"Big Issue Invest understands our mission and values and how profit is essential in growing social enterprise."
Dai Powell, CEO, Hackney Community Transport

SOME OF OUR PRESS COVERAGE

The Civil Service Network — Investing in social change

November 5th 2008

Article for Westminster & Whitehall's Conference — "Transformation, Innovation and Delivery in the UK Public Sector."

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Regeneration and Renewal — Money man

January 25th 2008

"The Big Issue became one of the most successful social enterprises in the UK. Then its former managing director launched an investment fund to help others emulate its success."

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Director Magazine — Director of the Month

July 2007

"As chair of The Big Issue, Nigel Kershaw used to manage the magazine's publishing operations and has developed several social businesses, As CEO of one of those intitiatives, Big Issue Invest, he's now . . ."

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Guardian newspaper — Dream Catcher

Wednesday April 18, 2007

"Alison Benjamin meets the boss of Big Invest, whose groundbreaking buyout fund will transform private firms into socially focused businesses . . ."

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The Big Issue — Loan Voices

Issue 9–15 April 2007

"Led by a top team of business brains, BIG invest is a Big Issue spin-off that lends money to the social enterprises other financiers won't touch . . ."

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The Big Issue — Big News

Issue 9–15 April 2007

"From a bottled water company and Barnardo’s to an industrial railway specialist, Big Invest has lent money to a variety of social businesses . . ."

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Third Sector — Mr Versatility

March 28, 2007

"Nigel Kershaw makes no secret of the fact he is not a finance man. Having started his working life begging the bank manager for a loan to process . . ."

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The Daily Express — Conference centre is chalking up success

2006

"An £800,000 exhibition and events venture on a Kent clifftop uses the latest ecologically sound building and maintenance techniques . . ."

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