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My Time CIC grow their award-winning community therapeutic education services in Birmingham

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Social Investment Guide
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You have probably stumbled over the word social investment and wondered what it's all about.

The aim of this guide is to give you an overview of the UK social investment market and help you to work out whether and how it's relevant to your organisation - it's for anyone involved with a voluntary and community organisation or social enterprise (VCSE) as a trustee, chief executive or member of staff.

This guide includes a helpful infographic that introduces social investment in a minute, along with a suite of insightful case study videos featuring Birdcage, My Time CIC and Fordhall Organic Farm.

The guide has been produced by programme partners, Social Enterprise UK for Big Lottery Fund.

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Birdcage takes loan to start local vintage shop to support domestic violence service
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Leeds charity, Behind Closed Doors needed a source of income to continue providing their valuable service. The trustees took the decision to talk to local social lender, Key Fund about a loan to finance their first trading venture, Birdcage.

Birdcage is the charity’s first community enterprise project to raise funds for their work with people who have suffered from domestic violence.

Customers will not only be able to buy vintage clothes from the shop, they will also be shown how to make their own. The project threads together the charity’s vision to encourage more people to recycle, up-cycle, make-do and mend, along with the need to raise funds for their outreach work on domestic violence.

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