CASE STUDY

The Questions Publishing Company Limited

For-Profit Business

Loan from ART co-financed development costs, with a clearing bank, to develop a new interactive website service for all schools, including the disadvantaged areas that ART pinpoints.

A for-profit organisation, and significant local employer. A well established publisher of educational material, based in Birmingham's inner-city Jewellery Quarter. The company provides a huge range of books, magazines, videos and classroom material for schools. It publishes Special Children, Managing Schools Today, Interactive, Primary Maths & Science, Literacy & Learning, PE & Sport Today, and Teacher Thinking. It also provides websites for schools and interactive information via the web.

Contact: Howard Sharron on 0121 212 0919

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTION USED:
Aston Reinvestment Trust (ART)

Community Development Loan Fund

Aston Reinvestment Trust is a local community development financial institution in Birmingham. ART directs investment where bank finance is unavailable in full or part to promote social outcomes and promotes the sensible use of loan finance to Social Enterprises and Small Businesses.

Contact: Steve Walker or Martin Allcott on 0121 359 2444.

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