We welcome and encourage responsible finance providers to join us as members.
See how we define responsible finance here.
Membership criteria
All Members must:
- Demonstrate a positive contribution to community, economic and social development and the environment within communities or markets that are not adequately served by mainstream financial service providers.
- Demonstrate accountability and transparency to stakeholders, target communities and customers.
- Put people first and treat people fairly.
- Engage in loan management provision as principle or agent.
- In most cases, be an independent, non-governmental organisation.
- Have a commitment to continued professional and organisational development.
- Demonstrate responsible lending and ethical business practices.
- Comply with the Responsible Finance Code of Practice
- Submit loan portfolio activity and performance data to the annual survey to help demonstrate the impact of the sector.
If you are a subsidiary or part of a larger organisation or group structure, you must be a not for private profit social enterprise in your own right and hence must be able to fulfill criteria 1 and 3 above.
Membership benefits
Becoming a member of Responsible Finance offers the following benefits:
- Shape Responsible Finance’s policy and advocacy strategy on issues such as access to finance for SMEs, financial inclusion and regulation.
- Opportunity to represent the sector in meetings with ministers, government officials and regulators.
- Profiling on the Finding Finance website, which receives 1,500 visitors per month by potential customers.
- Access to member networking opportunities through working groups and network meetings scheduled throughout the year, featuring external speakers and the chance to share best practice as well as shape sector policies.
- Significant discounts for our annual conference and CPD training courses.
- Up-to-date sector news and intelligence via a fortnightly newsletter and email announcements.
- Exclusive access to member-only resources which includes tools to measure your social and economic impact, an online handbook containing sample policies and procedures, policy toolkits for local lobbying and infographics to use on social media.
- Profiling in our press and marketing activities.
- Free listing on our job vacancies webpage.
- Inclusion in our annual flagship publication, a valuable resource seen by policymakers, funders and stakeholders.
- Brokering of partnerships with funders and stakeholders.
Your membership helps support Responsible Finance’s:
- Policy and advocacy activities
- Free publications on the sector’s annual activity and key issues within the sector
- Communications and promotional activity
Membership fees
Full annual 2025 Membership fees based on outstanding portfolio size (including managed and non-managed funds) are:
New CDFI start up (maximum 2 years in this band): £350 + VAT
Band A (<£500,000): £1,704 +VAT
Band B (£500,000 – £1,000,000): £3,293 +VAT
Band C (£1,000,000 – £5,000,000): £5,208 +VAT
Band D (£5,000,000 – £10,000,000): £6,364 +VAT
Band E (£10,000,000+): £7,522 +VAT
If you are interested in becoming a member of Responsible Finance, please get in touch by emailing [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you.