Faisel Rahman has been recognised for his outstanding work in shaping, guiding and championing the UK’s social enterprise sector by being awarded an honorary fellowship from Social Enterprise UK, the trade body for the sector. Social enterprises are businesses which trade for a social or environmental purpose, reinvesting the majority of their profits to further […]
Fair Finance CEO Faisel Rahman receives honorary fellowship from Social Enterprise UK for his contribution to supporting the social enterprise movement
Fair Money Advice Goes Global!
Discovering the state of the financial education and exclusion sector in Spain and understanding what can be learnt from the experience in the UK Recently the Fair Money Advice team took a trip to Madrid to collaborate with the Nantik Lum foundation. The trip was primarily an opportunity for FMA to complete the training of […]
Teamspirit announces 2020 pro bono client, Fair Money Advice
Teamspirit, the UK’s leading fully integrated financial services agency, has announced its pro bono client for 2020: problem-debt prevention charity Fair Money Advice. Fair Money Advice is part of the Fair Finance Group and has a mission to free individuals and communities from problem-debt. It offers targeted crisis and preventative services, including free and independent […]
Fair Finance shortlisted for the Citi Micro-entrepreneurship Awards 2020
The Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards are the annual celebration of Britain’s microentrepreneurs who have accessed “responsible” business finance. The awards, which launched in 2005, (and in 2013 in the UK) were established by the Citi Foundation to recognise best-in-class microentrepreneurs and the responsible finance sector. The awards are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, celebrating […]
Why There Is No Such Thing As Financial Exclusion
“Fair Finance CEO speaks at the annual Glasgow Caledonian University GCPH lecture” The Glasgow Centre for Population Health generates insights and evidence and supports new approaches to improve health and tackle inequality. They hold an annual lecture series and this year invited Fair Finance’s founder and CEO to speak on financial exclusion. In this lecture, […]
Fair Finance Celebrates 3 years of being a Living Wage Employer
Fair Finance is proud to be an accredited London Living Wage employer. We are a values driven business and believe in doing the right thing for our clients and employees. Being a London Living Wage employer is one of the ways that we can show our commitment to treating our employees fairly. Fair Finance plans […]
Fair Finance, with the support of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, begins a major project looking to strengthen the financial resilience of low income communities in London
Nearly 13m people across the country would be pushed into financial difficulty with an unexpected bill. Rising living costs and increasing job insecurity for low income families makes this an increasingly challenging issue nationally but also for the 2m, mostly working, people living in poverty in London Fair Finance is a London based social business […]
Fair Personal Loans profiled in The Sun
We’re happy to announce that Fair Personal loans has been profiled as an alternative to high cost credit as part of The Sun’s “Stop the Credit Rip Off” campaign. The Sun’s campaign “has been successful in calling for a cap on the total cost of high-cost credit charged by big, well-known providers that can be […]
Fair Finance releases 2018 annual report
After our 13th birthday party on Tuesday, Fair Finance are very happy to announce the release of our annual report for the year ended March 2018. See here for the full details. Highlights include £5.6m lent and nearly 25,000 people helped with loans, advice or support, but there’s lots more inside so please dive in. […]
Fair Finance Christmas Opening
Over the Christmas period we’re running a different service to normal, see below for details. We’re open as normal until the 22nd of December and we will be back to normal on the 2nd of January. We wish all of our customers a merry Christmas, and a happy and successful New Year. Fair Money Advice […]