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)
We launched IPS Grow to scale an evidence-based employment support model across England
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.
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.
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Macmillan Cancer Support and Social Finance, with the Strategy Unit, announce the Trailblazer programme. Up to six sites will be prepared for rapid social investment – supporting local systems to redesign community health and care services around people’s wider needs.
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.
Three practical recommendations in response to the government’s Every Child Achieving and Thriving white paper and SEND reform proposals, from a coalition of organisations led by Social Finance with support from Wates Family Enterprise Trust.
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.
We’ve mobilised > £6.5 million in philanthropic funding to support > 220 innovators to launch > 30 digital tools, driving service transformation in health and social care
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System change is about looking at the entire system, understanding how different stakeholders interact, and identifying opportunities for change.
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Our team includes economists, financial analysts, policy experts, data analysts, social scientists, former frontline practitioners, and specialists in Human Centred Design, engineering and analytics.
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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