CAF Retail Charity Bond raises £20m
The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Retail Charity Bond has closed early after just one week, having raised £20 million. The offer saw strong demand from both institutional and retail investors and closed over-subscribed.
Allia brings MassChallenge accelerator for start-ups and SMEs to Cambridge
Allia will be welcoming internationally acclaimed accelerator programme MassChallenge, which offers expert mentoring, support and a share of a £500,000 equity-free investment fund to start-ups and SMEs, to Allia Future Business Centre, Cambridge, on Tuesday 3 May.
Apply now: Social Entrepreneur of the Year
Allia is excited once again to be sponsoring the Social Entrepreneurship category of the Cambridge News Business Excellence Awards. The deadline for submissions to the 2016 awards is Friday January 22nd.
Allia needs 3500 photos for an art installation
Allia is delighted that famous British artist Helen Marshall will create a huge public art installation for the Allia Future Business Centre Cambridge.
Allia opens a new Future Business Centre in Peterborough
Allia, the Cambridge based not-for-profit organisation, has today announced that it will become the new operator of the Future Business Centre Peterborough at the Abax Stadium. The centre will encourage and support businesses with an environmental or social mission to start up and grow. It will also promote entrepreneurship to young people as a way of creating opportunities for them to take part…
The search is on to find the UK’s most innovative ideas for clean energy and smart technology
Allia Future Business Cambridge is working with energy company ENGIE (formerly GDF SUEZ) to launch a national competition to find the UK’s most innovative companies in the Energy and Services sectors.
Cambridge charity Allia launches manifesto to support UK social ventures
Allia’s 2015 manifesto, Helping Social Ventures Flourish, calls on the future government to swiftly pass growth-promoting laws that support social ventures, legislate for improved access to appropriate finance and commit to sustained political support for the duration of the next parliament and beyond.
School work clubs - Future Business wins funding for Cambs
Future Business has won funding from the LEP in collaboration with Keystone Trust who have been running school-based work clubs in Norfolk and Suffolk, and are bringing them to Cambridgeshire. A new role has been created for this project in Cambridgeshire.
£4m of charity bonds issued for Future Business Centre
Cambridge-based charity Allia has raised £4.2 million through a bond issue to complete the financing for its new Future Business Centre – an incubation centre for social and environmental enterprises.
Future Business Centre appoints The Rather Good Catering Company
The Future Business Centre Cambridge has appointed The Rather Good Catering Company to run the café at its new exciting incubation centre for social and environmental businesses.
Future Business Centre Cambridge: Dr Neil Stott appointed as Interim Centre Director
Dr Neil Stott has been appointed as Interim Centre Director for Cambridge’s first hub for social and environmental businesses being built in North Cambridge. The centre is due to open in October 2013 and will provide affordable, high quality office and workshop space as well as tailored business support.
Future Business Centre to be home to Cambridge Cleantech
The Future Business Centre – Cambridge’s first purpose-built incubation centre to help social and environmental businesses start up and succeed - has confirmed that Cambridge Cleantech have signed up as the first tenant to be based at the new Centre.
Sir Ronald Cohen launches fundraising appeal for Future Business Centre
The pioneer of the social investment movement, Sir Ronald Cohen, helped launch the public fundraising campaign for the Future Business Centre – Cambridge’s first purpose-built incubation centre to help social and environmental businesses start up and succeed.
Cafe opportunity at the Future Business Centre - request for expressions of interest
The Future Business Centre, due to open in October this year, is a different kind of enterprise hub; more than just a set of workspaces for rent, it will be a place where people will be encouraged to establish and grow their businesses while providing a social or environmental benefit. It now seeks expressions of interest from potential operators for its Cafe, which will be located in the heart…
Allia opens up social impact bond market to individual retail investors
The first public opportunity to invest in a social impact bond launches today, giving retail investors a unique opportunity to invest in making a positive social impact that will repay capital plus a variable return according to success. Offered by Allia, a charitable social investment organisation, the Future for Children Bond will invest into the social impact bond (SIB) for Essex County…