Investment
Tailored to fit your needs.
Social investment is money designed to help you take impactful actions and achieve meaningful outcomes. You could use it to achieve your growth ambitions, ease cash flow along the way or buy assets and vital equipment.
For Social Enterprises
We create tailored funding packages to suit individual customers, accessing finance from a range of active funds.
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Social Enterprise Just Transition Fund
The Social Enterprise Just Transition Fund supports organisations in Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray. The fund is available to charities, social enterprises, and communities delivering Just Transition outcomes as part of Scotland’s journey to net zero.
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SIS Community Finance
Our core loan fund provides a range of flexible loans from £10,000 to £250,000, including our bridging loan product.
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Scottish Social Growth Fund
A £13 million partnership between the Scottish Government, Big Society Capital, and The University of Edinburgh, providing loans from £100,000 to £1.3 million.
Access to finance
For Community Development Finance Initiatives (CDFIs)
SIS acts as a fund manager, mobilising and deploying funds into other responsible finance providers who, in turn, offer finance to enterprises and individuals who are unable to secure them from mainstream financial lenders.
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Net Zero Transition Fund
The Social Enterprise Net Zero Transition Fund (NZTF), launched in partnership with Zero Waste Scotland, is designed to support social enterprises and the wider third sector to make the transition to carbon net zero.
SIS Ventures
For Impact-Led Business
SIS Ventures is part of the SIS group and is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. As an impact investor, we expect care for people and the planet to be part of investee businesses’ DNA. We work with founders and management teams committed to bringing positive change for the people and places it interacts with.
Investment Readiness Tool
Investment Readiness Tool
Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of your organisation is an essential step towards accessing social investment. Find out if your organisation is ready.
A Guide to Social Investment
Our Head of Credit & Compliance, Alistair Johnstone, answers our most frequently asked questions.