Social Investment Business (SIB), Access and Power to Change recently released a review looking at how our three organisations are performing in serving the needs of minoritised ethnic communities (report found here). This research highlighted the continued need for better data, shared openly, to (i) continue evidencing the barriers that Read more…
Futurebuilders England was a ground-breaking, Government-backed social investment fund that provided loan financing to social sector organisations in England to help them bid for, win, and deliver public service contracts. Created in 2004, Futurebuilders was one of the first social investment funds in the UK and Social Investment Business (SIB) Read more…
Futurebuilders England was a ground-breaking, Government-backed social investment fund that provided loan financing to social sector organisations in England to help them bid for, win, and deliver public service contracts. Created in 2004, Futurebuilders was the first social investment fund in the UK and SIB has been running the Fund Read more…
We’re excited to be able to share the new online dashboard from Resilience and Recovery Loan Fund, run by Social Investment Business (SIB), with an initial £25m investment and support from Big Society Capital, and supported by delivery partners Big Issue Invest, Charity Bank and Social and Sustainable Capital. SIB have Read more…
At SEDL, we are aiming to provide granular, targeted and current data to help those looking to make hard decisions on how to best deploy and prioritise COVID-19 response resources. We hope this level of data is helpful to both government and social investors in their decision-making, but also for Read more…
Last week we used our sales data to compare the real time effect of COVID-19 on the economies of left behind places[1] to a matched sample of more affluent areas. We found that, although affluent areas are experiencing more volatility (larger % drops in sales compared to the same week Read more…