10. Social investment – why are we
doing it?
• To increase the overall size of the funding
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• To match funding mechanism to need
more appropriately in some cases
• To make our money work harder
• To contribute to market development
11. Some examples of social
investments
Bristol Together
Land Purchase Fund
Live Theatre Land Purchase Fund
15. Rachel Kirby-Rider
Executive Director of Fundraising
and Communications, Samaritan’s
National Council for Voluntary Organisations
Sustainable Funding Project
Notas del editor
Greno Woods – Sheffield Wildlife Trust £515,000 land purchase. Background As part of the Finance Fund, we have a short term land purchase facility. This buys land on behalf of three named conservation organisations - Royal Society for Protection of Birds, Woodland Trust and the Wildlife Trusts (47 separate trusts) - holds it for two years, giving them time to fundraise, and then sells it to them at an agreed price (purchase price plus a percentage uplift). This facility only buys land where there is: urgent time pressure; the seller is not willing to offer the buyer a period of time to fundraise and buy from them at an agreed price in the future (the more common way these land purchase/sale deals are done) the land is of high conservation value no other conservation organisation is competing for the land one of the three partner organisations coming to us; these are substantial, well proven organisations, with significant fundraising capacity.