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A New and Exciting Craft Seller gives us a mention
Posted on 26th February 2022 | Company News
Check out this article from Hwb Menter Focus Caerfyrddin featuring Sian from Sian's Emporium. We supported Sian when others wouldn't when Covid hit and cash flow became tight!
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Why support Purple Shoots – some common objections part 3
Posted on 9th March 2021 | Uncategorized
Purple Shoots creates long term, sustainable change for the people we support. Our loans enable our borrowers to create businesses which provide a pathway for them out of debt and the benefits system and the hopelessness of unemployment. The economic and social impacts are huge both for them and for …
The Case for Microfinance in the UK
Posted on 3rd December 2020 | Uncategorized
Microfinance is a third world term. It began there, in Bangladesh, and became spectacularly successful as a means of breaking cycles of poverty and debt in poor communities and enabling people to build their own futures, rather than remain dependent on predatory lenders or well-meaning programmes of help.
In the UK …