Social investment pilots
The Office of the Third Sector has commissioned two projects to investigate ways to promote private investment in social enterprises. The projects will assess whether there is demand for investment among suitable social enterprises, and which investors may be willing to accept a blended financial and social return on their investment. They will also establish whether the lack of a network, or other infrastructure that can bring together investors and firms, is the major barrier to the growth in social investment.
Charity Bank and Community Innovation UK are leading these pilot programmes, together worth almost £200,000, to investigate how to encourage private sector investment in the third sector, deepen our understanding of how to increase the range of finance available for social enterprises, and successfully broaden the research base of the sector.
The findings of the projects – which will run until March 2008 – will be made widely available to inform the social enterprise and broader finance sectors.
More information on the pilots is available from:
