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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.
Our ultimate goal is to see strong social organisations sustaining and growing their social impact. We like to get away from our desks as often as possible, and we travel all over the country visiting social enterprises and charities. Here's a look at where we've been and what we've done this spring.
Sophie Preuss, our first On Purpose Associate, looks back at what she has learned during her six months with CAF Venturesome.
Today, on International Women’s Day 2019, we celebrate the wonderful women leading innovation in our social investment portfolio. We haven’t got the room to highlight all the stories of every amazing woman we are privileged to support, so here is a small snapshot. Thank you to you all for your hard work and dedication.
CAF Venturesome and Power to Change, are launching a pioneering offer for Community Land Trusts (CLTs) in England (ex London), with the purpose of funding community land trust schemes at the pre-planning stage. The blended finance will offer grants of up to 50% of the total social investment from CAF Venturesome’s CLT Fund for pre-development loans.
In 2014 CAF Venturesome provided The Reader, an award-winning social enterprise, based in Liverpool and operating nationally, with a £100,000 unsecured loan to enable them to expand their management and delivery team to develop their capacity and operate at a larger scale. Now the social investment has been repaid in full, we look back at what they have achieved in the last 5 years.
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.