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Fair for You CIC
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We support financially-excluded households to buy essential items, avoid hardship, and build their financial resilience. Owned and overseen by the Fair Credit Charity.
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🎉 For our 10th anniversary, we commissioned an impact report from the Centre for Responsible Credit.

It shows customers improving their finances, feeling less anxious and depressed, and better able to afford healthy food and essentials.

Watch the video or read more: www.fairforyou.co.uk/10years
Today is the start of Talk Money Week, led by the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS).

When did you last talk openly about money?

We know that it can be a tricky topic - but we also know that talking about it can help make you feel more in control, and less isolated.

#TalkMoney
🎉 For our 10th anniversary, we commissioned an impact report from the Centre for Responsible Credit.

It shows customers improving their finances, feeling less anxious and depressed, and better able to afford healthy food and essentials.

Watch the video or read more: www.fairforyou.co.uk/10years
...8%, IFISA-eligible investment opportunity.

This investment means more families being able to access our ethical loans, helping them to buy essential items, avoid hardship, take back control of their finances, and more.

Find out more via article above, or 👇 www.ethex.org.uk/invest/fair-...
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Fair For You – Ethical Finance - Ethex investment opportunity
Invest in Fair For You and help support vulnerable and low-income households in Scotland. Investments offer a target return of 8%.
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🎯 What's better than hitting a target?

🗓️ Doing so several weeks before deadline.

We're delighted that our bond offer on Ethex has now exceeded its £500,000 target by 27%, with almost two months left to run.

The bond will remain open, meaning that more investors can take advantage of this... (1/2)
This includes customers feeling more in control of their finances, improving physical and mental health, and more.

This has been achieved with total investment of £17m, equating to social returns of £46 for every £1 invested.

Read the full report 👉 www.fairforyou.co.uk/10years
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🔟 10 years
💷 100,000 customers
💜 £797m in social value

Three numbers of which we are very proud.

As today's new report from @responsiblecred.bsky.social shows, we've proven that it is possible to lend sustainably to financially-excluded customers, creating social impact in the process.
Within a few days of his investment into our raise, that funding had been matched, helping us pass the 75% milestone on our target of raising £500,000 - we're now close to 90%.

Thank you to Alan for your investment, and indeed to all his fellow investors.

#EthicalInvestment #EthicalInvesting
Alan adds:

"I'm providing matched funds as I'm keen to encourage others to join the fundraising. I really like the Scotland-focused, place-based approach of this round, as the impact of each pound invested is so tangible."
He invested a total of £45,000 in the raise, providing these as matched funds to encourage others to get involved as. He says:

"It's great seeing Fair for You return to the Ethex platform to secure additional funding."
This has ranged from small, local community projects through to larger, impact-focused institutional investments.

He's also one of the 178 investors so far to put his money into our latest bond offer on Ethex.
Today, we want to say 'thank you' to Alan and 177* others.

Alan - we're not using his full name, he's not in it for the recognition - began his career in the investment industry.

More recently, he has focused on not-for-profit and philanthropy projects.

(*and counting!)
We were delighted to win Best Lending Programme at last night's #PAY360Awards, organised by The Payments Associations.

Thanks to our friends at EML for you hard work on this partnership, and to all our amazing staff.

Congratulations also to those nominated and victorious in other categories.
The Fair Credit Charity will now be chaired by @moore-jonathan.bsky.social, who is a former CEO and board member at two credit unions, and has been a trustee since 2022.

Read more reflections from Tom in a recent Q&A 👇

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He was here from (before) the start, and soon we bid farewell: meet Tom Levitt
My role at Fair for You is..
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Farewell, Tom - it's been quite the journey!

Simon Dukes, chief executive of Fair for You and the Fair Credit Charity, says: “Tom Levitt is truly a pioneer of affordable credit and financial inclusion. We bid him farewell with very best wishes, and huge gratitude.”

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Since the charity and lender launched in 2015, Fair for You has provided ethical microloans to 100,000 families, enabling them to buy essential items, avoid hardship, and stay away from exploitative lenders or loan sharks.

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Tom first became involved in 2013, helping to ensure that we were created with an asset-locked, social enterprise structure - Fair for You is owned by a charity now known as the Fair Credit Charity, which oversees its work.

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Fair for You and the Fair Credit Charity today say a fond farewell to @tomlevitt.bsky.social, who has played an important leadership role in these two organisations since we were set up in 2015 - and has been the charity's chair since day one.

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We're pleased to be able to respond to high customer demand for essential household tech like laptops, fridges and washing machines — and to give households with lower incomes another way to spread the cost of essential purchases.

#retail #FinancialInclusion
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We’re delighted to announce that Currys is the latest major retailer to partner with Fair for You.

Our customers can now spend their Fair for You Shopping Card loan online at currys.co.uk, or in the electronics retailer’s nearly 300 UK stores.

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🦋 Often known as the 'butterfly effect', small things can lead to big changes.

Our loans of £25-£350 can make a huge difference to peoples' lives...

...and now you can invest in us from just £50 through our new bond on @ethexuk.bsky.social - helping us to support even more customers.
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Join us for an Ethex Cuppa Club chat and Q&A with @fairforyou.bsky.social, the award-winning social enterprise transforming lending for good.
learn more about their latest 8% IFISA-eligible bond offer on Ethex. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#AffordableFinance #FinancialInclusion
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Announcing the latest @fairforyou.bsky.social 8% investment bond offer, launching today!
Now you can be part of the next chapter in their amazing impact story.

Find out more and invest here: www.ethex.org.uk/invest/fair-...

#FinancailInclusion #AffordableFinance #FairLending
Who doesn't love a good sequel?

Fair for You is delighted to launch its second bond offer on the ethical investment platform Ethex today.

This new bond gives ethically-minded investors the chance to earn a potential tax-free 8% return, while helping combat financial exclusion.

#FinancialInclusion