Our members
Acorn Fund
Description Acorn Fund is an established gap funder dealing with business applications only where the business is either job creating or job safeguarding, and unable to access mainstream funds. Grants are also available for start-up businesses.
Loan Type Business
Website www.hullbdf.com
Email p.sykes@hullbdf.com
Address Hull Business Development Fund Limited, Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce, 34-38 Beverley Road, Hull HU3 1YE
Telephone 01482 324 976
Fax 01482 213 962
Aston Reinvestment Trust (ART)
Description ART is a leading local Community Development Finance Institution working for the Birmingham area. It provides access to finance for small businesses and social enterprises that are unable to access full finance from the banks. It focuses on creating or safeguarding jobs and supporting local services. In 13 years ART has delivered over £8m in loans ranging from £10k – £50k and levered in more by working in partnership with banks and sector specialists.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise
Website http://www.reinvest.co.uk
Email art@reinvest.co.uk
Address 69 Aston Road North, Birmingham, B6 4EA
Telephone 0121 359 2444
Fax 0121 359 2333
Bees Knees
Description Bees Knees provides business loans up to £15,000 and can invest in any sector to access finance to support the start and growth of viable small businesses.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.bees-knees.org
Email Clive.Pawson@Bees-Knees.org
Address North Lincolnshire Developments Ltd, Unit 5a, Normandy Gateway, Lysaghts Way, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN15 9YG
Telephone 01725 275 170
Fax
Big Issue Invest
Description Big Issue Invest is a specialised provider of finance to social enterprises and CDFI’s seeking to scale up and find business solutions that create social and environmental transformation. Part of The Big Issue group of companies, it is led by social entrepreneurs and experienced social financiers.We provide finance for social enterprises in the form of loans, participation loans (where repayment is linked to the future performance of the enterprise) and equity. We work closely with social enterprises to tailor our finance to fit with their growth needs and repayment capability. We can offer finance between £50,000 and £500,000. Big Issue Invest is accredited both as a wholesale and retail CDFI and can offer Community Investment Tax Relief to Investors.
Loan Type Social enterprise
Website http://www.bigissueinvest.com
Email enquiries@bigissueinvest.com
Address 1-5 Wandsworth Road, London SW8 2LN
Telephone 0207 526 3434
Fax
Black Country Reinvestment Society (BCRS)
Description Our loan fund has been especially designed to meet the needs of local businesses. We understand that getting business finance can sometimes be a problem. Lack of track record, unreasonable security arrangements, past financial problems or simply not meeting conventional credit scoring methods may be hindering the process.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise
Website http://www.bcrs.org.uk
Email enquiries@bcrs.org.uk
Address Black Country Reinvestment Society, Technology Centre, Wolverhampton Science Park, Glaisher Drive, Wolverhampton WV10 9RU
Telephone
Fax 01902 428 030
Bridges Ventures
Description Founded in 2002, Bridges Ventures is a private investment company majority-owned and managed by its Executive Directors and the Bridges Charitable Trust. We benefit greatly from the support, expertise and contact networks of the private equity companies that have backed us since inception, Apax Partners, 3i and Doughty Hanson. It is a founding principle of our company that all the funds that we raise aim to achieve dedicated social and/or environmental goals as well as aiming to achieve financial returns for investors. We pride ourselves on working closely with the companies we back and we are committed to helping entrepreneurs achieve long-term success for their businesses.
Loan Type Social enterprise
Website http://www.bridgesventures.com
Email info@bridgesventures.com
Address Bridges Ventures Ltd, 1 Craven Hill London W2 3EN
Telephone 020 7262 5566
Fax 020 7262 6389
Bristol Enterprise Development Fund (BEDF)
Description If you are looking for business loan finance to start or expand your enterprise in the Bristol area you can apply to Bristol Enterprise Development Fund for a loan. If you need to raise more money than the bank can lend we may be able to help. We offer favourable rates of interest for unsecured lending and may provide a business mentor to help you in the first year of the loan.
