Pathway At JRF’s Next Frontiers Conference

Our Project Director, Dilys Kyeiwaa Winterkorn, last month, joined a panel at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)’s NextFrontiers2024 conference, discussing the movement from private ownership to community stewardship - an important area of work to revolutionise the investment and social investment spaces.

The Next Frontiers conference invites people from across the finance ecosystem to explore transformative approaches to wealth management and redistribution, philanthropy, and investment. The participants at the conference are asking a critical question: where does wealth need to flow to, to better serve people and the planet? This is a question we all need to be asking, and Pathway is thrilled to contribute to this dialogue.

During her session, Dilys outlined how Pathway believes that we need to be chanelling significantly more investment into Black and Ethnically Minoritised communities, for enterprise development as well as asset acquisition, to ensure that we see our communities flourish - and to ensure that capital is in the hands of those that need it the most.

Pathway's recommendations and sector-leading approach will:

🔵  Enable the 75% of Black and Ethnic Minoritised-led social enterprises, that are calling out for repayable finance, to grow and scale their impact in the communities they are serving.

🔵  Unlock £24 billion for the UK's economy.

🔵  And with that, forever change the fact that only 2-5% of social investment goes to Black and Ethnic Minoritised-led charities and social enterprises.

We're delighted to be there - and will be sharing further reflections on the discussions from this hugely important moment for the social investment sector.