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Accredited Community Development Finance Institutions


Name and
Address of CDFI
Contact Details for CDFI

Scope of Operation
of CDFI

Aston Reinvestment Trust (ART)
69 Aston Road North
Birmingham
B6 4EA
Stuart Egginton
0121 359 2444
Fax:
0121 359 2333
E-mail:
art@reinvest.co.uk  

Website:
www.reinvest.co.uk/

Businesses in Birmingham
and Solihull

BIG Issue
invest Limited
1-5 Wandsworth Road
London
SW8 2LN

Edward Siegel
Tel:0207 526 3437

 

E-mail:
ed@bigissueinvest.co.uk

Website:
www.bigissueinvest.co.uk   

Lends to social enterprises 
across the UK

 

Black Country Reinvestment Society (BCRS)
Wolverhampton
Science Park
Technology Centre
Glaisher Drive
Wolverhampton
WV10 9RU

Paul Kalinauckas
Tel:
0845 313 8410

 
E-mail:
enquiries@bcrs.org.uk 

Social enterprises in Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire

 
Bristol Enterprise Development Fund Andrew Arthur
0117 944 4700

Email:
Andrew@bedf.co.uk

Website:
www.bedf.co.uk

Retal CDFI Offering loan finance for SMEs in the West Country
Bristol Together
Community Interest Company
Church Hill Cottage
Vicarage Lane
Olveston
Bristol
BS35 4BT
Paul Harrod
01454 613642

Email:
Paul.harrod@gmail.com

Retail CDFI operating in Bristol.
Business Finance Solutions
90 Great Bridgewater Street,
Manchester
M1 5JW
Paul Breen
Tel:
0161 245 4977
Fax
0161 237 9458

E-mail:
paul.breen@business-finance-solutions.org.uk

Website:
www.business-finance-solutions.org.uk

Businesses in the Greater Manchester Sub-region

London Business Loans (Wholesale) Ltd (LBL) New City Court                           20 St.Thomas Street London                     SE1 9RS

Nicholas Nicolau  Tel: 020 7940 1543 Fax: 020 7940 1599

E-mail: nicholas.n@gle.co.uk

Website: www.gle.co.uk; www.londonbusinessloans.co.uk  

Wholesale - Directly and through their retail, CDFI partners LBL lends to companies based in every one of the 33 London Boroughs

Charity Bank
194 High Street
Tonbridge
TN9 1BE

Malcolm Hayday
Tel: +44 (0) 1732 774040 Fax: +44 (0) 1732 774069

E-mail:
enquiries@charitybank.org

Website:
www.charitybank.org/

Charities across the UK

Co-operative and Community Finance Alain Demontoux

E-mail: alain.demontoux@co-opandcommunityfinance.coop


Website: www.co-opandcommunityfinance.coop

Co-operatives and social enterprise across the UK

Coventry &
Warwickshire Reinvestment Trust   Suite 23, 2nd floor - Block One,           Copthall House,
Station Square,
Coventry
CV1 2FL

Michael Bygrave

Tel: 02476 551777

Fax: 02476 518000

E-mail:
mike@moneybureau.co.uk

Website:
www.cwrt.uk.com

Retail CDFI providing financial services for individuals and enterprises within the boundaries of Coventry and Warwickshire
Cumbria Asset Reinvestment Trust

Grahame Latus 

Tel. 01768 867118

E-mail: enquiries@ccart.org.uk

Website: www.ccart.org.uk   

Retail operating in Cumbria
First Enterprise
Business Agency
90 Radford Road
Nottingham
NG7 5FU
Richard Tyas
Tel: 0115 942 3772
E-mail:
rtyas@first-enterprise.co.uk

Website:
www.first-enterprise.co.uk

Retail CDFI, the First Enterprise Business Agency is a 'Free-standing' organisation, but acts as a service delivery arm for small business, ethnic minority, social economy businesses and the socially disadvantaged.

Fredericks
Foundation
Fredericks
Gloucestershire
(formerly GDLF Limited) GDLF
PO Box 1086    Cheltenham             GL50 9LF                

Contact – Terri Stevenson
Tel: 01276 472722

Email:
terri@fredericksfoundation.net

Website:
www.fredericksfoundation.org

Retail CDFI. The organisation operates a hub and spoke model.
Foundation East
Saxon House,
7 Hillside Business Park,
Kempson Way,
Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk, IP32 7EA

Katy Ford
Tel:
01284 757778
mob:
07903 991113

E-mail:
katy.ford@foundationeast.org

Website
www.foundationeast.org

Operates across Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex.

Hull Business Development Fund Ltd                                 34-38 BeverleyRoad          Hull HU3 1YE

Peter Sykes  Tel: 01482 324976

Fax: 01482 213962

E-mail:
p.sykes@hullbdf.com

Website:
www.hullbdf.com

 

Retail CDFI. Activities covers Hull & East Riding of Yorkshire (up to Scarborough in the north and across to Beverley and Market Weighton to the west) and serves the financially excluded.

London Rebuilding Society (LRS) 
227c City Road
London
EC1V 1JT

Naomi Kingsley

E-mail:
info@londonrebuilding.com

Website:
www.londonrebuilding.com

Social enterprises across London

London Development Agency 
(SME Wholesale)
14-16 Great Portland
Street,
London
W1W 8QW

Alex Altaye
Tel: 020 7436 9280

E-mail: 
alexaltaye@smewf1.co.uk

Retail fund targeting objective 2 areas of London

Northern Pinetree Trust
Pinetree Centre
Durham Road
Birtley
Chester le Street
DH3 2TD
Michael Leithrow
0191 4928219

E-Mail:
manager@pinetree-centre.co.uk

Website:
www.northernpinetreetrust.co.uk

Retail CDFI offering support to local disadvantaged groups
Saltend Community Development Company Ltd
8 St Augustines Gate
Hedon
HU12 8EX
Alan Gordon-Freeman
01482 890146

E-Mail:
alang@sirius-hull.co.uk

Website:
www.sirius-hull.co.uk

Retail CDFI offering business support in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire

Social Investment Scotland
Second Floor
1 St Andrew Square
Edinburgh
EH2 2BD

David Herd
Tel:
0131 558 2332 and 0777 135 8762

Website:
www.socialinvestmentscotland.com

Wholesale lending to not for-profit CDFIs across Scotland

The Social Enterprise Loan Fund (TSELF)
42-47 Minories,
London,
EC3N 1DY

Mike Baker
Tel:
020 7680 1028
Fax:
020 7488 9231

E-mail:
information@tself.org.uk

Website:
www.tself.org.uk

Community and social enterprises across the UK

Street North East
Entrust Ltd
Portman House
Portland Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1AQ
Susan Oliphant
0191 244 4018

E-Mail:
s.oliphant@entrust.co.uk

Website(s):
www.entrust.co.uk
www.streetnortheast.co.uk

Retal CDFI for business support in the North East region.

Triodos Bank
Brunel House,
11 The Promenade,
Clifton,
Bristol BS8 3NN

Matthew Robinson,
Sue Cooper
Tel: 0117 980 9700

Website:
www.triodos.co.uk

On-lending to organisations with social and cultural value across the UK

 

 

Minister responsible

Mark Prisk is the minister responsible for this policy area.


 

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