Erika Rushton MBE is co-founder and Strategy Director of Kindred, a member-led community interest company that invests in socially trading organisations across the Liverpool City Region through a fund offering 0% interest loans repayable in part through social return.
She works part time for Kindred alongside running her own business, Creative Economist, which specialises in creative and community entrepreneurship and its capacity to transform places. She has founded successive community-led and community-owned property companies and investment funds, and has championed community ownership of land, property and wealth. She leads on Kindred’s work with the Liverpool City Region Social Investment Pathfinder, and is a founder of the One Day network, a group of women who rewrote the city region’s economic strategy from a women’s perspective. She was awarded an MBE for services to civil society and social enterprise.