Social Investment

Growing great ideas for good

Social investment is a form of repayable finance tailored to voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations who trade, including community groups and charities, to support you to deliver social impact.

Whatever your social purpose and wherever you are on your trading journey, our business friendly, accessible range of social investment funds are designed to help you increase your impact.

Become financially independent: Our loans provide unrestricted funding to fund your core growth and trading capacity, that will ultimately help reduce your reliance on restrictive, short term grant funding.

Tailored funding for every need: Our range of loans offer a mixture of competitive rates, interest free periods and in some cases a grant element, all designed to suit a wide variety of organisational needs.

Elevated support beyond capital: Our friendly and experienced investment managers support you with your investment application and can help with strategic, operational and financial decision making. Post investment we assign you a dedicated relationship manager who will support you and connect you with exclusive resources throughout the lifetime of your investment.

Flexible funding without barriers: We care about your impact, not your assets, so we don’t ask for security and there are no hidden costs or fees. We are able to offer payment breaks if needed and there are options to repay early with no penalty.

Whether you address social needs, aim to strengthen communities, improve people’s life chances, enhance culture or protect the environment - if your business trades (or aims to trade) for the common good, social investment could be right for you.

Find out more about social enterprise and social investment in our brief guide to social enterprise and social investment.

Find out more about how our social investment works on our Frequently Asked Questions page.

Visit our case studies page to read about how organisations across Greater Manchester have benefitted from social investment.

Are you ready for us to become your catalyst for positive change? Complete our online enquiry form and we will be in touch.

Enquire here

Alternatively, you can call or email us:

0161 277 1007

gmsocinvest@gmcvo.org.uk

We are members of the Diversity Forum: Together we hope to work towards a more inclusive social investment sector for all.