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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.
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.
As a follow up to last week's blog looking back at Amir's social investment predictions for 2018, our Investment Executive, Fan, has been busy writing a few of her own for 2019.
A guest blog from our friend and former colleague, Amir Rizwan, who wrote his social investment predictions for 2018 a year ago. This post looks back at his predictions to see where we got to as a sector.
Today we launch our independent review of the two Community Land Trust funds we have managed since 2008 within the CAF Venturesome team. The report explores the increasing role of community led-housing – specifically Community Land Trusts - in tackling the UK’s ongoing crisis.
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.