Abstract
"Community Investment" is investing various resources including funds for the purpose of the support for activity concerning the self-supporting, autonomous and sustainable regional economy revival by the community residents itself, namely Community Economic Development, and is one form of the social responsibility investment, SRI, which is attracting attention in Japan in recent years. This paper considers the meaning of community investment on the topic of Social Exclusion used as the big social problem in Britain. Financial exclusion is one form of the social exclusion, and such exclusion leads a person to poverty with difficult recovery. Community Investment serves as a tool of Social Inclusion by carrying out empowerment of the funds to those who are excluded. Companies are expected to play important roles in there because of their economically sustainable mechanism.
