Toby Eccles

Toby co-founded Social Finance in 2007. Having led teams to deliver some of Social Finance’s most pioneering work, including the world’s first Social Impact Bond, Toby’s focus now is developing and building out new areas of impact 

Toby developed the social impact bond model, from initial concept to the first implementation at Peterborough prison; the first local authority social impact bond in Essex focused on children in care; designed the Social Outcomes Fund for the Cabinet Office, the first centrally pooled fund for impact bonds; catalysed development impact bonds in partnership with the Center for Global Development; and worked with the Inter-American Development Bank on impact bond strategies for Chile, Mexico and Brazil. 

Toby supported the development of our data and digital capacity whilst also working on several initiatives including a focus on community entrepreneurship, race equity and how government can more effectively manage markets. 

In 2017 he was given an OBE for services to social investment.