The Human Lending Library of the West Midlands

Site Admin • 13 June 2020

source: BVSC 
published: 6 April 2020

iSE was delighted to be working with charity Expert Impact to launch the Human Lending Library Birmingham. Following in the footsteps of London, Manchester and New York, the Human Lending Library connects some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs to organisations making a positive social or environmental impact.

Through the Human Lending Library, social entrepreneurs looking for business advice can ‘borrow’ an Expert, for free, to help them solve their challenges and scale.


Experts include the founders of Pret-a-Manger, John Frieda, Mumsnet and many other leading companies. You can browse all the experts here.


For your application to be successful you must be running a charity or social enterprise that makes a positive impact in one or more of the following areas: education, healthcare, the arts, scientific research, poverty alleviation, the environment.

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