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Street Cred - a project of Quaker Social Action

Group Purpose:
* Street Cred has been helping women into self-employment since 1998, through business support and small loans.
* Street Cred is a group-lending scheme: no collateral, credit history or business plan is required; the group acts both as a support and as a moral guarantee.
* Each woman is entitled to a first loan of up to £500 (with a 6% service charge) and a second loan of up to double the initial loan (with a 10% service charge).
* Clients have a year to repay each loan.
Women Only:
Yes
Based In:
Tower Hamlets
Service Is:
Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Newham and Hackney
Address:
45-47 Blythe Street
LONDON
E2 6LN
Phone:
020-7729 9267
Fax:
020-7729 5157
Email:
streetcred@dial.pipex.com
Web:
http://www.quakersocialaction.com
Hours:
10am to 5pm
Languages spoken:
English. (Bengali, Croatian, Spanish, French and Hebrew speakig staff can help on request)
Current Funders:
European, SRB, Companies and trustees
Donations Sought:
Yes
Send Donations or for more Details to:
Jenny Wright, Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Quaker Court, London EC1Y 8QQ
Date First Included:
14/01/2004
Information Updated:
2nd March 2005

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