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The CDFA and community development finance in the press
Selected press coverage:
2013
31/05/2013, Information Daily – Banking the unbankable
23/05/2013, Daily – The alternative to alternative finance
20/05/2013, The Guardian – If CDFIs are forced to get ruthless
20/05/2013, Pioneers Post – Meeting £1bn unmet demand for social investment finance
13/05/2013, Bdaily – Start-Up Loans age restrictions should be scrapped
01/05/2013, Information Daily – Bring real money back to our communities
30/04/2013, Blue & Green – Growing confidence in alternative finance’ as ethical lending grows
29/04/2013, Insider Media – Sources of finance explored – Insider breakfast
25/04/2013, Daily – Young entrepreneur shapes up thanks to support scheme
25/04/2013, Pioneers Post – Ethical lending on the rise in the UK as bank lending falls
17/04/2013, Rochdale News – £1.5 million milestone for North West start-up loans
15/04/2013, BAD news – CDFIs should deliver business bank
11/04/2013, Civil Society – CDFIs best placed to deliver business bank capital, say sector bodies
10/04/2013, Daily – Loan scheme to boost Yorkshire Entrepreneurs
09/04/2013, Manchester Gazette – £24 million Manchester business loan fund launched to help businesses find finance
08/04/2013, Daily – Student entrepreneur secures Start-Up Loan for eBook business
04/04/2013, Liverpool Daily Post – MSIF hits £4m business funding tar
04/04/2013, Skelmersdale Advertiser – Lancashire Community Finance offer young entrepeneurs a helping hand with the start-up loan scheme
03/04/2013, Financial Times – Leeds fund makes a good social bet
27/03/2013, Insider media – Dudley fund makes £230k of loans since launch 26/03/2013, The Star – Record loans made by Enterprise Agency
26/03/2013, In Cumbria – Cumbrian Company hits £5m lending mark
26/03/2013, Information Daily – Where have the local bank managers gone?
26/03/2013, Information Daily – FSA’s lowering of banking entrant barriers ‘a huge step forward’
24/03/2013, Lancaster Guardian – Help at hand for young entrepreneurs
22/03/2013, Pioneers Post – CDFIs help start-up loans exceed expectations
15/03/2013, Huffington Post – Don’t put funding for lending on steroids, put it on CDFIs
08/03/2013, Guardian Social Enterprise Network – Expert advice: social enterprise and financial services
23/02/2013, Accountancy Live – Demand for alternative funding reaches £6bn
15/02/2013, Pioneers Post – Bridging the gap: £6bn finance chasm for those outside mainstream finance
15/02/2013, UK Business Angels Association – CDFA uncovers £6bn demand for community finance
13/02/2013, Third Sector – Social finance falls £2.1bn below demand, suggests report
13/02/2013, Huffington Post – The £6bn finance gap
12/02/2013, Business Zone – Unmet demand for business finance at £1.3 billion a year
12/02/2013, Real Business – £6billion gap in finance for individuals and organisations outside mainstream finance
04/02/2013, Founded By Us, Osborne orders big banks to allow for more start-up challengers
2012
19/10/2012: Management Today – Putting ‘community’ back into banking
15/10/2012: The Guardian – Community finance: social loans for your social enterprise
08/10/2012: The Guardian – Fewer defaults and better returns from green energy and housing markets, CDFIs told
08/10/2012: Real Business – The unsung heroes of community finance
08/10/2012: Guardian Social Enterprise Network – Some CDFIs’ notion of APR is not healthy, says Big Society Capital chief
08/10/2012: Credit Today – Record investment for community lending projects
08/10/2012: Fresh Business Thinking – Record amounts invested in community lending projects
05/10/2012: The Guardian – High street banks urged to ‘step aside for CDFIs’
05/10/2012: The Guardian – ‘No one knows who you are’, Vince Cable tells CDFIs
05/10/2012: The Financial Times – Community lending hits new high