We support viable business proposals in Bristol and the West Country, including South Gloucestershire, Bath & North East Somerset and North Somerset.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise
Website http://www.bedf.co.uk
Email info@bedf.co.uk
Address The Fund Managers, Bristol Enterprise Development Fund Limited, The Coach House, 2 Upper York Street, St. Pauls, Bristol BS2 8QN
Telephone 0117 944 4700
Fax
Business Enterprise Fund
Description The Business Enterprise Fund is a single source of assistance for businesses seeking to access finance from main stream lenders or for businesses that have been turned down by the high street banks. We will assist you in putting together a credible business plan and then use our large network of contacts to source the finance necessary for that purpose. If you are unable to gain funding from mainstream lenders, you can apply for a loan from £500 to £100,000. We have just revised our product range which now includes interest rates from 7% to 14%. We can turn round applications in 4 weeks and are actively looking to help businesses in West & North Yorkshire.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.befund.org/
Email info@befund.org
Address Devere House, Vicar Lane, Little Germany, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 5AH
Telephone Bradford: 01274 207 217 Leeds: 0113 2470 000
Fax
Business Finance North West – BBV
Description BBV Ltd, established in 1983, provides financial, technical and management assistance in the North West to help local people start, run and grow their businesses creating wealth and employment.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.bbvonline.net
Email info@bbvonline.net
Address Bolton Business Centre, 46 Lower Bridgeman Street, Bolton BL2 1DG
Telephone 01204 391400
Fax
Business Finance Solutions
Description Business Finance Solutions is a not-for-profit, Government-backed initiative providing alternative finance for existing and start up businesses in the Greater Manchester boroughs of Manchester, Stockport, Salford, Tameside, Trafford, and across Cheshire.
We run a Small Business Loan scheme to help start-up or growing businesses who have been refused loans from mainstream sources such as high-street banks etc.
We support hundreds of businesses helping create and safeguard hundreds of jobs and generate millions of pounds in investment in the region.
We support social inclusion by opening up opportunities to entrepreneurs who might otherwise struggle to raise finance from mainstream lenders (including women, members of ethnic minority groups and individuals in deprived areas).
Loan Type
Website http://www.business-finance-solutions.org.uk/
Email
Address The Enterprise Fund Limited, Lee House, 90 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester M1 5JW
Telephone 0161 245 4977
Fax
Capitalise Business Support
Description Our aim is to encourage entrepreneurship by making finance available to people who cannot access loans or credit from banks or building societies.
Our scheme is aimed at helping Sussex, Kent and Surrey based micro, small and medium enterprises and social enterprises in order to achieve positive social change and to bring wealth to disadvantaged communities.
Loans may be provided to assist businesses and social enterprises to start up and, if established, to grow and prosper. Once the loan has been provided we will provide invaluable mentoring support throughout the term of the loan.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise
Website http://www.capitalise.org/contact.htm
Email info@capitalise.org
Address Capitalise Business Support, Summerfields Business Centre, Bohemia Road, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 1UT
Telephone 0845 601 8326
Fax 01424 205501
Charity Bank
Description Charity Bank provides loans and guarantees and related business support to charities, social enterprises and other community and voluntary organisations.
Loan Type Social enterprise
Website http://www.charitybank.org
Email enquiries@charitybank.org
Address 194 High Street, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1BE
Telephone 01732 744 040
Fax 01732 774 069
Cooperative and Community Finance
Description Co-operative and Community Finance exclusively serves the co-operative and social enterprise sector, and for nearly 40 years we have supported hundreds of businesses ranging from small community-run enterprises to large award-winning organisations. We provide sympathetic loan finance to help people take control of their economic lives and create social benefit.
Loan Type Social enterprise
Website http://www.co-opandcommunityfinance.coop/
Email info@co-opandcommunityfinance.coop
Address Brunswick Court, Brunswick Square, Bristol BS2 8PE
Telephone 01179 166 750
Fax 01179 166 751
Coventry and Warwickshire Reinvestment Trust (CWRT)
Description Coventry and Warwickshire Reinvestment Trust provides business and personal finance to people and businesses based in the city of Coventry and the County of Warwickshire.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise, Personal
Website www.cwrt.uk.com
Email
Address 33 City Arcade, Coventry CV1 3HX
Telephone 0845 606 6216
Fax
Donbac
Description Donbac has been established in Doncaster for over 20 years, as an Enterprise Agency and Loan Fund, providing advice and support to clients interested in starting a new business or clients with an existing business in the area.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.donbac.co.uk
Email info@donbac.co.uk
Address Donbac Limited, Doncaster Business Innovation Centre, Ten Pound Walk, Doncaster, DN4 5HX
Telephone 01302 341 070
Fax
DSL Business Finance
Description DSL is a CDFI providing loan finance to small businesses and social economy organisations in the central belt of Scotland, specialising in micro and gap finance for start-up and high growth companies.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise
Website http://www.dsl-businessfinance.co.uk
Email info@dsl-businessfinance.co.uk
Address DSL, Moorpark Court, 5 Dava Street, Govan, Glasgow G51 2JA
Telephone 0141 425 2930
Fax 0141 425 2931
East London Small Business Centre (ELSBC)
Description Established over 30 years ago, East London Small Business Centre supports and develops new and existing businesses through a range of business support services. A key part of our services is the loan fund activity which is in access of £6 million. Every year, over £2 million is lent to start-ups and existing businesses. All our loan fund applicants are supported through our business support services – ensuring a survival rate higher than the national average.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.goeast.org
Email elsbc@goeast.org
Address ELSBC, Universal House, 99-94 Wentworth Street, London E1 7SA
Telephone 020 7377 8821
Fax
Enterprise Answers
Description Enterprise Answers is a sustainable, independent organisation providing financial services across Cumbria with the aim of creating social improvement and business development returns.
