The co-founder of Harry Specters describes why the award-winning chocolate firm was launched, its development, and how responsible finance through our member Foundation East contributed. Shaz Shah is co-founder of Harry Specters, a business which makes… Continue reading
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Responsible Finance’s Summer Briefing, July 2018
Please find below Responsible Finance’s bi-yearly briefing for all of our stakeholders. This provides an update of some of the many streams of activities that Responsible Finance and its members are involved in, to provide and… Continue reading
APR matters!
Joe had been getting loans from his local Provident agent for years and always made the repayments on time. He noticed that Conduit Scotland had opened a shop in town and decided to check how much… Continue reading
Purple Shoot Helps Customer Find the Light in Dementia
After a period of family illness and her own ill-health, which had left the whole family at a very low point financially, Jane wanted to start again and rebuild her career and her family’s circumstances. She… Continue reading
Chocolate business on a mission to give confidence to young people with autism
Ely-based multiple-award-winning deluxe chocolate business, Harry Specters, has a mission to offer confidence and hope to young people with autism by providing employment and free training. It has already provided training and work experience to 183… Continue reading
CIC Blog: Reclaiming financial services
In rural areas of the UK, 13% of adults aged 55 and over, or who are younger and have a physical or mental health condition, have difficulty getting to a bank. 3% of UK adults are unbanked.… Continue reading
Mover and Shaker Expands Exercise Offering After Securing Backing
An award-winning Sheffield business, IMovesDance UK Ltd (which trades as imoves), is taking leaps and bounds towards its mission to get kids moving in schools across the country, after securing funding to develop a unique range… Continue reading
Growth of call minding business rings true thanks to loan
A Worcester-based business specialising in call answering and virtual PA services for SMEs has doubled its turnover after securing funding from the Worcestershire Business Loan Fund, which included a £50,000 loan from recycled Regional Growth Fund… Continue reading
Unit3Sixty
A keen skateboarder and champion BMX rider since his youth, Gavin Pardoe was working as a fire station watch officer when he received an Aspire Award for community engagement with young people. Bringing these two interests… Continue reading
Synapse
Brian Donnelly is a serial entrepreneur with a special interest in developing software solutions to business problems. “My other half is a CFO (Chief Finance Officer),” he says, “and she drew my attention to the challenges… Continue reading