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/