CAF creates Director of Social Investment role
Howard Lake | 8 December 2011 | News
The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has created a new role of Director of Social Investment and appointed Stephanie Sturrock to it. She joins from the north Yorkshire social enterprise Seachange where, as Chief Executive, she helped “to bring about a renaissance” in the coastal towns of Scarborough and Whitby .
At CAF Sturrock will develop the charity’s social investment activities, including CAF Venturesome and the recently launched CAF Social Impact Fund, all of which are designed to provide funding for charities, social enterprises and community groups where access to traditional finance proves difficult.
Before her time at Seachange, she was Managing Director of Shared Interest. She developed this social investment organisation from a founder-led start-up to an established, ethical business with 8,500 individual investors and a £30 million fund.
Sturrock starts at CAF on 9 January 2012. She said: “This is a fantastic opportunity to help ensure that innovative charities get the high impact loan finance they need. This is a particularly attractive role for me as I have experience of both providing social investment and actually delivering services on the ground.”
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