Organisation: Clann Credo

Address: Irish Social Finance Centre, 10 Grattan Crescent Inchicore Dublin 8

Contact: Paul O'Sullivan

Telephone: 01 400 2100

Fax: 01 453 1862

Email: info@clanncredo.ie

Website: www.clanncredo.ie

Clann Credo - the Social Investment Fund, is the leading provider of social finance to community-based projects in Ireland, and has offices in Dublin, Cork and Foxford. It is a not-for-profit organisation with charitable status. Clann Credo provides repayable finance to community and voluntary organisations and charities, which find it difficult to access funding from mainstream financial institutions. This support is primarily through loan finance and occasionally direct investment. All projects are evaluated on their potential to make a social, as well as a financial return. Since 1996, over €20 million has been invested in more than 170 groups in Ireland. Support has also been provided to organisations in Kosovo, Slovakia and South Africa. Clann Credo - the Social Investment Fund also provides training and mentoring to the sector.