Malcolm Hayday
Chief Executive,
The Charity Bank
(London, UK)
Malcolm Hayday, FRSA, is the Chief Executive of The Charity Bank Limited, the UK’s first general charity to be authorised as a bank.
He was previously the Director of Community Finance at CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) and Director of CAF’s social investment loan fund, Investors in Society.
He is in his second term (1996-2002) (2004-) as a Board Member of INAISE, the International Association of Investors in the Social Economy, a global network of social investment institutions, having been its President, 1997-2001. From 2000 to 2007 he was a Trustee of The Big Issue Foundation and was elected its Chairman in 2003. From 2002 to 2003 he was a founding Board member of the Community Development Finance Association (CDFA). Until 2007 Malcolm was a member of the Advisory Group of global foundation leaders to the World Economic Forum. He is proud to be a member of the Advisory Group for NCVO’s Sustainable Funding Project and the Accountable Officer to the UK Government for the Futurebuilders Fund. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Malcolm has more than 30 years experience in business finance. He graduated from Exeter University in 1972 with a BA Hons. in Economics. After university he assumed progressively senior positions with City financial institutions. From 1987 he concentrated on finance for small and medium sized businesses. He joined CAF in 1993 to establish the loans service for charities. He has written a number of papers on the social economy and social investment.
He was a member of the advisory group to the Small is Bankable report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (1998); the advisory group to the Development Trusts Association on asset based development (1998-9); the SEEDA social capital fund study group (2000); and the working group on social investment in Scotland which led to the development of Social Investment Scotland. He was also a member of the Arts Council of England national steering group on new financial instruments.