Foresters Community Finance

Foresters Community Finance Limited is a Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) providing finance and investment capital to the community sector in Australia.

Our goal is to employ community finance and social investment strategies to service and support people, organisations and communities who have limited access to mainstream financial institutions.

Foresters comes from the tradition of Friendly Societies in Australia and has been delivering community finance and social investment in Australia for more than 150 years.

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Money Available Now

With loan capital available now, Social Enterprise Solutions are ready to lend to any Australian social enterprise looking to grow and develop their organisation. The Social Enterprise Solutions team has been ...

From the CEO's Desk - Nov 11

Looking back over the year of 2011, I’d have to say this has been one of the most exciting and rewarding of my 7 years as CEO of Foresters Community ...

Social Enterprise Solutions Launch

The Social Enterprise Solutions program was officially launched on 11th October 2011. Belinda Drew, CEO of Foresters Community Finance Ltd presented an outline of the program and its purposes. Peter ...

From the CEO's Desk

Foresters has been on an extraordinary journey over the last 12 months or so, marked by significant growth, which is very exciting! We have commenced a number of new programs ...

Social Enterprise Solutions

Foresters Community Finance was today named as an appointed fund manager for the Australian Government’s Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund ...

Minister's Award for Excellence 2009

Minister’s Award for Excellence - Karran Mosely, Key Housing Solutions; Belinda McAuliffe, Parent to Parent; Marcelle Henricks, A Key for Me; Peter Ball, Foresters Community ...

US and UK Field Trip

Ingrid Burkett and Belinda Drew have recently returned from a field study tour of the US and UK looking at community development finance institutions, community finance and social investment. ...

Social Enterprise Finance Research

Foresters Community Finance will publish research in December which will provide Australia with the first comprehensive overview of the finance needs of social enterprises. The research, sponsored by mecu, ...

Social Procurement Research

Foresters Community Finance has been commissioned by the Centre for Social Impact to research the Social Procurement landscape in Australia based on an original report titled Social Enterprise and Social ...

The Development Trust Association (DTA)

The Development Trusts Association (DTA) is the leading network of community enterprise practitioners dedicated to helping people set up development trusts and helping existing development trusts learn from each other ...

Enquiries

Phone: 07 3851 8000
Email: Enquire
Fax: 07 3257 0291

Postal: PO Box 742
Fortitude Valley, Q 4006

Office: 35 Brookes Street
Bowen Hills, Q 4006

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