December 2010
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Merry Christmas from CAF Venturesome
We’ll be back in the new year! Wishing readers of the blog old and new a very Merry Christmas.
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WatchUnveiling the map of CAF Venturesome investments!
As part of our commitment to developing a responsible social investment market, CAF Venturesome believes that greater investor transparency is critical.
Since we started in 2002, Venturesome has offered loans to 261 charities and social enterprises.* We have a rolling programme of investments, so this number increases each month following our...
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Charities get the investment go-ahead from the...
This week saw what will surely be remembered as a milestone in the development of the social investment market: the much-anticipated approval from the Charity Commission that charities can choose to invest for social, as well as financial, returns.
CAF Venturesome, who will participate in the consultation on the guidance before it is fully launched next Spring, hopes it will eventually...
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Clear call for impact investors to improve their... →
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Venturesome hosts Impact Investing learning event
Yesterday CAF Venturesome hosted an education round table on Impact Investing. Organised in collaboration with AlphaMundi, Marminie, Lapiluz and the Social Stock Exchange, the event was well attended with representatives from Monitor, The World Bank, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Chelwood Capital, Barclays Capital, Big Issue Invest, Big Lottery Fund and others.
Presentations were...
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Skoll:Emerge conference a huge success
Paul Cheng, Senior Investment Manager, attended the Skoll Emerge conference in Oxford during the weekend of 27/28 November 2010. Emerge is the UK’s largest social entrepreneurship conference for students - attracting over 400 participants from around the world.
The conference heard inspirational (and wonderfully irreverent) keynote speeches from Liam Black (CEO of Wavelength), Bunker Roy...