We invest in organisations, funds and projects that achieve impact that aligns to our strategic priorities. Our investments generate financial returns as well as impact and these are recycled into new investments.
- Why social investment
Organisations often use social investment to increase their sustainability and impact – perhaps by purchasing an asset, developing a product, expanding their team or improving their cashflow. Learn more about the different types of social investment and whether it's right for you at Good Finance.
- What we offer
- As every organisation is different, we work with applicants to find the type and terms of investment that will best help them to achieve their missions.
- In practice this means we offer loans (secured and unsecured), equity, fund investments and everything else.
- Explore a list of our recent social investments to find examples of our funding.
- Eligibility criteria
To be eligible for social investment, you must:
- Deliver or plan to deliver measurable outcomes that align closely to the priorities under our aims.
- Be a charity or social enterprise or have a structure that includes a Mission Lock or be willing to add one.
- Demonstrate a suitable repayment or exit plan for the investment you are seeking.
- Be operating in the UK.
- We are particularly interested in supporting
- Organisations led by, and for, people with lived experience of the issues they are working on.
- Ideas with the potential to influence wider positive change, help attract mainstream finance into impact or disrupt broken markets. See our Investment priorities for examples.
- Ideas, structures and interventions that meaningfully involve their communities.
- Impact that intersects across one or more of our Aims.
- Partnerships and collaborations.
- How to apply for social investment
If you’d like to apply for social investment:
- Read about our aims and priorities. You’ll need to demonstrate that your intended impact aligns closely to at least one of these priorities. You can also see our investment priorities where we think there is a particularly important role that social investment can play:
- Read our Social Investment guidance for details of the process.
If you prefer, you can download the guidance and a sample Expression of Interest form from this page.
- Submit an Expression of Interest
Click here to submit an Expression of Interest for social investment.
In the form, we'll ask you questions about your organisation, funding request, and the work you're seeking funding for - which you can respond to in writing or by audio or video. You will have the option to upload an existing pitch deck or other summary information.
