David Floyd

Biography

David Floyd is Managing Director of Social Spider CIC. As part of this role he is a researcher and consultant on social impact investment, and the publisher of three community newspapers.

Since 2012, David has been working with social entrepreneurs, funders and investors to help make the UK's social impact investment market relevant to a wider range of charities and social enterprises - and to ensure its delivers additional social impact over and above that provided by mainstream finance.

In 2015, he was project manager for the The Alternative Commission on Social Investment, funded by Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. Since then, David has carried out writing, research and consultancy on social enterprise and social investment for clients including: Access: The Foundation for Social Investment; Big Lottery Fund; Centre for Public Impact; GMCVO; Power to Change and RBS. His most recent report, published in January 2019 by Social Investment Business, gives an overview of the use of the UK's Social Investment Tax Relief, since its launch in 2014.

Social Spider CIC launched its first community newspaper, Waltham Forest Echo in 2014 and has since launch two more, Tottenham Community Press and Enfield Dispatch. The publications combine professional journalism with volunteers input from local residents and community organisations - creating a new, sustainable model for local news. Social Spider CIC write about the development of their model on the blog, Start Spreading The News.

David is a trustee of Magma Poetry, and a non-executive director of Doing Social and Significant Seams CIC. He is a fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs and Finance Innovation Lab, a member of the Good Finance steering group and a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College. He was a speaker at the Social Finance Forum in Toronto in 2017. He writes The Equaliser column for Pioneers Post and blogs at beanbagsandbullsh1t.com