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Expert insight into social investment and social impact by the CAF Venturesome team.
We use our experience to have a critical look at the sector. This blog features our views, opinion and news on CAF Venturesome’s activity and on the Social Investment sector as a whole. Keep up to date with us as we help charities and social enterprises thrive.
Charities and social enterprises are under even more pressure to reduce costs, maximise income where possible, whilst still delivering their social impact and growing where possible.
We’d like to share some things for you to focus on.
Since the Covid-19 lockdown in the UK, CAF Venturesome has had many new enquiries for social investment and approximately a third of our portfolio, of over 130 social organisations, has asked for a variation to the terms of their existing loans. In April, our investment committees approved several new social investments for growth and varied the terms of dozens of our existing loans. Read how they did it over video and about the organisations we've supported.
In these extraordinarily challenging times, the impact on social enterprises and charities will be significant. CAF Venturesome has a portfolio of over 130 current social investments, and we have spent the past few weeks working closely with as many of them as we can to understand what they’re facing and how we can support them. I wanted to share what we’ve learned, what we’ve done, and our plans.
We are talking to all our investees at this difficult time but we have had some really positive stories coming out of the conversations that show just how creative and resilient social enterprises and charities can be.
We understand that you maybe worried about how your small social enterprise or charity will survive if your services and customers are affected. Here are just a few things we can do to help.
We provide affordable financial support to charities, and social enterprise funding, when other lenders may be unable to help.
In this webinar we give you practical advice and guidance on how to utilise social investment.
An introduction to our team, who have a wealth of expertise in helping charities access social investment.