So many people do not know about Big Issue Invest. They know about our work on the streets and with homeless people, but they don’t know that about 20 years ago The Big Issue created an investment business.
But if you had read your Financial Times last week you would have seen Big Issue Invest closing the first part of one of its funds. Fund IV is for social investment in businesses “creating impact in the housing, care and social infrastructure sectors”.
John Gilligan, who sits on Big Issue Invest’s fund management board, says potential investments range from