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 […]
Read moreBridges Ventures today announced that the J.P. Morgan Social Finance Unit has invested £2.75 million in the Bridges Social Entrepreneurs Fund, bringing the fund to a final close of £11.75 million. The investment is the first UK-based commitment by the J.P. Morgan Social Finance Unit. Launched in 2009, the Bridges Social Entrepreneurs Fund aims to […]
Read moreBridges Ventures, the sustainable growth investor, has expanded its investment team for the second time this year with the appointment of Alistair Tillen. In his role as Investment Director, Alistair will work across the major investment themes of the Bridges Venture Funds: underserved areas, environment, education & skills and health & well-being. He will focus […]
Read moreReal Deals has named Michele Giddens, Bridges partner and co-founder, as one of the top 20 most influential people in the global private equity industry. The publication points out that when Bridges was launched in 2002, the idea of a private equity firm trying to “deliver a profit at the same time as making a […]
Read moreDr 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 […]
Read moreJessica Frame, incoming CEO, has previously held senior leadership roles at Tesco, BCG and NutriCentre Sally Bailey, incoming Chair, was the CEO responsible for transforming White Stuff into one of the UK’s leading outdoor lifestyle brands The Vet now has six sites across the UK, with new clinics due to launch in the year ahead […]
Read moreWe 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 […]
Read more19 May 2011: Social enterprise Care and Share Associates (CASA), which develops employee-owned domiciliary care companies, and Bridges Ventures, the sustainable growth investor, have finalised terms on an initial £200K investment designed to enable the company to prepare for future expansion. The investment will be made by Bridges Ventures’ Social Entrepreneurs Fund in the form […]
Read moreMichele Giddens, Bridges’ partner and co-founder, was profiled in The Financial Times recently, talking about the role that impact investment and profit-with-purpose businesses can play in tackling some of the UK’s pressing social challenges. In the article, Michele talks about Bridges’ growth from its first fund in 2002 to today’s multi-fund platform. She also calls […]
Read moreMore 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 […]
Read moreWe 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 […]
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 […]
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