Our Funds & Projects

Our Corporate Social Venturing Programme develops early stage social businesses through investment, business support and cross-sector partnerships. To date, more than 100 corporate mentors have been involved and more than 40 social businesses have benefited from the programme.

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Our first Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF I) launched in 2010, and is now fully committed having invested over £8 million into 21 social enterprises. Its successor Fund, SEIF II, currently supports ambitious social enterprises and charities with sustainable business models looking to grow and extend their social impact. The Fund has £22.5 million available to invest and offers repayable finance of between £250,000 and £3 million for growth, working capital and capital expenditure purposes.

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Our Outcomes Investment Fund (OIF) provides finance to charities and social enterprises delivering payment-by-results contracts into the public sector, a growing source of revenue for many social sector organisations. The OIF investment terms are aligned with the contract being financed, including flexible repayment profiles and a variable financial return linked to the success of the contract. BII is an experienced outcomes-based investor and provides support to investees before and after a contract launches.

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We believe that everyone should be treated equally, no matter if you are a tenant or a homeowner. Working with Experian to tackle digital and financial exclusion faced by social housing tenants, The Rental Exchange has the potential to improve the credit score of 3.4 million tenants across the UK by taking social housing tenants’ rental payment experience into consideration when assessing their credit histories. To date, 1.5 million tenants have been engaged.

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