Social Impact Report 2025

📋About

Social Impact Investment Programme (SIIP): three themes — housing for vulnerable, supporting communities to thrive, just energy transition; repayable finance model; Women in Safe Homes fund (grassroots women's housing organisations); Social & Sustainable Housing fund (charities providing housing and support); Recovery Loan Fund (charities and social enterprises); Charity Bank equity stake (leverage for lending to charities/social enterprises/faith organisations); parish social action (food banks, warm hubs, debt centres, homeless shelters, community cafes) Custom geography from upload: UK (England and Wales focus)

📊Key Metrics

✅Key Outcomes

• Women in Safe Homes: houses bought and leased to grassroots organisations providing refuge to vulnerable women and children; Charity Bank investment can unlock £8m+ in loans to charities and social enterprises for every £1m of capital invested
• Commitment to continue looking for investment opportunities in housing and just energy transition; net zero goal embedded in investment strategy; Charity Bank growing 'green lending' space — aligns with Church's environmental priorities
• SIIP established 2020; pilot phase; manages £11bn Church Commissioners endowment (invested to support Church in perpetuity); £25m granted from endowment for SIIP; Church of England has 16,000 churches in England; faith-based organisation; 'Other' as Organisation Type as it is a national institution rather than registered charity in the conventional sense

📍Geography

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