What is Microfinance?

Microfinance, an effective and flexible tool in tackling global poverty, is a range of financial services for the poor: credit, savings, insurance, remittances plus financial literacy and business training.  Microfinance is increasingly achieving sustainability and needs scaling up to respond to the urgent needs of the world’s poor.

Microfinance has grown from providing poor families with small loans or microcredit to helping them engage in productive activities and grow their businesses. Today over 100 million families benefit from microfinance, and the goal is 500 million by 2015. Great strides still need to be made to reach those targets by improving the capacity of the microfinance sector and integrating into overall financial systems.

What is the Club?

We provide a forum for UK enthusiasts of microfinance with over 360 members from NGOs, corporates, government, media, universities and the public. Our aims are to exchange best practice, raise awareness and share information to help improve the delivery of microfinance to the world's poor.

We offer an average of ten events a year, featuring world experts and practitioners of microfinance, an information hub and the opportunity to exchange ideas with other professionals. We look forward to seeing you at one of our events.

The first event you attend may be free if place is available after members have registered. This will allow you to experience the club and meet with existing members. To check availability, please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . You are  of course welcome to join as a member immediately through our membership page. If you are already a member, please login and click on the "Register for an Event" button to book your place a the next event.