Loan Type Business
Website www.enterpriseanswers.co.uk
Email enquiries@enterpriseranswers.co.uk
Address The Office, Mardale Road, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 9EH
Telephone 01768 867 118
Fax 01768 867 111
Enterprise Northern Ireland Loan Fund
Description The Enterprise Northern Ireland Loan Fund is designed to operate in the void between mainstream lenders (Banks & other regulated financial institutions) and unregulated lenders (doorstep money lenders). The aim is to provide finance to both Start-Up and Existing businesses that do not have access to mainstream finance, to prevent them from having no finance available or from having to approach the unregulated lending market. All our loans are fixed-rate unsecured personal loans for business purposes.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.enterpriseni.com
Email pa@enterpriseni.com
Address Enterprise Northern Ireland, Aghanloo Industrial Estate, Aghanloo Road, Limavady BT49 0HE
Telephone 028 7776 3555
Fax
First Enterprise Business Agency (FEBA)
Description FEBA specialises in providing business support and advice to people from disadvantaged communities; however this service is not exclusive and everyone is welcome. As an agency that prides itself on supporting such a diverse community, we have an expert team of Enterprise Development Officers who understand the cultural, financial and business needs that these groups might have.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.first-enterprise.co.uk
Email info@enterpriseloanseastmidlands.co.uk
Address First Enterprise Business Agency, 90 Radford Road, Nottingham NG7 5FU
Telephone 0845 602 7355
Fax
Five Lamps
Description Five Lamps is one of the largest community led social enterprises within the North East.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise, Personal
Website http://www.fivelamps.org.uk
Email http://www.fivelamps.org.uk/?q=contactform
Address Eldon Street, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees TS17 7DJ
Telephone 0800 458 0120 (PERSONAL LOANS) 01642 608 316 (BUSINESS)
Fax
Foundation East
Description Business Finance in the East of England, lending where the bank says no.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise
Website http://www.foundationeast.org
Email info@foundationeast.org
Address Saxon House, 7 Hillside Buisness Park, Kempson Way, Bury St Edmunds Ip32 7EA
Telephone 0845 293 7751
Fax 01284 719 089
Fredericks Foundation
Description Fredericks Foundation is a charity that helps disadvantaged people to set up, or expand their own business as a means to achieve financial independence while rebuilding their confidence and self esteem.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise
Website http://www.fredericksfoundation.org/
Email mail@fredericksfoundation.net
Address Fredericks House, 39 Guildford Road, Lightwater, Surrey GU18 5SA
Telephone 01276 472 722
Fax 01276 472 005
FSY
Description FSY offers business finance to Yorkshire-based small and medium enterprises (SMEs), with business mentoring and management support through our Mentorbank scheme.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.finance-yorkshire.com
Email info@finance-yorkshire.com.com
Address Finance Yorkshire, 1 Capitol Court, Capitol Business Park, Dodworth, Barnsley S75 3TZ
Telephone 0845 649 0000
Fax
Full Circle Loan Fund
Description Training, support and finance for women into self employment and employment.
