towards the cost of engaging a PR agency to amplify advocacy work, aiming to secure policy ownership within the government and propose an advocacy expansion fund.

To grow social investment approaches within NHS Charities and Integrated Care Boards.?

Outcomes Based Approach to Care: Dementia and Older People’s Complex Needs

Towards research and innovation project

Social Finance is a not for profit organisation that partners with the government, the social sector and the financial community to find better ways of tackling social problems in the UK and beyond. This grant is a two-year extension of support for the Impact Incubator, a collaboration between Social Finance and UK charitable foundations that seeks to drive systemic change on social issues.

Development grant to look into fund for key worker housing

Time to Act Programme: With Gloucester and Cheshire West and Chester local authorities, we are building a deep understanding of ‘who’ is being excluded in education (covis-19)

NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.

over one year as continuation funding towards Phase 3 of the Improving Quality of Life for Older People funder collaboration, partnering with the John Ellerman Foundation, the Rayne Foundation and the Dulverton Trust

Grant to Social Finance

over two years as continuation funding towards the running costs of the Impact Incubator, intended to help achieve a step change in responses to and outcomes around entrenched social issues

To develop a blueprint for a national response to perpetrators and to build a coalition around the recommendations. The grant was split between the three organisations that make up the Drive Partnership (SafeLives, Respect and Social Finance) to develop a blueprint for a national response to perpetrators and to build a coalition around the recommendations

‘The Link’ will enable GPs and other primary care professionals to support employed people with musculoskeletal and mental health problems back to work after a period of sickness, absence, injury or disability in a productive and beneficial way. It will operate a two-site proof of concept with highly-engaged GP practices. Each site will employ an Allied Health Professional (AHP), such as an Occupational Therapist or physiotherapist, within the primary care team, who will provide vocational support for individuals referred by GPs. In addition, one site will include an element of GP time to authorise Fit Notes and provide additional clinical support. The other site will include a link worker to provide additional non-clinical support to people who have a health condition but whose challenges in work stem from practical issues such as debt, housing, or family problems.

What Works Centre for Children's Social Care Incubator programme grant to Social Finance Grant Ref AR00264

£25,000 towards the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights' legal aid clinic at HMP Huntercombe. This clinic will deliver legal advice to foreign national prisoners through private law firm Turpin & Miller who will supervise graduate law and criminology students.

Expected outputs will include:Preparation, design, and convening of series of meetings, culminating in a final roundtable bringing together all stakeholders;Interviews with central and local government officials;Continued engagement with practitioners who attended the first three roundtables, to ensure their feedback is included in the final proposed model;Outreach to investors;Development of initial cost-benefit analysis for the purpose of testing indicative viability of the case to be made to central and local government;Completion of design recommendations, including recommendations for structure, measurement, operational approach (processes, structuring, requirements), and practical next steps to take the fund forward to launch, including an engagement plan for different stakeholders (to be refined based on roundtable attendee feedback).

over one year as part of a collaboration between four funders to support the Impact Incubator to scope and identify two models which will significantly improve the lives of vulnerable older people in the UK

The Link will enable GPs and other primary care professionals to support employed people with musculoskeletal and mental health problems back to work after a period of sickness, absence, injury or disability in a productive and beneficial way. It will operate a two-site proof of concept with highly-engaged GP practices. Each site will employ an Allied Health Professional (AHP), such as an Occupational Therapist or physiotherapist, within the primary care team, who will provide vocational support for individuals referred by GPs. In addition, one site will include an element of GP time to authorise Fit Notes and provide additional clinical support. The other site will include a link worker to provide additional non-clinical support to people who have a health condition but whose challenges in work stem from practical issues such as debt, housing, or family problems.

In collaboration with other funders, a grant towards costs of a project to develop a shared vision for change between multiple partners and identify two potential ‘concepts’ to be developed into practical interventions to bring about wider systemic change that will benefit older people who are most likely to be disadvantaged. The project will provide insights and learning, and strengthen relationships across and between sectors.

£50,000 over 2 years (£25,000; £25,000) towards core costs. Merseyside Law Centre provides legal advice and assistance to welfare benefits and housing for migrants and those excluded as a result of unemployment. They also provide representation in tribunals.

For the development and launch of Reset: Communities and Refugees, a charity created to encourage and scale community sponsorship of refugees in the UK refugees build a home and life in the UK

£50,000 towards the costs of establishing a capacity building organisation to support UK community sponsorship of refugees. This grant is to enable Social Finance and Good Faith Partnership to establish a new organisation and advisory group to take forward the work to develop community sponsorship in the UK.

The Impact Incubator is a partnership between leading six UK philanthropic foundations and Social Finance to develop new approaches to challenging social issues in the UK. The Impact Incubator was set up in 2014 to develop a different approach to improve the lives of vulnerable people in the UK. It collaborates with expert partners to develop systemic responses to some of society’s most challenging issues.

Tt complete feasability and development work on devising a social impact bond financed project

£15,000 towards a training project for those participating in the community sponsorship programme . The aim is to ensure participants are appropriately trained and equipped to provide support for resettled refugees. This grant is towards developing a training and support strategy for community sponsors and to pilot a training event.

Integrates employment support with mental health treatments - Individual Placement & Support (IPS)

To build the capacity of communities to support refugees through Community Sponsorship (CS) and to enable more community groups to access the CS scheme.

To fund an Impact Incubator that will build collaborations to develop systems-changing models to entrenched social problems.

over three years as continuation funding towards the running costs of the Impact Incubator, which aims to achieve a step change in outcomes for a range of entrenched social issues

Funding for the development of a Social Impact Bond to reduce loneliness and isolation.

For developmental work on addressing ethnic inequalities in the mental health system

Social Finance (Shared Lives in Lambeth)

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Funding for the development of a Social Impact Bond to reduce loneliness and isolation.

Funding for the development of a Social Impact Bond to reduce loneliness and isolation.

Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund programme grant to Social Finance Grant Ref AC00373

over two years towards the development and running costs of the Impact Incubator, which aims to develop new approaches to a range of challenging social issues, alongside potential sustainable funding models

Commissioning Better Outcomes Support Contract BIG001-0401_x000B__x000B_This is an Arrangement, Not a Funding Request._x000B__x000B_This is a 2 year 3 month support contract for the joint outcome funds including CBO. The services will include awareness and outreach EOI support and needs analysis and expert support division. Primarily to public sector commissioning bodies and other VCSE organisation as approriate._x000B_Location is England wide_x000B__x000B_

Investor Advisory Services

This project is aimed at developing the Social Impact Bond (SIB) funding model to address a number of social issues. This will include detailed feasibility work to build out investment models in the areas including (but not limited to): health, social care, elderly care, education, cared for children, criminal justice, social housing and workforce returners. A range of pilots will engage stakeholders in the development of SIBs and disseminating best practices to enable rapid replication.

This project is to establish the success of the Social Impact Bond in reducing reoffending rates for residents of HMP Peterborough. The project will raise money from investors to fund housing support, employment and debt advice, to support beneficiaries in prison and for an average of four months after release. If these interventions are successful, BIG will provide part payment based on these successful outcomes, which will be repaid to investors with rewards relative to the success of the outcomes. _x000B_