Neighbourly announced raising £3m Series A investment from Guinness Asset Management

Neighbourly, a Birmingham, UK-based CSR company, announced securing funding of £3 million ($4.1M) in Series A investment round.

The money was raised from independent asset management group Guinness Asset Management.

As part of the investment, Guinness Fund Manager Ashley Abrahams will join the board of directors alongside the existing team.

Neighbourly, founded in 2014 by CEO Steve Butterworth, developed a social network promoting hyper-local causes. Since launching the platform in 2014, we’ve worked with corporate partners like Aldi, M&S, Lidl, Danone, M&G Investments, Cadent and RSA Insurance, to support over 16,000 local good causes across the UK and Ireland that help an average of 350 people each per week.