Loan Type Business, Social Enterprise
Website http://www.weetu.org/cms.php?page_id=30
Email admin@weetu.org
Address Full Circle Loan Fund, WEETU Ltd, 2 Redwell Street, Norwich NR2 4SN
Telephone 01603 230 625
Fax
GLE oneLondon
Description A leading provider of non-bank business finance in the UK.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise
Website http://www.gle.co.uk
Email businesslondon@gle.co.uk
Address 10 – 12 Queen Elizabeth Street, London SE1 2JN
Telephone 020 7403 0300
Fax 020 7940 1742
Goole Development Trust
Description Goole Development Trust is a not for private profit company Limited by Guarantee. We are owned and controlled by the community and our mission is to assist with the economic, social and environmental regeneration of Goole and the surrounding areas.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise
Website http://www.gooledevelopmenttrust.org.uk
Email info@gooledevelomenttrust.org.uk
Address 17-23 Gladstone Terrace, Goole DN14 5AQ
Telephone 01405 766 076
Fax
Hastings Trust
Description The Hastings Trust has set up Innovative Finance, specifically to support the regeneration of Hastings and St Leonards. We offer two kinds of loan to those who cannot get loans from the main financial institutions: the Return to Work Loan and the Personal Loan.
Loan Type Personal
Website http://www.hastingstrust.com/ht/web/charity/ht.nsf/page/grantapplications.html
Email post@hastingstrust.co.uk
Address Hastings Trust, 35 Robertson Street, The America Ground, Hastings TN34 1HT
Telephone 01424 446 373
Fax 01424 436 740
HBV Enterprise
Description HBV is a Hackney-based charity and enterprise agency helping to reduce poverty and unemployment. We do this by encouraging enterprise in Hackney and certain other London boroughs.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.hbv.org.uk/
Email mail@hbv.org.uk
Address HBV Enterprise Centre, 34-38 Dalston Lane, London E8 3AZ
Telephone 020 7254 9595
Fax 020 7241 7075
Impetus
Description We’re here to help the local economy grow and thrive by providing funds to develop new work and job opportunities. We are a source of enterprise finance making loans to applicants who have difficulty securing finance from other lenders.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.impetus-marches.co.uk
Email info@impetus-marches.co.uk
Address The Garden House, Queen Elizabeth Drive, Pershore, Worcs WR10 1PZ
Telephone 01386 556 000
Fax
Isle of Wight Lottery
Description The Isle of Wight Lottery was set up specifically to assist entrepreneurs who have had difficulty accessing finance through traditional methods. The Lottery generates a Loan Fund which is available for island entrepreneurs to borrow interest free to either start or expand their business. Criteria for the loans are that it must be creating a job and the amount of the loan is up to 50% of the total project’s cost with a minimum of £2,000 and a maximum of £25,000 available.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.isleofwightlottery.com/lottery-business-loans/
Email enquiries@isleofwightlottery.com
Address The Isle Of Wight Lottery, Mill Court, Furrlongs, Newport, Isle of Wight PO30 2AA
Telephone 01983 529 888
Fax
Lancashire Community Finance
Description Lancashire Community Finance, formerly Preston MoneyLine, is a Community Development Finance Institution providing loans at fair market rates to individuals and small businesses in the Lancashire area.
Loan Type Business, Personal
Website http://www.lancashirecommunityfinance.co.uk/
Email info@lancashirecommunityfinance.co.uk
Address 4 Fleet Street, Preston PR1 2UT
Telephone 01772 556 877 OR 0844 561 1292
Fax
London Rebuilding Society (LRS)
Description London Rebuilding Society provides loan finance for social enterprises in the Greater London Area. LRS has made a total of 120 loans since its launch in 2001, amounting to over £3 million, with an average loan size of £25k-£30k. Loans have been made across all industry sectors, from creative industries to waste management. Many of these loans were to customers who had already successfully borrowed from LRS, demonstrating LRS’ ongoing support for the Social Enterprise sector.
Loan Type Social enterprise
Website http://www.londonrebuilding.com
Email info@londonrebuilding.com
Address 7th Floor, 45 Moorfields, Moorgate, London EC2Y 9AE
Telephone 020 7997 7333
Fax
MCF Loans
Description MCF has been set up to provide credit to people, businesses and community groups who can’t get credit from the well-known banks and building societies.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise, Personal
Website http://www.derbyloans.co.uk
Email
Address Suite 17, Rosehill Business Centre, Normanton Road, Derby DE23 6RH
Telephone
Fax
Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF)
Description Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF) is a £107m Fund which was set up to provide businesses across Merseyside with funding to start and grow. The funds are roughly a 50:50 mix of public and private sector investment.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.afm.uk.com/msiftemphome.htm
Email http://www.afm.uk.com/contactus.htm
Address 5th Floor, Cunard Building, Pier Head, Liverpool L3 1DS
Telephone 0151 236 4040
Fax 0151 236 3060
Moneyline Yorkshire
Description The company offers low interest loans and free advice to clients about their borrowing needs. It will always refer people to the most suitable help that is available. The clients’ best interest will be paramount.
