Charity Bank

“What you get with Charity Bank is understanding. They understand our structure, our model and how we work financially.” Read about René House’s experience of getting a loan.

What better way to celebrate your 125th anniversary than with a new property that gives you space to enrich lives and bring community together? That’s exactly what Mosaic 1898 has done, with the help of a Charity Bank loan. CEO Zoheb Shariff tells us more.

In 2020 North East Lincolnshire Women’s Aid owned just two safe houses. Now it has 13 properties. Housing manager Joanna Newman explains how the charity has grown its portfolio so rapidly.

By refinancing an existing loan, Leigh Building Preservation Trust has reduced its monthly costs by £6,000. Find out how.

Dundee Women’s Aid was offered substantial funding towards the cost of a new refuge. But as the deadline approached, CEO Mary Miller realised their fundraising efforts were going to fall short. So, she turned to Charity Bank…

“It doesn’t feel like Charity Bank is the lender and we’re the borrower; it feels like we’re in this together.” Read our interview with Robin Roberts, Chief Executive of Sutton Housing Society.

“It would have been hugely difficult if we’d closed down; there's hardly anywhere else for these children to go. But we didn’t have enough cash to keep going, and we couldn’t get a loan from a high street bank.”

In this blog we’ll highlight some of the key advantages of loan finance for charities and provide case studies to demonstrate how charities big and small have benefited from borrowing funds.

Y:Housing helps YMCAs to keep their properties, and young people to have affordable homes. But the charity couldn’t do what it does without loan finance. Melissa Lloyd, CEO of Y:Housing, tells us more.