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Health and Social Care Social Investment Hub
Everything you need to know about social investment in the health and social care sector. Find FAQs, reports & case studies – all in one place.
In 2024 Social Finance partnered with the Connect Fund* to develop a comprehensive resource hub that demystifies social investment in the health and social care sector.
*A £6.3 million fund that the Barrow Cadbury Trust managed in partnership with Access – the Foundation for Social Investment between 2017–2024.
Social investment is a way of funding new or improved interventions to enhance health outcomes and deliver financial benefits. Social investment emphasises rigorous outcome measurement, flexibility, experimentation, and accountability for impact.
Watch this video to hear from a funder, an NHS commissioner and a delivery organisation about their experience of social investment.
Key Resources for Social Investors
Social investment can provide a route for mission focussed organisations who are looking to diversify their funding strategies.
If you are considering becoming a social investor, to help you get started, we’ve put together a guide to power and partnering and have answered some frequently asked questions.
Power and Partnering: A guide for Social Investors
Social investment offers a unique opportunity to create deeper partnerships that dismantle typical power structures to drive and sustain lasting systems change.
To do this right, partners need to actively prioritise rebalancing power and should invest in healthy partnership working.
FAQs: Social Investors
Case Study
Key Resources for Delivery Organisations
Are you a statutory body or a Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) organisation seeking social investment to deliver impact for the communities you serve?
We’ve pulled together some frequently asked questions we hear from service providers considering social investment:
FAQs: Service Delivery Organisations
Is outcomes based funding right for me?
Case Study
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We want to keep adding resources to the Hub to demystify social investment and make the sector more equitable and accessible. If there are existing resources we may not know of or new resources you would like to see here please let us know.
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