Welcome to Social IPO

Helping Angels profitably fund social enterprises....

Social IPO has been set up to investigate the potential for finding new source of social enterprise funding from Angel equity investors.

A Surrey based telephone marketing social enterprise received a £292,500 government employment grant for 45 people, as well as £500,000 and £350,000 from social funds. The management have invested £150,000 and still retain 51% of the company. In the current financial climate, it would be hard to find funding at this level for a start up.

The Bridges Social Entrepreneurs Fund has raised £9 million. The Big Issue Fund aim to raise £10 million for social enterprise investments. The governments Big Society programme will release many  £ millions into the sector. James Caan (the TV Dragon) has recently become Chairman of the Big Issue. Coutts Bank and several other banks have specialist client advisors for philanthropic investments.

By looking at the funding of social enterprises, from an Angel investors’ point of view, we will be able to see the strengths and weaknesses of funding the Third Sector.

With the eventual aim of taking a social enterprise onto a UK small cap market.

Several USA social enterprises have undertaken IPO’s to raise funding. Most have been private issue of blocks of equity for a fixed price. As these were not quoted on a recognised market they could not easily be traded.

As local/national government grant funding is reduced and trading income becomes harder to achieve, social enterprises are looking for new investment. Social IPO have set up a specialist business plan programme to help them understand what Angels and social funds are looking for.

We are organizing a one day event, in October, to discuss the problems and opportunities of social enterprise investment. By bringing experts, sophisticated investors and social enterprises together we hope to take away some of the ambiguity surrounding the sector.

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