Community Enterprise support for London

A £3.6m Wholesale Loan Fund is being set up to provide capital to community development finance institutions (CDFI’s) to enable them to offer more loans to social businesses in London. Uniquely, the fund will underwrite part of any loss a CDFI makes where a business fails to take-off as expected. The fund has been set up by Greater London Enterprise, the Cooperative Bank, London Development Agency and Kingston Smith (an accountancy firm). More details here.