Together we build the future 

Helping small businesses is something we do every day at Qred. By engaging with businesses and offering a range of services, entrepreneurs are empowered to grow their companies. All so they can focus on what they really care about - their businesses. It's our passion, and right now we're helping more than 12 000 small businesses grow, creating 10 jobs a day, 7 days a week.

We want to drive
change where we can

This is what we do to improve society, one step at a time.

Creating more jobs for small business owners

Empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs

End poverty - once and for all

Actively work with measures to reduce climate impact

Hand in hand

Hand in Hand works to educate, mainly young people
and women, vulnerable through a focus on entrepreneurship. Through knowledge and will, companies can be started, developed, and poverty no longer becomes everyday life.

Read more about how Hand in Hand works here.

Construction entrepreneurs in workwear who have received financing from Qred Bank

Read more about our collaboration with Hand in Hand  

Poverty is a reality in many parts of the world, and this is largely due to the lack of jobs. One solution is the combination of education, entrepreneurship and belief that the will and ability is in those who get an opportunity.

Here, Hand in Hand works to help people create and influence their own living conditions – with their own power, but also with a little help from us. Both Qred and Hand in Hand are convinced that entrepreneurship is the way out of poverty.

Together we have sponsored Ngusishi Village in Kenya. In the village, residents have been taught how to run and develop their own businesses, which has made Ngusishi Village full of entrepreneurs who are now completely self-sufficient.
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Muturi lusen self-help group and Ndemu clan during multi storey demonstration training.
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During the project
  • Over 350 members of the village received training
  • 218 businesses started and 339 jobs created.
  • Of these supervised entrepreneurs, 4/5 are women.

Women are central to development work as they have an important social and economic impact on both the family and society. Studies show that women spend 90% of their income on the family, therefore their development and education is one of the solutions in the fight against poverty. By providing long-term solutions such as education and networking, we are one step closer to ending poverty. Meet Faith who lives in Ngusishi:

Faith Kinya tells us how she saw life as a challenge full of food and financial worries. Today it is a different story, with education as the starting point and self-confidence as the end product. Faith has become a true entrepreneur and is developing her business as a farmer on a daily basis.
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Watch the Hand in Hand video to learn more about their vision.
Another chapter - Mutunyi Village

Qred wants to continue to drive change and has therefore chosen to continue its cooperation with Hand in Hand and their vision of combating poverty in the long term through entrepreneurship education. Ngusishi Village has proven itself by becoming completely independent, but a large part of the population of Meru province in which the village is located is still unemployed.

Therefore, Qred sponsors the village of Mutunyi Village located in the same province of Kenya. Today, Mutunyi Village is made up of small-scale farmers who often feel a concern about food and money. With Hand in Hand, they will learn how to run and develop businesses. This gives the inhabitants of the village the opportunity to take control of their economy and their lives, and thus they can also become completely independent.

Growth Stockholm

Tillväxt Stockholm was founded to give more local small businesses the opportunity to develop as entrepreneurs. By expanding their operations, more jobs can be created and integration increased.

Click here to find out more.

Construction entrepreneurs in workwear who have received financing from Qred Bank

Read more about our collaboration with Tillväxt Stockholm  

Having a job may seem like a given for many, but it is not for everyone.
Unemployment and exclusion are common in suburbs around Stockholm. This is why the Tillväxt Stockholm foundation exists.

In its work, Tillväxt Stockholm wants to give local small businesses support to develop their operations. By bringing in established actors and leaders from the business community as advisors, companies can receive support in areas where there is currently a lack of capacity, knowledge and skills.

When small businesses can get support in areas such as recruitment, inclusion in society can increase, and more people have the opportunity to enter the labor market as new jobs are created. We at Qred know that entrepreneurship is the key to more jobs, and together with Tillväxt Stockholm, more small businesses will now have the opportunity to succeed.

"Supporting small businesses and their entrepreneurs - the key to more jobs and increased inclusion"
‍Itwas in our shared understanding of the importance of entrepreneurs in society that Tillväxt Stockholm and Qred's collaboration took off. Among other things, we will provide broader advice, dedicated mentorships and much more, all to help smaller companies take the next step in their businesses.
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In 3.5 years, over 530 jobs have been created through Tillväxt Stockholm. The goal is over 1000 jobs in 5 years.
Of course, we want to be involved and support that, so let's go! 💚

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Essay scholarship

Qred offers a scholarship once a year to highlight issues related to small businesses and entrepreneurship. It involves researching the entrepreneurial sectors in which Qred operates with innovative questions. Last year, 30,000 essays were written, of which only 27 were about small businesses. Now we're turning to undergraduate and graduate students to shine the spotlight on entrepreneurs.
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Want to know more? Read here.

Swedish business owner who is satisfied with his Qred VISA business card

Breakit Impact Challenge

For us at Qred, sustainability is important. Becoming a more climate-smart actor is therefore high on our list to act more sustainably. In 2019 and 2020, we participated in the BreakIt Impact Challenge, where companies take on different challenges to become more climate-smart during five weeks. The different steps were:

🚲 Climate-smart travel
📦 Green suppliers
💚 Sustainable business model
🌱 Sustainable workplace
♻️ Climate Competence Station