A pioneering collaboration between the housing sector, social sector and social investors will deliver a new programme to tackle rough sleeping across Greater Manchester, as part of a £1.8m Government-backed outcomes contract. The GM Homes Partnership – a consortium put together by One Manchester and Trafford Housing Trust, two Greater Manchester-based housing providers, and Bridges Fund Management […]
Read morePositive Families Partnership is a new initiative designed to help deal with the pressing social challenge of keeping vulnerable families together, by preventing young people from being taken into care Over 350 at-risk families will be given access to therapeutic interventions with an established track record The programme has been jointly commissioned by five London […]
Read morePositive Families Partnership is a new initiative designed to help keep hundreds of vulnerable families across London together, by preventing young people from being taken into care. Jointly commissioned by five London boroughs — Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Bexley, Merton and Newham — it has been structured as an outcomes contract funded by a social impact bond — so the provider is […]
Read moreEach year, the Queen’s Birthday Honours List recognises the achievements of extraordinary people across the UK. We were very proud to learn that Bridges partner Antony Ross was among those honoured this year, receiving an OBE for his services to Social Enterprise and Investment. Read more on this here. See what the press said at: […]
Read moreMayday’s new programme ‘Be the Change!’ will initially support 100 young people in very challenging situations, identifying their strengths and helping them change their lives The programme has been commissioned by First for Wellbeing CIC, a pioneering partnership between the local authority, NHS trust and university, with support from the Big Lottery Fund It is […]
Read moreSocial sector organisations should be playing a much greater role in delivering outsourced public services – and social impact bonds are a useful tool to help them capitalise on the growing interest in outcomes-based commissioning, writes Andrew Levitt for Pioneers Post. Read the full article here. Read our latest report on the evolution of social impact […]
Read moreThanks to our friends at Big Society Capital, Bridges has made a short film about the foster care programme our Social Impact Bond Fund is financing in Birmingham. The film explains how Core Assets is helping to move at-risk young people out of residential care and into secure foster placements, with the help of a […]
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that the Bridges Social Sector Funds won two (out of five) awards at the prestigious Cabinet Office Social Investment Awards 2016. Now in their second year, these awards are intended to “highlight the innovation and dedication of world-leading social investors and enterprises”. The Bridges Social Entrepreneurs Fund (SEF) won the […]
Read moreIn a piece for The Guardian, Tim Smedley explores how charities have found the experience of operating within a social impact bond structure. Kieran Gordon, chief executive of Career Connect, is among those to share his experiences of working on a SIB-funded programme – discussing the challenges of pricing outcomes, the added flexibility within service […]
Read moreBridges Ventures (“Bridges”), the specialist fund manager focused exclusively on sustainable and impact investment, has issued a white paper examining the way forward for social impact bonds (“SIBs”).
Read moreBig Society Capital has created two short films highlighting the impact being made by two social sector organisations that have benefited from Bridges’ investment. HCT Group, a social enterprise bus operator that uses its profits to provide community transport services and training, raised a pioneering £4m round of investment from a group of social investors […]
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that our research paper, ‘Choosing Social Impact Bonds: A Practitioner’s Guide’, created in partnership with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, has come in joint first place at the 2015 Sustainable Investment Awards. The report was the first piece of research that looked globally across the first wave of SIBs to […]
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