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UK launches first local authority Social Impact Bond

23 November 2012

The only way is Essex: first local authority SIB to fund £3.1m programme to improve lives for vulnerable young people ...more
Brazil’s Vox Capital impact investing fund gets $4m equity investment from MIF

21 November 2012

Fund to offer long-term financing for SMEs and start-ups serving the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) ...more
First ‘Social Impact Venture Capital Trust’ launched in UK

15 November 2012

Retail market opens for social investment as FSE Group and Social Finance launch new vehicle to raise up to £20m of investment in socially-motivated businesses. ...more
Record £10m investment for homelessness property fund

6 November 2012

Housing association commits largest single injection to into a UK impact investment fund ...more
UK’s Big Society Capital invests a pure £1m

16 October 2012

PURE – the Clean Planet Trust says the £1m will help fund up to 70 community energy projects ...more
Fancy a Bonk? Invest in good pants

15 October 2012

'The Bonk of Pants' – neither a Bank nor a Bond – it's a Bonk offering 10.2% annual interest! ...more
Investment readiness fund hands out first £1m

21 September 2012

The first awards from the £10m Investment and Contract Readiness Fund were announced this week – alongside the UK’s first Social Investment Readiness Charter. ...more
Call goes out to City as Big Society Capital says it will invest £50m by end of year

13 September 2012

City of London Corporation also commits £20m and calls on ‘other City institutions to follow suit’ ...more
British High Commission backs impact investment efforts in South Africa

2 September 2012

Moves are afoot to introduce new policy – and possibly a new corporate form – for social business in South Africa ...more
Game on for the social investment octathlon!

29 August 2012

by
James Perry

James Perry sets out eight big questions to crack this coming year for social investment to succeed. ...more

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Real Ideas Organisation

The Social Investment Business

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Village Capital London

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