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Shared Interest: Investing in a Fairer World, 20th Anniversary
Shared Interest Investing in a Fairer World 20th Anniversary Author:Sue Osborne 'You will need GBP25m to make it work. You're trying to do the impossible, but good luck!'. That's what Donald Clarke, Finance Director at Europe's largest venture capital organization, 3i, told Mark Hayes, one of his investment managers, when Mark outlined his concept for Shared Interest in the late 1980s. This is the inside story of how Shared... more » Interest has grown in just 20 years to become a thriving, successful lending co-operative, with a share capital of over GBP26m, lending money to 101 Fair Trade businesses in 36 countries across the globe.« less