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Charity Bank only finances charities, social enterprises and community organisations that are changing lives and supporting communities. Since 2002, over 900 organisations have been financed, touching the lives of 3,500,000 people. In this film Folkestone Sports Centre Trust, Emmaus Brighton and Hove, St Andrew's Church Fulham Fields, The Bevern Trust, and St Pancras Almshouses talk about their work and the support they have received from Charity…
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Emmaus enable people to move on from homelessness, providing work and home in a supportive environment. Companions work collecting and selling donated furniture. This film is about Emmaus Brighton & Hove and how Charity Bank supported the setting up a new ‘Emmaus Community’ in Hastings. Charity Bank only finances charities, social enterprises and community organisations that are changing lives and supporting communities. To learn more visit…
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Folkestone Sport Centre is much more than your average leisure centre. As well as hosting a wide range of sports facilities the charity runs 18 separate programmes to help the elderly, homeless, low income families and disabled people. Activities include cardiac rehabilitation, youth clubs and homeless shower care. The building was in need of major modernisation. Mainstream banks were approached but declined to lend. Charity Bank agreed a loan…
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Bevern View is a purpose built bungalow for eight young adults with profound learning disabilities and it has three extra beds dedicated to provide much needed respite. In this film Peter Frost, founder of the Bevern Trust, talks about how they enable people with profound disabilities to live their lives to the full and the support they have received from Charity Bank. Charity Bank only finances charities, social enterprises and community organisations…
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Intended as ‘an asylum for decayed and deserving ratepayers of the parish’ the St Pancras Almshouses are the result of typical Victorian charity more than a century and a half ago. Today they are home to 50 people in housing need. In this film Saint Pancras Almshouses explain how Charity Bank is helping to bring about major improvement to the Almshouses to ensure that all the residents are living in modern homes. Charity Bank invests purely…
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Charity Bank is a not-for-profit bank that invests purely for social change. Our mission is not to maximise profit, but to maximise our impact on society.
Investments and savings in Charity Bank are only used to finance charities and other organisations that are changing lives and supporting communities.
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