1st June 2012
Bridges Ventures scoops up HealthInvestor’s property award
London, 1 June 2012: Sustainable growth investor Bridges Ventures was named ‘Property Investor of the Year’ at the HealthInvestor Awards 2012, during a ceremony held at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel last night. The HealthInvestor Awards recognise organisations and individuals that have made an outstanding contribution to healthcare in 2011. Bridges Ventures was chosen as winner […]
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15th June 2012
Bridges Ventures Wins Award for Excellence at the FT/IFC Sustainable Finance awards
London, 18 June 2012: Sustainable growth investor Bridges Ventures (‘Bridges’) has been announced as the winner of the 2012 FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance and as joint winner of the Sustainable Investor of the Year category. The FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Awards, announced last night at a gala dinner, are the major […]
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5th January 2012
Halo wins Broker Innovation of the Year
Halo Insurance Services has won Broker Innovation of the Year at the 2011 Insurance Times Awards. The Awards took place on December 6th in London. Bridges Ventures would like to congratulate them on this outstanding achievement.
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19th October 2011
Bridges Ventures awarded a commendation at BVCA Responsible Investment Awards
We are pleased to announce that Bridges Ventures have been awarded a commendation at the inaugural BVCA Responsible Investment Awards, recognising private equity and venture capital companies who have made a notable commitment to the responsible investment agenda. The awards, presented by Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, at the BVCA Summit in Central London […]
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27th June 2011
Bridges Ventures named in ImpactAssets Global 50
London, 27 June 2011: Bridges Ventures, the sustainable growth investor, has been named in the ImpactAssets 50 – a global list of the top 50 private investment managers that successfully deliver social and environmental value as well as financial returns. Bridges Ventures was recognised as bridging the gap between competitive investor returns and the social […]
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30th September 2011
The Hoxton wins Best UK Hotel for the third year in a row
The Hoxton Hotel have just been awarded Best UK Hotel at the Guardian and Observer Travel Awards for the third year in a row! Bridges Ventures would like to congratulate them on this fantastic achievement.
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17th November 2010
Bridges Ventures awarded at 2010 Education Investor awards ceremony
We are delighted to announce that Bridges Ventures was awarded The Judge’s Commendation in the Investors of the Year category at the 2010 Education Investor awards ceremony, held last night at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. The panel of judges praised Bridges Ventures for its “inclusive approach and strongly personalised focus on learning”.
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18th November 2016
Bridges named Investor of the Year at the EducationInvestor Awards 2016
Bridges was delighted to be named ‘Investor of the Year’ at the 2016 EducationInvestor Awards. The award recognises Bridges’ track record of working with outstanding management teams to build high-growth, high-impact businesses in the education sector. This year’s highlight was our successful exit from Babington Group, a Derby-based apprenticeships provider, which was sold to RJD […]
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10th October 2016
Dr Guy Turnbull receives EY Social Enterprise of the Year award
Dr Guy Turnbull, Managing Director of CASA, triumphed at the national finals of the EY Entrepreneur of The Year 2016 awards, taking home the Social Entrepreneur award. CASA is an employee-owned social enterprise that provides high-quality domiciliary and complex health and social care to the elderly, disabled and vulnerable. Its innovative business model leads to […]
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25th October 2016
Bridges wins Finance for the Future Award
We were delighted to win the Investing and Financing category in the recent ‘Finance for the Future Awards 2016’, in recognition of the success of the Bridges Social Entrepreneurs Fund. This fund was the first of its kind in the UK: an institutional closed-ended fund designed to provide quasi-equity, plus strategic and operational support, to […]
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25th October 2016
More than Measurement: A Practitioner’s Journey to Impact Management
More than Measurement is a new report by Bridges Impact+ and Skopos Impact Fund. It describes our development of an ‘impact management’ approach – which we define as the management of assets in order to meet explicit impact goals (alongside financial goals). This paper has catalysed a global effort to develop a shared convention for describing […]
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6th October 2016
Bridges wins BVCA Responsible Investment Award for ESG leadership
We are very proud to have won the 2016 BVCA Responsible Investment Award for Overall ESG Framework for firms under £1bn in management. The BVCA Responsible Investment Awards seek to demonstrate that by managing ESG issues throughout the investment cycle, private equity can drive greater value in UK companies and build more sustainable businesses, making […]
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