SIS Corporate Media Site
Our values and history
Our history
We celebrated our 20th anniversary in 2021. View our timeline to see how we’ve grown to a position where our investees and those we work with touch the lives of at least 4.3m people every year
Governance and Performance
Our Annual Accounts
We’re open and transparent, so feel free to take a look at our annual accounts.
Key Statistics
Our impact
£133m
in 520+ social enterprises and mission-driven businesses across the UK.
Our reach
4.5m
people benefitted from SIS investee activities in 2023-2024.
Our customer rating
97%
of customers would recommend SIS to other social or impact-led enterprises.
Our loans
£25k - £875k
32% of our SIS loan customers secured loans under £50k in 2023/2024.
Our memberships
Awards / Key Stats
- We have signed the following charters: Changing the Chemistry Diversity Forum Manifesto 2.0 and the Investing in Women Code.
Awards
- We were voted one of the top 100 social enterprises in the UK by Pioneers Post and NatWest in June 2022.
- We won the "Growth and Recovery Award", for the second year running, at the 2023 Scottish Financial Services Awards, sponsored by EY.
- Our CEO, Alastair Davis, won the ‘Director of the Year – Third Sector’ at the IOD Scotland Awards in December 2021.
Key Statistics
- Since 2001, SIS and SIS Ventures have deployed over £133m in 520+ social enterprises and impact-led businesses across the UK.
- 5,400,000 people benefitted from SIS investee activities in 2022-2023.
- Our active loans and investments reached more than £47m across 201 social enterprises, community organisations and impact-led businesses over the past year (2022/2023).
- We provide loans from £10k - £1.3m.
- In 2022/2023, 28% of our SIS loan customers secured loans under £50k.
- Our activities reach enterprises, people, and communities in all 32 of Scotland’s local authority areas.
- Our average customer rating is 4.6/5, and 96% of customers would recommend SIS to other social or impact-led enterprises.