The Drive Partnership’s flagship perpetrator intervention is expanding across England and Wales. The Drive Project is our evidence-led response that makes women & children safer.
For Social Finance, delivering lasting change in public services isn’t just about building better technology. It’s about creating the conditions in which better technology can spread.
With lived-experience experts we built robust evidence that independent, non-statutory advocacy for people with learning disabilities and autistic people delivers meaningful change.
What we learned from three years of collaboration across the housing sector to develop the Shared Ownership Code
Shaping health and care services that respond to local needs through the Neighbourhood Transformation Fund (NTF)
Bringing people, ideas, and money together, we tackle society’s toughest challenges and help improve lives. Working with governments, charities, investors, and communities, our goal is to turn bold ideas into real solutions that make systems fairer and which are shaped around what matters most to people. We believe finance can be a powerful force for good, driving lasting change through partnership, creativity, and purpose.
There’s plenty of evidence that earlier, more preventative support can improve lives and reduce long-term costs. As Toby Eccles, Social Finance’s co-founder explains, the Orchestrator is our approach to helping local systems turn that knowledge into sustained, practical change.
The Trailblazer programme – led by West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support and Social Finance – was commissioned by the Office for the Impact Economy, Department of Health & Social Care and NHS England, to help bring care close to home and tackle health inequalities.
Social Finance brings global expertise in impact capital, outcomes-based funding and market development, helping governments, philanthropists and investors use capital to achieve better social outcomes. A new report, commissioned by the Institute of Philanthropy, draws on that experience to explore how Hong Kong can build a stronger impact capital market.
Caroline Gadd, our Chief Executive, sets out what a decade of our work in Individual Placement and Support (IPS) has taught Social Finance about combining evidence, empathy and scale. And why the most important question is: what matters to you?
When the Schools White Paper consultation opened, Seth Bolderow, Inclusive Education Collective Lead at Wates Family Enterprise Trust, asked our Associate Director, Shaun Reeve, to bring stakeholders together to develop a shared response. Here, Seth reflects on what made the process successful and why building consensus remains essential to achieving collective impact.
Katy Nex and Angus Kerr from Social Finance and Richard Ball, Head of System Investment at Macmillan Cancer Support, look at the challenges and the achievements of this first year – and the lessons for future NTFs.
Building on our success in delivering the expansion of services connecting health and employment, Social Finance has been selected as the National Support Team for the roll out of WorkWell across England.
Social Finance has demonstrated repeatedly how capital can tackle society’s toughest challenges. But there remains huge, untapped potential for organisations to harness the talent, skills and capital needed to deliver the change that governments cannot make alone. Sir Ronnie Cohen issues a call to arms for the future of our society.
Lela Kogbara, Co-Chair of the Social Finance Board and talks about her journey with IPS Grow and her personal experience of what it means to write off those with poor mental health.
After meeting former Prime Minister Gordon Brown to discuss the Better Futures Fund, our Chief Executive reflects on why the Fund truly matters, and how finance with heart can tackle even the toughest social challenges.
Heather McLean, Director of Community and System Partnerships at Macmillan Cancer Support, shares our latest innovation – Neighbourhood Transformation Funds.
Toby Eccles was part of the team that launched the World’s first Social Impact Bond in 2010. In this article he explains how the Peterborough SIB almost didn’t happen.
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We are not just another organisation working in social investment or social change. We partner with local and national government; charities; commissioners including in the NHS; socially motivated investors; funders and philanthropic organisations. Our partnerships include the people and communities who know what’s not working and what needs to change.
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