Senscot attended an event this week in Glasgow. The event, titled ‘Re-thinking Social Investment in Scotland’, was hosted by Matt Fountain (Freedom Bakery) and Flip Finance. 20 or so {...}
Do Britain’s banks have a social conscience? New RBS report says yes
Do Britain’s banks have a social conscience? Well a new report suggests they do. Data provided by RBS and analysed by the social research company Social Spider says UK {...}
Report challenges social investment specialists to be clearer
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 {...}
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 {...}