Head of Social Investment Cymru
Alun is a reformed banker who started working for WCVA on Communities Investment Fund in 2012 and now leads on all of WCVA’s social investment activity. Social Investment Cymru (SIC) continues its mission putting money to work in communities and is now the largest Wales based social lender. Its highly popular Social Business Growth Fund and Community Asset Development Fund are trail blazers for innovative funding in Europe.
SIC exists to lend where other won’t and what gets Alun out of bed in the mornings is seeing the effect that this funding has in helping change people’s lives for the better. He gets a lot more hugs from borrowers than he ever did working in a bank…