NET monday 27 oct

the next evening of NET, the network of entrepreneurial talent is on monday oct 27th on the hms president on the thames as per usual with two guest speakers. here's the blurb

We have two speakers both of whom have extensive experience in financing transformational projects.

Daniel Brewer, Director of Resonance. Daniel is a social entrepreneur with a passion for people engaging their wealth with their values. Having spent several years in manufacturing he founded Resonance in 2002, a financial intermediary specialising in helping ‘social enterprises’ raise risk capital from values-led investors. He co-leads the joint venture Equity Plus which runs the Cabinet Office sponsored Social Enterprise Angel Network and has been a non-exec of a number of social enterprises involved in recycling, fair trade and tackling homelessness.

He admires people that take good risks, pursue their passions with conviction and still manage to hold it all lightly.

www.resonance.ltd.uk

Rachel Millward, Development Director of Five Talents. Five Talents is a Christian microfinance charity, working to fight poverty and create jobs in Africa, Asia and Latin America by providing loans and business training to poor entrepreneurs. Five Talents was established in 1998 by the worldwide Anglican Church as a practical means of improving the lives of the ‘economically active’ poor.  Five Talents establishes partnerships with community-based initiatives, providing business training, technical support and external funding.  Their partners lend to clients regardless of ethnicity or religious beliefs and 65% are women.  The average Five Talents client has five dependents and lives on less than $2 a day.

Rachel Millward joined Five Talents in August 2007. She previously worked as a Credit Analyst in the Credit Risk Management and Advisory Department of Goldman Sachs in London for 11 years.

http://www.fivetalents.org.uk/

Comments

[Jeremy]

Just noticed this today - too bad. Looks like it was a really interesting evening. I will look those two organisations up myself then.

[Rachel Millward]

Hi Jeremy, Rachel here. Shame you missed the NET event but if you have any further questions about what Five Talents does then do get in touch.

Rachel