CAF Venturesome | Our case stories

Building capacity of high impact social organisations

Alternatives Activity Centre

Training Centre
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£75,000 unsecured loan and £25,000 grant

Read AAC's story to see blended finance helped fund a skills training centre for young people transitioning from Children’s to Adult services.

Read Alternatives Activity Centre's story

Apprentice at work at London Aquatics Centre

K10 Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship Training Agency
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£200,000 unsecured loan

Read this award-winning social enterprise's story to see how an unsecured loan helped grow its sustainability and creditworthiness.

Read K10 Apprenticeship's story

Local Food Links

Children and Young People
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£425,000 (three unsecured loans)

Local Food Links used social investment to expand their kitchens and now produce 3,700 school meals daily across Dorset, using local produce and employing people in the community.

Find out more about Local Food Links

From homelessness to happiness

Prisoners Abroad | Old Spike Roastery | Change Please

How one man's life was transformed by three organisations that CAF Venturesome has supported.

Read Tom's Story

Hubbub

Environment
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£152,000 part loan/part standby facility

Investing in social media campaigns to create a vlog which has inspired over 15 million people to think differently about how they treat the environment.

Read how Hubbub are making people take notice

Restoring a historic music venue

Inner City Music
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£300,000 unsecured loans and standby facility

How social investment helped Inner City Music restore its iconic building to improve engagement with music and cultural heritage, in particular that of Manchester’s migrant communities.

Helping young people lead healthier lives

Young People Matter
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£60,000 unsecured loan for working capital

CAF Venturesome helped YPM with an usecured loan to provide an additional afterschool club in early 2020.

Read on to find out more

Bringing solar energy to the community

Energise Barnsley
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£150,000

How social investment increased Energise Barnsley’s capacity to reduce energy bills and carbon emissions for vulnerable households.

HISBE: Making sustainable food accessible to all

How sustainable social enterprise HISBE Food opened its first and second stores with social investment from CAF Venturesome.

Access to quality secondary education

Promoting Equality in African Schools
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£240,000 part loan/part standby facility

Social investment to enable PEAS to expand its schools netwrok in Sub-Saharan Africa to cater for 25,000 children by 2019.

Read the story of PEAS

Funding affordable homes

The Rural Urban Synthesis Society

In 2016 CAF Venturesome provided RUSS with a £100,000 unsecured loan, from the Community Land Trust Fund II, to meet the costs associated with getting to planning stage for the construction of 36 affordable homes in South London.