episode of #AChangingWorld, we chat with Suzie who founded The Good Loaf – a social enterprise based in a town close to my heart in Northampton.

Rebecca White, CEO of Your Own Place CIC talking about her organisations’ experience of taking on social investment from Sumerian Partners, just before the covid-19 hit. Listen to hear more about her patient equity investment deal that has allowed Your Own Place to scale up activity and employ a new member of the team.  

Our Project Manager Ishita Ranjan spoke with Mark Newcombe, a founding member of The Craufurd Arms. The Craufurd Arms is a pint-sized community owned pub in Maidenhead that is tackling social isolation and a hub for creating long-lasting relationships.

Our Senior Director Melanie Mills hosted a chat with Geetha Rabindrakumar, the Director of Social Change at homelessness charity Carboard Citizens. Geetha previously worked as the Head of Engagement at Big Society Capital.

Gloucester-based sports company SoFab specifically works with young adults with learning difficulties. They received social investment from two sources, which they used to open new shops to help young adults with physical and learning disabilities into work. It's also helped them to become more sustainable.

ToolShed work with young people (15 to 19) who have had a difficult time at school and lost their confidence. They strengthen this confidence so they leave ready and focused on earning their own living.

Ray Hughes, Wellington Orbit, took on SITR and community shares to transform an HSBC building in Wellington. From a bank to a new arthouse, cinema and café bar. In this podcast Ray shares how they made the vision a reality.

Spitfire provides free, confidential and impartial advice for people in Birmingham. To date, they've rescheduled more than £2million worth of debt. In 2018 alone 130 people accessed their employment service.

Listen to Tracee's story to gain an insight into the journey she went through to receive social investment.

In this podcast, Stacey-Jade gives you an inside look into the challenges she faced when going for investment. She also shares some top tips for anybody feeling hesitant around taking on a loan.

Shaun Doran, CEO FRC Group, shares the good, bad and ugly story of their road to social investment. FRC Group used social investment to tackle furniture poverty.

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.