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Big Society Capital (BSC) today published their annual review for 2015. The review reveals an impressive and encouraging picture for the nascent social investment market. Market Growth At the end of 2015, the review outlines that social investment in the UK was worth over £1.5bn and is being used by over 3,000 charities and social […]
Hogan Lovells kindly hosted our sixth Social Investment Academy on March 2nd 2016 where we inspired, informed and equipped our biggest audience to date. To see our video of the highlights please click here
Triple Point announced that it has delivered £1 million of SITR-qualifying social investment funding. This union between private investors and social enterprises has led to benefits in both the healthcare and education sectors. It looks to be the first of its kind delivered by a mainstream fund manager but there is hope an increase in […]
Why should advisers get involved with social impact investment, and how (Video by New Model Advisor) from Gavin Francis via Vimeo.
Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) was introduced in July 2014 to help social enterprises raise funding by offering tax reliefs to investors. In this blog we’ll explain what’s happened with SITR so far and explore why we could now be on the threshold of SITR becoming much more widely used. Recap SITR is a government […]
When we talk of risk we should look at two factors that increase, or decrease, that risk: The nature of the investment i.e. the different characteristics of an investment into equity as opposed to a loan and The nature of the investee businesses i.e. the way in which private limited companies behave as opposed to […]