Partners
Here are some of our partners. Contact Tom Sanderson, UK Director if you are interested in partnering with us...
- St Paul's Institute - Located within the city of London, St Paul's Institute seeks to foster and informed Christian response to the most urgent ethical and spiritual issues of our times: financial integrity, economic theory, and the meaning of the common good.
- Transformational Business Network - Transformational Business Network is a network of business people and corporate organisations that uses an enterprise approach to tackle global poverty. TBN supports commercially sustainable small-medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries that create jobs, empower the poor and transform communities.
- Microfinance Club UK - This Club, based in London, facilitates exchange of ideas with microfinance practitioners, academics, bankers and policy makers through a programme of talks and events. Five Talents is an active Club member.
- Transforming Business - Transforming Business is a new research and development project in the University of Cambridge. The project aims to examine and disseminate the role of enterprise in the alleviation of poverty; the factors that stimulate ‘the spirit of enterprise’; the contribution of spiritual capital to transformative business; ethical frameworks that promote successful business; case studies and practical models that inform, motivate and multiply poverty-reducing enterprise.
- Holy Trinity Brompton - Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) is a vibrant Anglican church in Knightsbridge, London and home of the Alpha course. Five Talents has partnered with HTB to bring Social Transformation - seeking to give people the opportunity to express their faith through practical action, particularly to help the poor and disadvantaged.
- All Party Parliamentary Group on Microfinance - This Group provides a Parliamentary forum for discussion on new developments and current debates in the field of microfinance. The Group currently has almost 50 members, from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, representing the main political parties. Five Talents is a member of the Group representing one of the implementing NGOs in the sector. The overall purpose of the Group is to raise awareness of microfinance and the role it can play in reducing poverty, particularly in the developing world.
- Advocates for International Development (A4ID) - works with development organisations and developing countries to facilitate the provision of pro bono legal advice and assistance from leading lawyers, law firms and chambers in the areas of international trade, debt and development. Simmons & Simmons, a leading international law firm, is working through A4ID to address some of Five Talents' legal needs.
- Reconxile - alleviating poverty through basic business skills. They provide simple training materials (free of charge) to help people get the best chance of success out of loans from Microfinance and Village Savings and Loans schemes. The materials cover topics such as: how to attract customers; how to provide a quality product or service; and how to plan your money. Five Talents has helped to develop these training materials and is encouraging people to make use of them.
- Federation of Small Businesses - promotes and protects the interests of the self-employed and owners of small firms in the UK. Five Talents is member of the FSB and has exhibited at its national conference and participated in regional events. Five Talents supports the self-employed and small firms in developing countries and we are offering FSB members to learn about and support our work.
- Fundraising Standards Board - champions best practice in fundraising in the UK. Five Talents is a member of the FRSB and follows their code of practice, so you can donate with confidence.