One the UK’s most experienced providers of ecological consultancy and contracting is growing and winning larger contracts with a little help from The Co-operative Loan Fund. Ecosulis is an employee-owned business that employs up to 40 staff during survey season. Their work includes ecological consulting, habitat creation, ecological contracting and biodiversity valuation and research. The business […]
Award-winning, employee-owned care provider Care and Share Associates (CASA) has completed the first phase of its ambitious plan to more than double its turnover in the next five years. The Co-operative Loan Fund, Co-operative & Community Finance and Big Issue Invest are providing finance following an innovative restructuring of the business. CASA provides domiciliary care in […]
Upton based Sutcliffe Play, the UK’s first and only employee-owned playground equipment company, is holding its second Home Show exhibition following the success of its first event last year. The Home Show exhibition will take place on 8-9 September 2014 at the company’s factory in Upton and will give customers a behind the scenes look […]
The Co-operative Loan Fund helped an employee-owned care provider to smooth the financial highs and lows of rapid growth. The workload and staffing of Newcastle Home Care Associates (NHCA) doubled since it successfully re-tendered to provide services to the local authority in August 2012. It is contracted to provide 2,600 hours of care a week. […]
One of the UK’s leading suppliers of decorated school uniform, which is employee-owned, has bought back the freehold of its headquarters for less than it sold it for nine years ago. Co-operative & Community Finance made one of its largest-ever loans to help Sheffield-based School Trends to raise the funds to complete the purchase. School […]
One of the leading providers of home care in Scotland is set for further growth thanks to a refinancing package involving three ethical lenders. Loans The Co-operative Loan Fund, Co-operative & Community Finance, and Big Issue Invest have given Highland Home Carers, an employee-owned business with nearly 250 staff, the capacity and incentive to win more […]
The Co-operative Loan Fund worked with other specialist lenders to help the employees of a leading manufacturer of playground equipment to buy the business. Sutcliffe Play, based in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, is well known for its design-led, child-centered, innovative outdoor play equipment. It supplies local authorities and other customers all over the UK and has […]
West Highlands Free Press has become theUK’s only employee-owned newspaper, after a loan was approved from the Co-operative Loan Fund and ICO Fund PLC to support an employee buyout. With the help of Co-operative and Community Finance and the Baxi Partnership, West Highlands Free Press is now owned by ten of its employees who will […]