05/10/2012: Management Today – Vince Cable to pump £60m into SMEs
05/10/2012: SocialEnterpriseLive – UK community finance leader says it’s time to capitalise
05/10/2012: HR Magazine – BIS anounces £60m investment to create 8,000 regional jobs
05/10/2012: Nottingham Post – £60m help for small business
05/10/2012: Manchester Evening News – Co-operative Bank backs goverment’s £60m small-firms lending fund
05/10/2012: Staffordshire Sentinel – Owners of small businesses given loans boost
05/10/2012: Insider Media – Cable launches new £60m small business fund
05/10/2012: Third Sector – Community Development Finance Association gets £60m to lend to social enterprises
05/10/2012: Regen.net – Community finance body gets RGF cash
05/10/2012: Financial News – UK Business Secretary announces £60m small business finance scheme
04/10/2012: The Guardian – Vince Cable – Another route for SMEs to access finance
04/10/2012: BusinessZone – Government backs new £60m fund for small firms in deprived communities
04/10/2012: Bdaily Business Network – Vince Cable pledges £60m fund to SMEs
04/10/2012: Social Enterprise Live – £60m fund for small and social enterprises will safeguard 8,000 jobs
04/10/2012: Fresh Business Thinking – £60 small business scheme launched through Regional Growth Fund
03/10/2012: The Business Desk – Cable to speak at Solihull conference on alternative funding
01/10/2012: The Guardian – Culture professionals network – discussion re CDFA and CDFI finance
25/09/2012: Third Sector – Transparent banking
09/09/2012: Financial Times – UK banks eye alternative lending for SMEs
22/07/2012: Social Enterprise Live – £80bn government scheme ‘a huge missed opportunity’ says ethical finance chief
14/07/2012: The Guardian – There is a better way for banking (refers to CDFI growth and CDFA’s Inside Community Finance report)
13/07/2012: BusinessZone – Dave lends where banks don’t – just like CDFIs
11/07/2012: BBC Newsnight ‘What are the options for reforming the banks’ – Newsnight’s Economics editor Paul Mason shows how community finance from CDFA member London Rebuilding Society helped a woman who worked for a bank but had been turned down for a home improvement loan
09/07/2012: Third Sector – CDFI loans grew by 35%
07/07/2012: Social Enterprise Live – Future ‘hangs in the balance’ for community finance providers despite 300% growth
26/06/2012: Third Sector magazine – CDFA’s Harry Glavan on Amendments to Financial Services Bill
25/06/2012: BBC Radio 4 You and Yours – interview with CDFA’s Sean Dennis
13/04/2012: The Portsmouth News: Forgotten cash could revitalise the area (featuring cdfa member Parity Trust)
29/03/2012: BBC Radio 4 – ‘The Bottom Line’ – CDFA former Chair Michele Giddens of Bridges Ventures on investing in deprived communities
28/03/2012: BusinessZone – the ultimate guide to raising finance for a social enterprise
25/03/2012: The Sunday Times (article behind paywall) – First, learn how to speak to a banker
21/03/2012: ResPublica Blogs – Microenterprises left in the cold
20/03/2012: BBC Radio 4 Today Programme – CDFA member Aston Reinvestment Trust are featured in this broadcast, approx 3 minutes in
12/03/2012: Third Sector magazine – interview with CDFA CEO, Ben Hughes
12/03/2012: City AM – Credit easing to boost reliance on big lenders
27/02/2012: Financial Times – FSB says Government must push alternative lenders
Feb 2012: Social Finance – JUST Finance coverage
10/02/2012: Voluntary News – JUST Finance coverage
09/02/2012: Transact – JUST Finance coverage
03/02/2012: New Start Magazine – Just Finance coverage
01/02/2012: Civil Society – JUST Finance coverage
31/01/2012: Social Enterprise Live – JUST Finance coverage
31/01/2012: Senscot – JUST Finance coverage
26/01/2012: Philanthropy UK – JUST Finance coverage
15/01/2012: The Sunday Times – Snubbed by the banks? The locals can help
