Event: a new look at solidarity-based savings

When savers get involved in transforming our economy.

On 5 December last year, France Active invited financial players to change the way they look at solidarity-based savings on the 1st anniversary of Actifs Solidaires, an initiative aimed at making investment accessible to voluntary sector managers and Social Economy companies. The aim of the event is to demonstrate how citizen savings respond to local social and ecological challenges through socially responsible investment. Discover the programme and replay of this evening event, which took place at the Maison de la Conversation in Paris.

From savings to solidarity-based investment :

In recent years, social and environmental needs have become increasingly pressing. At the same time, the economic models of associations and Social Economy companies have come under pressure (increasing number of beneficiaries, inflation, falling subsidies, public calls for projects, etc.). Against this backdrop, France Active has launched a programme to encourage these structures to invest in order to bounce back, cross thresholds and further develop their social utility. This initiative, called Actifs Solidaires, is celebrating its 1st year.
How are these socially useful projects financed? Through socially responsible citizen savings! To help finance projects run by associations and Social Economy companies, France Active invests French people’s solidarity savings. These savings are little-known (France Active-Fair survey by OpinionWay), even though the French are the biggest savers in Europe. Yet this survey shows that if they knew about solidarity-based savings, they would be in favour of it, because it meets their expectations, both in terms of its social and ecological impact and its level of profitability over the medium and long term.

5 décembre, un événement à Paris :

At this event, France Active looked again at the concerns of savers to demonstrate how solidarity-based savings responds to them and how it helps to finance associations and companies in the Social Economy.

• How does solidarity-based savings transform the economy?
• How does it help to support sustainable projects with strong potential for social innovation?
• How does solidarity financing provide a strong territorial base and a collective dimension to the development of these territories?

These will be the 3 themes addressed during the evening.

Au programme : 

17:00 – Opening by Pierre-René Lemas, Chairman of France Active

Talkshow with investment players:

• Laurence Laplane-Rigal, Amundi
• and Cédric Renaud, Caisse d’Épargne

Entrepreneurs:

• The directors of Protectus, Les Alchimistes
• and Jardins de la voie romaine

Social Economy and solidarity-based savings players:

• Marion Le Cam, Fédération Nationale de l’Offre de services de la MSA
• and Éric Larpin, Label Finansol

Talkshow hosted by Sébastien Borgnat, former LCI morning show journalist.

To close the event, Pierre-René Lemas called for solidarity-based savings schemes to be made universally available, giving employees of SMEs and large groups alike access to this type of savings. This will enable the associations and Social Economy companies that benefit from them to expand their activities.