Here are some of our partners.
Contact Tom Sanderson, UK Director if you are interested in partnering with us...
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.
