Innovate is a fast-growing school catering business that serves 120 schools in England Healthier eating in schools drives better behaviour and attainment, while helping to combat the growing scourge of childhood obesity Bridges’ investment will support the management team to expand to new schools Innovate has committed to become an ‘Impact Organisation’, promoting healthier lifestyles […]
Read moreIP&E Real Estate looks at the growth of institutional investment in the private rented sector and affordable housing, highlighting the recent launch by Bridges Evergreen Holdings of The Ethical Housing Company in Redcar, Teesside. Read the article here.
Read moreIn this Property Week round-table, Simon Ringer, head of the Bridges property funds, joined other sector experts to discuss the outlook for the property sector in 2018, picking out the key challenges and opportunities for investors in the months ahead.
Read moreGrowth Business presents a guide for scale-up businesses on how to access growth capital. The article includes contributions from a variety of businesses that have successfully raised funding from private equity – including Innovate Services, a fast-growing specialist catering company that provides healthy, nutritious school meals. The Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds invested in Innovate earlier […]
Read moreGrowth Business presents a guide for scale-up businesses on how to access growth capital. The article includes contributions from a variety of businesses that have successfully raised funding from private equity – including Innovate Services, a fast-growing specialist catering company that provides healthy, nutritious school meals. The Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds invested in Innovate earlier […]
Read more2017 has been another busy year for Bridges: we closed our largest ever fund, launched pioneering new strategies in both the UK and the US, made a number of exciting new investments across the platform, and even changed our name: to Bridges Fund Management (to better reflect the breadth of our platform). Within the portfolio, […]
Read moreBridges Evergreen Holdings (“Evergreen”) is delighted to announce the launch of The Ethical Housing Company (“EHC”), an ambitious new property venture with a mission to create a portfolio of well-maintained, affordable homes for rent in Teesside. The Ethical Housing Company (ethicalhousing.co.uk) will acquire suitable 1-3-bedroom properties in the region, focusing initially on Redcar, Cleveland and […]
Read moreShaw is one of the UK’s leading providers of residential and nursing care for the elderly, helping to address the urgent under-supply of quality provision. It is one of the ten biggest employee-owned businesses in the UK, with over 3,500 employees. Bridges, which has a long track record in the care sector, is investing £10m […]
Read moreThe Greater Manchester Homes Partnership – supported by the Bridges Social Impact Bond Fund and championed by mayor Andy Burnham – is a pioneering public-private sector collaboration to tackle rough sleeping across Greater Manchester. The £1.8m outcomes contract represents the largest Government commitment to any homelessness programme outside London. Read the Guardian’s take on it […]
Read moreA 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 moreOur Spanish portfolio company Viva Gym and Portugal’s Fitness Hut, two of Europe’s leading low-cost gym groups, are joining forces Together they will constitute the largest low-cost gym group in Iberia, with almost 200,000 members and revenues of more than €50m The combined group will focus on driving better access to affordable health and fitness, […]
Read moreOur Spanish portfolio company Viva Gym has joined forces with Portugal’s Fitness Hut to create the largest low-cost gym group in Iberia, with almost 200,000 members and revenues of more than €50m. Real Deals covers the deal here.
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