A report by David Floyd and Dan Gregory (for RBS) – ‘The Forest for the Trees’ – estimates that mainstream banks have around £3bn in outstanding lending to third {...}
Nearest cash points
It is likely that mainstream banks are lending far more money to social enterprises and charities than the ‘social investment market’. That’s the headline news from The Forest For The {...}
Need money for your social venture? Try the banks…
A new report for RBS written by social investment and social enterprise commentators Dan Gregory and David Floyd has found that social investment by mainstream banks could eclipse that {...}
New report should prompt major re-evaluation of social investment
Last week saw a report issued by Social Spider’s on social investment “The Forest for the Trees”. Do banks understand charities? One of the issues that the report highlights {...}
Becoming genuinely UnLtd
UnLtd faces the difficult challenge of huge expectations that come with having a gigantic endowment and the ability to have a ‘forever’ business model. This comes with its own {...}
Report: UK banks are lending £3bn to social organisations
A report commissioned by RBS has estimated that banks in the UK have over £3bn invested in outstanding lending to social organisations, and that there is no evidence that {...}
Forest For The Trees: UK banks’ investment in a social purpose
Flip Finance’s David Floyd and Dan Gregory were commissioned by RBS to write a report highlighting the significant level of existing investment in the social sector by mainstream banks and {...}
DIY Social Investment / Manchester
On 6 July 2016, we worked with three enterprises at MadLab in Manchester to help them to understand how they can ‘DIY’ their own social investment deals. Jonathan Atkinson {...}
DIY Social Investment / London
On 01 June 2016, we worked with a number of social enterprises in London to help them to understand how they can ‘DIY’ their own social investment deals. The {...}