January 2011
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World Leprosy Day Sunday 30th January
LEPRA Health in Action marks World Leprosy Day this Sunday 30th January. LEPRA fights stigma and promotes early diagnosis through its work with communities overseas, particularly in India which has over half of the world’s cases of leprosy.
One person is diagnosed with leprosy every 2 minutes
People affected by leprosy are still discriminated against by law in some places
Leprosy is...
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Community raises £1m for new football stadium
FC United of Manchester has just announced that over £1m has been raised in less than four months through a community share issue. The investment is being used to help finance a new £3.5m, 5,000 capacity stadium complete with community and social amenities.
FC United’s remarkable achievement is exemplary of the commitment of individuals to build and retain valued local assets in a time of great...
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Social Impact Bonds – the answer to charities’...
We’re often asked our view of social impact bonds, by both charities and investors. Social impact bonds offer an exciting and innovative model, in specific situations.
Exciting, because it could (it is still early days in a long-term pilot) serve to focus commissioners, providers and investors alike on actual evidence-based results.
Innovative, because they may unlock new sources of capital for...
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Is social investment about financial or social... →
Director of Venturesome, John Kingston has written a comment piece in Third Sector this week. Click on the link above to read!
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Emilie Goodall interviewed in the Guardian on how... →
As well as interviewing CAF Venturesome’s Emilie Goodall, the piece also featured an indepth look at how Furniture Matters, one of the charities that CAF Venturesome has helped, have achieved a “resilient” rather than “dependant” funding mix.
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2011: the year of 'impact investment'?
Standardisation of language is a key step in the development of any market, including, of course, the social investment market.
‘Social investment’ has been used as a way of describing our sector since inception, although it is not widely understood and appears to be falling out of favour. In recent months, ‘impact investment’ has gained greater currency.
Indeed, in the...