Loan Type Personal
Website http://www.fisy1.co.uk/
Email admin@fisy1.co.uk
Address 6 The Gallery, Castle Market, Sheffield S1 2AJ
Telephone 0114 276 0787
Fax
North London Community Finance
Description North London Community Finance (NLCF) comprises three separate but connected companies: North London Credit Union, a savings and loans organisation founded in 1994, owned and managed by its members and regulated by the Financial Services Authority; North London Enterprise Fund (NLEF), a company limited by guarantee and established in 2008, which makes loans to business using funds provided by the London Development Agency; and North London Community Finance (NLCF) itself, a not for profit organisation deisgned to assist in promoting and providing training in financial literacy.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise, Personal
Website http://www.northlondoncommunityfinance.org
Email Peter.L@northlondoncommunityfinance.org
Address 3 George Mews, Enfield, Middlesex EN2 6JA
Telephone 020 8366 8244
Fax
Norfolk and Waveney Enterprise Services Ltd (NWES)
Description NWES is a registered enterprise agency working in partnership with both the public and private sector to provide business support, boost self-employment and encourage entrepreneurship.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.nwes.org.uk
Email advance@nwes.org.uk
Address Norwich Enterprise Centre, 4b Guildhall Hill, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 1JH
Telephone 0845 491 8735
Fax
Parity Trust (formerly South Coast Moneyline)
Description Provides secured Home Trust Loans to local authorities across the South East of England; unsecured personal loans; business loans; asset development finance for social enterprises and our Smart Money education programme.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise, Personal
Website http://www.paritytrust.org.uk
Email mail@paritytrust.org.uk
Address Parity Trust, East Wing, 1000 Lakeside, Western Road, North Harbour, Portsmouth PO6 3EN
Telephone 02392 375 921
Fax
Robert Owen Community Banking Fund
Description A new CDFI offering fairer local finance. we take in investments at a good rate of return and will lend your money to local businesses and individuals. We support new and existing social enterprises and new business start up.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise, Personal
Website http://www.rocbf.co.uk
Email http://www.rocbf.co.uk/contact
Address Robert Owen Community Banking Fund, 26 Market Street, Newtown SY17 5NJ
Telephone 01686 623 741
Fax
Rootstock
Description Rootstock is a social investment society set up as an initiative of the Radical Routes network of co-operatives. Radical Routes is a growing network of housing co-ops, co-operatively run social centres and workers’ co-operatives working for social change. We invite individuals and organisations make ethical investments in Rootstock. Rootstock then invests money into Radical Routes. Radical Routes is then able to make loans to its member co-operatives. Rootstock’s ethical investment fund is responsible for helping to house hundreds of people and create bases where people can work from to help make changes to the world for the better.
Loan Type Social enterprise
Website http://www.rootstock.org.uk
Email info@rootstock.org.uk
Address Rootstock, BM Rootstock, London WC1N 3XX
Telephone 0870 458 1132
Fax
Scotcash
Description Scotcash is an independent company, set up to help the citizens of Glasgow gain access to financial services which, due to either their past or current situation, they have been unable to access. Scotcash is more than just another loans company, it can offer you a range of services and products such as Affordable Loans, Saving Accounts, White Goods Packages, Basic Bank Accounts and Money Advice.
Loan Type Personal
Website http://www.scotcash.net/
Email Info@Scotcash.glasgow.gov.uk
Address Scotcash, 55 High Street, Glasgow G1 1LX
Telephone 0141 276 0525
Fax 0141 276 0527
Sirius
Description Sirius can offer business loans to local people seeking to establish a business in the area or to expand an existing business.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.sirius-hull.co.uk
Email info@sirius-hull.co.uk
Address 8 St Augustines Gate, Hedon, Hull HU12 8EX
Telephone 01482 890 146
Fax 01482 899 253
Social Investment Scotland (SIS)
Description Our purpose is simple… to help support social businesses that are able to make sustainable social impacts in Scotland. We do this by providing access to finance, business advice, support and strategic thinking. We’ve helped almost 100 community groups, charities and social enterprises with a wide range of investment normally in the form of loans or equity.
