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Creating positive impact across the world

The challenges we face transcend borders; but so can the solutions. The Bridges Group continues to play a role in catalysing impact across the world through a range of strategies, from Nigeria to Israel, the Netherlands to Ghana…

Bridges Israel

Bridges Israel was launched in 2019 as an independent affiliate of Bridges Fund Management. It has its own investment strategy and governance, but it shares the same underlying investment philosophy, and will draw on the impact methodologies and expertise developed by Bridges’ UK and US teams since 2002. Sir Ronald Cohen, co-founder of Bridges and a leading figure in the growth of impact investing around the world, chairs its Advisory Board.

As an investor, Bridges Israel’s aim is to tackle the inequalities that are prevalent in the state of Israel (which has the highest poverty rate in the OECD, and also a very high rate of income inequality). It does this via a two-pronged strategy: by investing in growth businesses that support underserved populations, and in impactful ‘tech for good’ companies with the potential to scale both in Israel and beyond.

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Bridges U.S.

In 2015, we launched the Bridges U.S. Sustainable Growth Fund, to invest in lower middle-market U.S. growth companies operating within the healthcare, education, energy and environmental services sectors – as well as those providing quality jobs and services to underserved communities.

We later set up a U.S.-facing sister organisation to The Bridges Impact Foundation. The Bridges Impact Foundation U.S. currently runs the Turner MIINT programme (providing hands-on education of investing for impact to graduates) and Impact Frontiers (advancing the integration of impact into financial frameworks and decision-making).

SDG Outcomes

Bridges’ specialist Outcomes team continues to take its world-leading expertise to new regions and countries to create transformative outcomes and demonstrate the unique power of this approach, via our SDG Outcomes initiative.

From education programmes in Sierra Leone, India and Ghana, to plastic waste management in Nigeria and job creation in Turkiye – we’re working in low- and middle-income countries with governments, donors, delivery partners and impact-driven investors to improve hundreds of thousands of lives, as well as protect our natural world.

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28th January 2025

Units now under construction at Harrogate 47

Construction has now begun on 106,000 sq. ft. of units at Harrogate 47, as part of a scheme we’re developing with Opus North that could support 2,000 jobs

22nd January 2025

Tom Street joins Bridges Inclusive Growth

Tom joins as an Investment Director for Bridges Inclusive Growth, our private equity strategy focused on UK social impact businesses

19th December 2024

Bridges completes fifth exit of 2024 with sale of Alina Disability Support

Bridges has completed its fifth exit of 2025, with the sale by Alina Homecare of its Disability Support division to national care provider Swanton

11th December 2024

Bridges exits Leeds commercial building

The Bridges Property Funds have completed the sale of 6 East Parade, a prime office building in central Leeds,