# CAF Bank passes £100 million lending milestone - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/01/27/caf-bank-passes-100m-lending-milestone/ - Published: 2020-01-27T10:40:34+00:00 - Author: Melanie May **CAF Bank has grown its portfolio of lending to charities to over £100 million for the first time, it has announced.** CAF Bank, which is owned by [Charities Aid Foundation](https://www.cafonline.org/), provides a full range of day-to-day banking services to charities and organisations with a social purpose, with a particular commitment to small and medium-sized organisations. Projects that have benefitted from CAF Bank loans include [redeveloping a former care home](https://www.cafonline.org/caf-bank/caf-bank-personal-account/development-finance/haven-sent) into a 14 bedroom home in East Sussex to house homeless people in the area, and  [renovating a church](https://www.cafonline.org/charities/borrowing/secured-loans/case-studies/community-church-putney) in Putney to transform it into a modern hub for the local community. ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/) Alison Taylor, CEO of CAF Bank, commented: > “We’re owned entirely by a charity and as a result, specifically designed to understand > and serve what thousands of charities across the country need from a banking provider. > “This £100m milestone is important for us. It shows our commitment to responsible > lending to UK charities, despite an uncertain economic and geopolitical outlook.” Last year CAF Bank identified three main priorities for the future: improving customer service, driving efficiency and deepening its social purpose lending. In December last year, it announced that it was partnering with Flagstone in the launch of a cash deposit platform just for charities. The [CAF Charity Deposit Platform](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/12/11/caf-launches-cash-deposit-platform-for-charities-only/) provides access to a choice of more than 170 deposit accounts from 22 banks and building societies for those with savings starting at £50,000. * **[Britons willing to support neighbours & NHS charities despite coronavirus money worries](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/04/06/britons-willing-to-support-neighbours-nhs-charities-despite-coronavirus-money-worries/)**( 6 April 2020) * **[Donations to children & animal-related causes decline as more give to NHS charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/05/15/donations-to-children-animal-related-causes-decline-as-more-give-to-nhs-charities/)**( 15 May 2020) * **[UK drops out of CAF World Giving Index top 10](https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/06/15/uk-drops-out-of-caf-world-giving-index-top-10/)**( 15 June 2021) ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif)