30th May 2018
Growth Business: The essential guide to raising private equity
Growth Business: The essential guide to raising private equity In this guide, Growth Business explains how scale-up businesses can tackle an all-important issue: raising private equity. Hearing directly from a variety of businesses that have raised private equity funds, the article discusses how the UK market has bounced back from Brexit and what the best […]
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5th June 2018
Growth Business: The essential guide to raising private equity
Growth 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 […]
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5th June 2018
Growth Business: The essential guide to raising private equity
Growth 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 […]
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20th December 2017
Bridges’ Annual Impact Report 2017
2017 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, […]
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7th February 2018
The Ethical Housing Company launches to tackle housing need in Teesside
Bridges 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 […]
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16th November 2017
Shaw healthcare targets long-term growth with £10m Bridges Evergreen investment
Shaw 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 […]
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21st November 2017
The Guardian: Hundreds of rough sleepers in Manchester to be offered homes
The 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 […]
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22nd November 2017
Bridges to support £1.8m Rough Sleeping SIB in Greater Manchester
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 […]
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9th January 2018
Bridges-backed Viva Gym acquires Fitness Hut to create Iberian low-cost market leader
Our 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, […]
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9th January 2018
Real Deals: Bridges-backed Viva Gym acquires Fitness Hut
Our 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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16th January 2018
Five London boroughs join forces to help troubled families stay together
Positive 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 […]
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2nd February 2018
In the Press: Positive Families Partnership in The Guardian & City AM
Positive 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 […]
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