Social Investment Scotland

Scotland’s professional services could hold the key to growing the country’s social enterprise sector in the coming years, according to investment experts at Social Investment Scotland (SIS). The leading lender of finance to Scotland’s third sector, whose core aim is to expand social enterpris

Social Investment Scotland chairman Nick Kuenssberg and chief executive Alastair Davis in their office on Broughton Place Increased third sector lending by Social Investment Scotland has supported the creation of hundreds of new jobs and an increase in trading income by its customers over the past y

Kingdom Housing Association has said it is “very pleased” to have helped launch a new energy supply company which aims to reduce household energy bills for thousands of tenants.

Chairman Nick Kuenssberg and chief executive Alastair Davis in their Broughton Place office Social Investment Scotland, which invests funds put up by banks and the Scottish and UK governments, has revealed that it provided a record £7.5 million to 45 social enterprises, charities and community orga

SIS Community Capital has launched a new social investment fund to support up to ten Scottish social enterprises with growth ambitions. Funding is being offered on a first-come, first-serve basis to established social enterprises which are looking to expand or replicate their business through, for e

A new independent energy supply company, the first in the UK operating on a non-profit distributing basis, plans to be selling heat and power to tenants in 200,000 homes across Scotland by 2020. Our Power Energy, a subsidiary of Our Power Community Benefit Society, has been founded by 35 member orga

Nick Kuenssberg UK investors are being targeted by a new pioneering Scottish third sector fund which aims to provide a social as well as financial return.