Click here to download the article in printer-friendly PDF Ethical investment has come a long way since the mid eighteenth century, when the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) prohibited members...
Click here to download this article in printer-friendly PDF Triodos Bank has been at the heart of investing for positive social and environmental change for over 30 years, pioneering among...
Download this article in printer-friendly PDF Microfinance can be defined as the provision of access capital in low and deprived economies. While the microfinance industry has its historical roots in...
Click here to download the article in printer-friendly PDF Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is a large charitable trust with £827m of assets, making grants of about £35m and £4m-£5m of social...
Click here to download the article in printer-friendly PDF The Charity landscape is changing. Pressures of the economic climate, together with an increasing number of charities means there is effectively...
Click here to download the article in printer-friendly PDF Social investment is about using repayable finance to make a positive difference to people’s lives and the communities in which they...
Click here to download the article in printer-friendly PDF In recent years social investment, by which I mean the provision of finance to generate social and/or environmental as well as...
Download the article in printer-friendly PDF Social investment tax relief (‘SITR’) is a new form of tax relief for individual investors who invest into community benefit societies, charities and community...
Download the article in printer-friendly PDF here Many studies have defined the various types of philanthropists and philanthropic activities. They show that philanthropists have divers e motivations and that there...
Click here to download the article in printer-friendly PDF It’s always refreshing to hear about new methods of funding and the current hot topic is social investment. It’s certainly generating...