The project contributes to the salary of a Pipeline Development Lead, whose role will be to build the pipeline of potential investees for diverse-led ventures.

To enable Big Issue Invest to carry out a review of its financial modelling and redesign its operations.

Big Issue Invest will develop a fund that will provide £500,000 seed finance and business support to ten early stage social enterprises. The enterprises selected and guided by mentors from IT-based companies will provide educational phone applications and courses to benefit 5,000 disadvantaged young people. An independent evaluation will test out if this model can be replicated as a self-sustaining social investment in the IT and other business sectors. _x000B_