Charles ran a family business in Cheltenham for more years than he cares to remember before stumbling across the CDFI world after selling the business. Together with a colleague he set up the Gloucestershire Development Loan Fund in 2003, and loved the sector so much he joined the CDFA (now Responsible Finance) as Head of Regions for the South of England and London a couple of years later. The Regional team’s brief was to lobby the RDAs to disburse money to CDFIs, which they did, and when the team’s contracts came an end, Charles joined the Fredericks Foundation as their CEO which he did until 2015. Since then he joined the Princes Trust’s Enterprise team in Bristol helping Young People and has recently joined the University of Gloucestershire as Project Manager of their ERDF Start and Grow Enterprise program. He feels he should be retired by now but his golf isn’t good enough!
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