The Rendesco Group is dedicated to combating climate change through renewable heat installations and recently raised a second bond with Triodos crowdfunding.

Fishtek Marine, a technology company which supports marine conservation, raised £900,000 through a share offer on the crowdfunding platform in 2019. Despite the challenges presented by Covid-19, the company has grown considerably over the last 12 months.

We caught up with Todd Cauthorn, the Executive Director of YMCA Newark & Sherwood, on progress of the construction of the YMCA Community and Activity Village in Newark-on-Trent. The build was partly funded by a £3 million crowdfunding bond and a loan from Triodos Bank. It’s a challenging time for such an ambitious building project but it’s on track for opening in Spring 2022.

Recently the FCA asked for investors’ views on investment crowdfunding and the risks involved. Thank you to everyone who took part in the survey. Read more about the reasons that prompted the consultation, what the main feedback was, and what this might mean for the future of investment crowdfunding.

We’ve recently returned the money pledged by our investors for the bond offer in FC Clacton, which was the first of our pilot projects with Crowdfunder. While it’s disappointing to have to do so, we want to learn from it in order to develop future offers as part of the partnership. Can you help?

On Wednesday 23 June at 1pm we will be hosting an Instagram Live @triodosuk with Laura Crawford, CEO and founder of Mama Bamboo

We’ve partnered with Crowdfunder, the UK’s leading reward-based crowdfunding platform, to raise flexible and patient capital to help community led organisations bolsters their resilience and help them to flourish after the impact of COVID.

Mendip Renewables, a community benefit society, raised £1.8 million on the Triodos crowdfunding platform in 2018 to finance a solar farm and to distribute the profits generated by the scheme for the benefit of the community

Even through the pandemic, renewable energy projects supported by Triodos crowdfunding have continued to excel. Burnham and Weston Energy CIC and Coigach Community CIC have both recently made capital repayments to bondholders alongside supporting their local communities.

Fishtek Marine received some great news in December 2020 following a period of extensive sea testing and approval of its proprietary Banana Pinger device in Norway.

Thanks to your support, we successfully filled two bond offers for really impactful organisations at the end of 2020 - the £850,000 community renewable energy bond for Ferry Farm Community Solar and £3 million bond for Nottinghamshire YMCA.

The 'rebel' supermarket supported by our crowdfunding investment recently opened the doors of its new shop in Worthing. Despite a challenging year the social enterprise hope when shopping becomes less restricted later on in 2021 people will choose to not go back to normal, but to go back to better.

Saving and investing up to £20,000 per year tax-free can be done effectively through ISAs up until the end of the tax year (April 5 2021). Triodos offers three ISA products, including the Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) for crowdfunding eligible investments.

The national charity redeemed the first of its three Triodos promoted bonds as scheduled on 31 December 2020.

On 30 November we hosted Simon Conway from Thera Trust and Craig Berens from Nottinghamshire YMCA to discuss how being able to raise capital helps these charities create positive social change. We’ve written up an extract from the question & answer session that followed.

Nottinghamshire YMCA holds a passionate belief that everyone should be given opportunities to reach their full potential. We are supporting the organisation's growth through a new charity bond offer.

Triodos Bank UK warmly invites you to join us, as we talk with two organisations - Thera Trust and Nottinghamshire YMCA - who have raised investment via charity bonds on our crowdfunding platform.

We are working with charity Thera Trust for a third time to help them raise capital to invest in homes for people with a learning disability.

In this difficult time, it is important time to look after everyone and work together as a strong community

We catch up with Bristol Wood Recycling Project founder and director Ben Moss to hear about how the project has grown, developed and become award winning since the successful 2019 bond offer.

The Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN) bond offer exceeds its £3 million target and remains open for more funding.

An exciting new way for communities to finance renewable energy schemes is now available.

Retail and institutional investors show support for rural broadband specialist B4RN.

Capacity building programme which helps charities and social enterprises 'access' social investment welcomes Triodos Bank.

Triodos has made some necessary changes in our set up as a bank. We have created a new subsidiary company, Triodos Bank UK Ltd, wholly owned by Triodos Bank N.V.

Two bonds launched in January and February have already been filled, helping to facilitate the important and impactful work of two pioneering organisations.

In our first year we’ve raised over £20 million from our platform users for eight fantastic social and environmental organisations – all of which achieved their capital raising objectives.

Burnham and Weston Energy CIC has reached its £4 million fundraising target making it one of the UK’s largest community energy crowdfunding campaigns.

A community solar company in Somerset has big crowdfunding ambitions.

How crowdfunding is helping a rural Scottish community green its future.

Burnham and Weston Energy is using crowdfunding to take back control of the energy system.

Fishtek Marine is crowdfunding as it aims to put an end to one of the most troubling side effects of commercial fishing.

An innovative ground source heat pump company is helping to power retirement properties across the country.