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- A nationwide community financier is rebranding to highlight its growing focus on social enterprises.
- Industrial and provident societies now have a leaflet that they can educate bankers with when faced with problems getting financial services.
- Minority group social enterprises in London will have access to new tailored business support after research found them more in need of help than other social enterprises.
- The use of Industrial and Provident Societies (IPSs) to raise share capital has grown exponentially, according to the preliminary findings of new research by Baker Brown Associates for Co-operatives UK.
- A new network of social business angels could prove the way forward when it comes to introducing private equity into the sector - in fact Equity Plus the company recruiting these angels plan to inject up to £1m in the first year.
- Community development finance institutions are reporting accelerated growth, according to the Inside Out report.
- In our Market Highlights we sought to give you some snippets - a conversation over cocktails - of what is going on in the world of social finance. Here it is time to sit back and take a better look at the story behind the highlight.
- Responsible lenders to the third sector are interested in more than just the bottom line and are becoming part of the strategic thinking of social enterprises throughout the British Isles, says Charity Bank's Malcolm Hayday.
- Do you want to tell the government how to give you money? Hilary Norman of the Office of the Third Sector invites opinions on the proposed £10m risk capital investment fund.
- Music's loss has been banking's gain, finds Elliot Frankal as he meets Duncan Sloan - who leads one of the most important teams behind the financing of the UK's social enterprise sector.
- The Cabinet Office is tendering for a partner to deliver the second phase of the Futurebuilders Fund - a programme that provides vital investment for third sector organisations delivering public services.