Mission Statement - Aims and Objectives

Making money our servant rather than our master

Rebuilding Society Network is a specialist Community Development Finance Institution. Its purpose is to research, develop and support practical community finance services and mutual aid solutions for rebuilding sustainable communities in Britain.

RSN therefore both supports the development of new ‘mutual mechanisms’ and the renewal of older, proven co-operative approaches to address market failures. RSN is working to solve local economic regeneration challenges in ways that are socially and ecologically sustainable. The means is to address the key issues of access to capital, education, advice and technical support.

As a specialist community development financial institution (CDFI), RSN has the capacity to mobilise capital through share issues and through contractual partnerships with other CDFIs. It is therefore able to support innovative projects in Mid Wales and in other sub-regions, towns and cities in England and Wales. RSN is also developing partnership work focused on co-operative economic development tools with members of the Transition Towns Network.

A core methodology applied by RSN is horizontal learning networks. RSN has developed his methodology in the context of the establishment of Community Banking Partnerships.

Horizontal learning networks are designed to bring together the public, private and third sector agencies that that need to work together to deliver real results through local, practical partnerships. Frequently, these sectors find themselves competing in the effort to achieve the same objectives. Horizontal learning networks enable these difficulties to be overcome and make possible results whose effects are wide-ranging and durable, and whose benefits are capable of reaching beyond the initial objectives.