21.04.201The number of business start-ups reached a record high in 2016 – with over 650,000 new businesses started in the UK. So what makes over 1,700 people decide to set up in business every day? Being… Continue reading
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Is a local finance partnership for you?
A practical toolkit for local finance partnerships 26.10.2017 Partnerships between local finance organisations have many benefits, evidenced by existing collaborations between some responsible finance organisations. The ‘Creating Local Finance Partnerships Toolkit’ was created as a practical… Continue reading
Responsible Finance Leadership Development Programme
The world is awash with leadership books, courses and advice. In 2015 around 1,200 books were published with the word ‘leadership’ in the title. Type ‘leadership’ into a search on Amazon and you will have… Continue reading
Podcast: Faisel Rahman on intelligent product design, commercial and social rigour, ambition and customer service
Faisel Rahman is CEO and founder of Fair Finance, a social enterprise tackling financial exclusion which has built a reputation for entrepreneurial growth, social and commercial rigour. Faisal talks about how working with Grameen and… Continue reading
Cheese On Coast
A couple from the Midlands left their old lives behind and moved to St Ives in order to launch their own business and create a better life for themselves. Nick and Claire Gane left thirty year… Continue reading
Podcast episode 8: launching and scaling a luxury chocolate business with a mission
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
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