Loan Type Social enterprise
Website http://www.socialinvestmentscotland.com
Email enquiries@SocialInvestmentScotland.com
Address 12 Broughton Place, Edinburgh EH1 3RX
Telephone 0131 558 7706
Fax
South West Investment Group (SWIG)
Description Our aim is to help businesses that help the local economy, where we will complement rather than compete with the banks. As our emphasis is on potential rather than collateral or track record, we can often fund projects where bank support is limited.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.southwestinvestmentgroup.co.uk
Email info@southwestinvestmentgroup.co.uk
Address The South West Investment Group, Lowena House, Glenthorne Court, Truro Business Park, Threemilestone, Cornwall TR4 9NY
Telephone 01872 242 470
Fax 01872 223 883
Spirit of Enterprise
Description Specialist lender of micro business loans to people with a disability, disadvantaged people with complex or additional support needs, including people with mental ill health, learning disability, sensory, physical disabilities and people from communities of common interest including veterans and ex services, young people, offenders, homeless and 50+.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise
Website http://www.northernpinetreetrust.co.uk/seo/index.htm
Email manager@pinetree-centre.co.uk
Address Pinetree Centre, Durham Road, Birtley, Co Durham DH3 2TD
Telephone 0191 492 8215
Fax
Street North East
Description StreetNE fosters growth in some of the North East’s smallest businesses by providing accessible finance and business advice. If your business is over 6 months old and you are looking for accessible business finance then StreetNE may be able to help.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise
Website http://www.streetnortheast.co.uk/
Email enquire@streetnortheast.co.uk
Address StreetNE, Portman House, Portland Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE2 1AQ
Telephone 0191 230 2080
Fax 0191 244 4001
Street UK
Description Street UK is a non-profit organisation specialising in the provision of a range of financial services for those who cannot access mainstream credit and banking services.
Loan Type Personal
Website http://www.street-uk.com
Email info@street-uk.com
Address 12-14 Regent Place, Hockley, Birmingham B1 3NJ
Telephone 0845 601 8690
Fax
The Key Fund
Description The Key Fund provides investment to social businesses working across Yorkshire and the Humber. The Key Fund offers an mix of flexible grant/loan packages and quasi-equity investment to social entrepreneurs, new and existing social enterprises and voluntary/community organisations aspring to become social enterprises.
Loan Type Social enterprise
Website http://www.keyfundyorks.org.uk
Email info@keyfundyorks.org.uk
Address Unit G2, 12 Leeds Road, Attercliffe, Sheffield S9 3TY
Telephone 0845 140 1400
Fax
Triodos Bank
Description Triodos Bank only lends to organizations which create real social, environmental and cultural value – charities, social businesses, community projects and environmental initiatives. Each one is a practical and well-grounded initiative dedicated to social aims which benefit the community, care for the environment, respect human freedom and develop individual talents and capacities
Loan Type Social enterprise
Website http://www.triodos.co.uk
Email mail@triodos.co.uk
Address Triodos Bank, Deanery Road, Bristol BS1 5AS
Telephone 0117 973 9339
Fax 0117 973 9303
The Social Enterprise Loan Fund (TSELF)
Description We provide loans to charities and social enterprises that are unable to secure sufficient funding from mainstream sources. We aim to help organisations that have a social impact, especially those working in disadvantaged communities.
We have a network of regional managers who work closely with our clients to ensure that our loans meet their needs and help them become more sustainable enterprises.
Loan Type Social enterprise
Website http://www.tself.org.uk
Email Justine@tself.org.uk
Address Justine Malone, Third Floor, 1-5 Wandsworth Road, London SW8 2LN
Telephone 020 7526 3440
Fax 020 7488 9231
Ulster Community Investment Trust (UCIT)
Description UCIT’s key aim is to develop the long-term sustainability of the social economy and move it from grant dependency to self-sufficiency. The Trust does this by providing both long and short term loan facilities combined with free banking advice, support and mentoring. UCIT has now built up a substantial client base and has, since it became operational, assisted over 170 projects with funding in excess of £25m.
Loan Type Business, Social enterprise
Website http://www.UCITLTD.com
Email info@ucitltd.com
Address 13-19 Linenhall Street, Belfast BT2 8AA
Telephone 028 9031 5003
Fax
West Yorkshire Enterprise Agency
Description West Yorkshire Enterprise Agency Loans up to £20.000 for business start up and expansion.
Loan Type Business
Website http://www.wyea.co.uk
Email keith.gomersall@wyea.co.uk
Address Elsie Whiteley Centre, Office 8, Hopwood Lane, Halifax HX1 5ER
Telephone 01422 399 422
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