Good Investment - Salt North East Network event

At this workshop we will be looking at the topic of ‘good investment’ and how we can achieve a more ‘sustainable financial’ system. Discussions will include:

• how you choose a bank or building society for your cash reserves that promotes financial inclusion
• how to make your pensions provider or asset managers more ethical or fossil-fuel free by investing pooled or treasury funds of the company.
• how to navigate the landscape of ‘impact investing’, where you explicitly aim to invest in projects and companies that have a clearly identified social or environmental outcome.

Guest Speaker: Tim Morgan.

• Tim has been Finance Director at Shared Interest since 2009. He is a Chartered Accountant and Secretary who has worked with values-based businesses for almost 25 years. He was Finance Director of Traidcraft for eight years and continues to be Company Secretary of Cafédirect’s linked charity (Producers Direct) and a Non-Executive Director of Ecology Building Society

Attendees will be inspired and supported to think about how they can put values to work by leading change in their own business, provoking a community of change across faith and business networks and resourcing change by supporting entrepreneurs in the global south.

Workshops are free to attend but attendees are encouraged to make a donation towards Christian Aid's work.

Christian Aid is working to eradicate poverty across the world, and is coming up with some innovative ways to do just that. We are inviting business leaders to work with us, and with each other, to tackle global poverty. The new Salt Business Network is open to anyone who owns a business, or is in a senior management position within a commercial organisation. It is for leaders who want to join a movement of like-minded people, who will learn about putting in place more responsible business practices, and about sustainable development, through the lens of faith. To find out more please see www.caid.org.uk/salt or email salt@christian-aid.org

Attendees are invited to join us for a meal (at member’s expense) following the event.