📋About
Youth Investment Fund (YIF — DCMS-commissioned, expanding youth spaces in underserved communities); Reach Fund (readiness grants for organisations accessing social investment); Enterprise Development Programme (EDP — trading capacity building with 6 sector-specific partners); Recovery Loan Fund; Resilient Communities Fund; Thrive Together; Flexible Finance; Diversity Forum; Social Investment Forum; Future Economy Alliance; data-led decision-making tools
Custom geography from upload: England
📊Key Metrics
£81,592,894 disbursed between November 2022 and March 2024; Youth Investment Fund (YIF) — largest fund SIB has ever managed — expanding youth provision in England's most underserved communities
Key Metric 1
Reach Fund supported 170 organisations with £1,922,475 in readiness grants (Dec 2022 – Mar 2024); 33 social investors working with Reach Fund; Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) has supported 330+ organisations with £8m+ in grants since 2018
Key Metric 2
Diversity dashboard covers 11 funds; 46% of successful BAME-led and environmental EDP round organisations in most deprived 20% of areas; team doubled in size with YIF addition
Key Metric 3
✅Key Outcomes
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YIF expanded youth service provision in communities with highest levels of disadvantage; EDP organisations in Round 4 include women's centre in West Midlands and community energy organisation in London; CEO changes and board renewal with thanks to Chair Hazel Blears (8-year term ending)
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Diversity dashboard published with Access, Power to Change and other partners; lowered turnover thresholds for BAME-led organisations in some funds to improve access; data collection expanded to include socioeconomic background questions among staff
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In 2018-19, SIB disbursed just under £5m; in this period, £81m+ — showing scale of growth; greatest number of external private investors in SIB investment funds since establishment; new strategy April 2022–March 2025; vision of fairer, more equal society