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Livv and Flourish Fund

Overview

A fund delivered by Livv Housing Group offering small, blended investments ranging from £10 - 150k, specifically to VCSEs in the Liverpool City Region.

It uses funding from the Enterprise Growth for Communities Programme to reach smaller organisations in disadvantaged areas. EGC helps trading charities and social enterprises grow or diversify their business models. 

Partners

  • £1.5 million

    grant committed

  • £3 million

    co-investment raised

  • £4.5 million

    total fund size

  • 100%

    expected to go to VCSEs located in 20% most deprived communities

  • Find out more from Livv Housing Group

  • What the Livv and Flourish fund meant for Make CIC

    Make, a Community Interest Company (CIC) set up in 2012, unites and enriches communities through creativity, art and culture. Its makerspaces in Liverpool, Huyton and now Birkenhead, create places for makers and artisans to turn their passions into prosperity.

Budding green-fingered business entrepreneur Agnieszka Holubik opened Once Upon a Plant in May this year at Make CIC. Make CIC applied to the Livv and Flourish fund to support the development of their new premises in Birkenhead