Responsible Finance welcomes the Money and Pension Service’s (MaPS) timely and coherent strategy for a financially healthy nation. Responsible Finance states: In the UK real earnings have stalled and working-age households in receipt of benefits have seen… Continue reading
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ART seeks funds to support more local businesses
ART Business Loans is a Birmingham loan provider with a proud 22-year track record set up initially to help deprived inner city areas abandoned by banks has become a victim of its own success – due… Continue reading
£200m lent to individuals, businesses and social enterprises in 2019
The UK’s ethical “responsible finance” sector lent £200 million to 40,000 businesses, social enterprises and individuals in 2019, creating and protecting 13,800 jobs, according to new figures published in our Annual Industry Report today. Continue reading
Scaling Up Community Investment in the UK Report welcomed
A new report sets out how responsible finance providers – enterprise-lending community development finance institutions – could increase their lending to £250 million annually to underserved small businesses if the right support is in place. Continue reading
£50 million milestone for BCRS
Responsible Finance member BCRS Business Loans has surpassed a landmark £50 million of lending since 2002, and supported 1,450 small and medium sized businesses across the West Midlands. Continue reading
Open for Entries NOW – The Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards 2019/20
The 2019/20 Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards are open for entries from responsible finance providers and their clients now. We are delighted to be partnering with the Citi Foundation once again to bring the global Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards… Continue reading
Fredericks becomes signatory to Investing in Women Code
Responsible Finance member, Fredericks Foundation, has been announced as a code signatory to the Investing in Women Code. Continue reading
Affordable Credit Challenge Prize: cash to develop innovative fintech partnerships
The Affordable Credit Challenge will support partnerships between UK community lenders and fintechs to develop innovative technological solutions that will increase access to affordable, responsible credit. Continue reading
BEF’s £31m boost to regional economy
BEF’s new 2018-19 Social Impact report demonstrates its lending has had an enormous, positive effect for businesses, individuals and communities. Continue reading
BCRS Business Loans Records Best-Ever Year
Our member BCRS Business Loans is celebrating a “phenomenal” year as its support for small businesses in the West Midlands surged with a thirty-eight per cent growth in lending. BCRS Business Loans lent a massive £7.2… Continue reading