Impact Reports

We publish an annual report to track our progress towards our vision of Building an Impact Economy.

Impact Reports

  • Building an Impact Economy 2024-2025

    This report marks the halfway point of our ten-year 'Building an Impact Economy' strategy and SIS's 25th anniversary year, where we reflect on the long-term systems change achieved across our ecosystem. It also outlines our priorities: expanding access to fair and affordable finance, supporting innovation, strengthening the Impact Economy, and driving policy change on financial inclusion.

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  • Building an Impact Economy 2023-2024

    In this report we reflect on record levels of loan approvals at SIS, the delivery of the Community Investment Enterprise Fund (CIEF) with Lloyds Bank, Better Society Capital and three CDFIs, the launch of Dechomai's Access Report with Firstport, and, as lead member of Financial Inclusion for Scotland, the group launched Scotland's first co-produced financial inclusion strategy.

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  • Building an Impact Economy 2022-2023

    In this report we continue to review our progress towards Building an Impact Economy. We then look in detail at the latest 12-month annual impact reporting period, April 2022 to March 2023.

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  • Building an Impact Economy 2021 - 2022

    In this report we review our progress towards Building an Impact Economy. We start by looking back over the first two years of the 10-year strategy, April 2020 to March 2021, measuring our impact progress through recognised impact frameworks and approaches. We then look in detail at the latest 12-month annual impact reporting period, April 2021 to March 2022.

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  • Building an Impact Economy 2020-2021

    In this report, we reflected on the first year of our Building an Impact Economy strategy. We explored progress through our key themes of working with Communities, capacity building enterprises through our Market-building activities and bolstering the growing network of Responsible Finance Providers through our Access to Finance funds.

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  • Building an Impact Economy 2019-2020

    In this report, we begin to chart our journey towards an impact economy, amidst the ongoing effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic. We pulled together the stories, achievements and experiences of SIS, our customers, and stakeholders to tell the story of our collective impact.

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