Bridges Fund Management Ltd.

Thank you to Impact-Investor.com for a great conversation about our Inclusive Growth strategy – a doubling-down on our longstanding commitment to UK social impact businesses. Bridges partner Emma Thorne, who will be leading Inclusive Growth, spoke to Paula Garrido about the need for dedicated #socialimpact capital, and about our three areas of focus: physical health, mental health and economic inclusion. Have a read 👉 https://lnkd.in/eqcPSN7C #inclusivegrowth #impactinvesting

📢 New job opportunity alert! 📢 Do you want a rewarding career creating positive social impact globally? We're looking for a **Senior Impact Analyst (international projects)** who will support our team to deliver better #education #outcomes in multiple geographies – including in Sierra Leone and Ghana. This role involves data analysis, process improvement, impact monitoring and evaluation, and collaborative working with stakeholders including Government partners, among other responsibilities. It also includes some international travel to visit projects on the ground. Interested? For more info, follow this link 👇 https://lnkd.in/eZfEr3tf Applications close 9th December 2024. #job #opportunity #career #impact #socialimpact P.S. Did we mention we’re also #hiring for a **Social Investment Associate**? 👉 https://lnkd.in/eZfEr3tf (image: Unsplash/ Annie Spratt)

🏆 Huge congratulations to the team at Waymap – winner of this year’s *Bridges Positive Impact Award* at the Growing Business Awards 2024. 👏👏👏 Waymap uses world-leading, step-based location technology to provide the world’s most precise indoor, outdoor and underground navigation app. Waymap was founded by Dr Tom Pey PHD MA FCMA FRSA DBS, whose lived-experience of sight loss fuelled his idea to create a navigation app which truly works for everyone. Based on decades of research, Waymap’s cutting edge product (which doesn't require signal) is transforming the lives of blind and disabled users – and making everyone else’s easier to navigate too! Already improving accessibility in 11+ cities in 130+ locations, with 32m+ square feet mapped, we can’t wait to see Waymap continue to scale… Congratulations! #GrowingBusinessAwards #positiveimpact #accessibility #inclusive #growthbusiness

Congratulations to all ten finalists of the *Bridges Positive Impact Award* at the Growing Business Awards 2024!   This year’s cohort has seen some hugely impressive organisations working to create important #positivechange for people and/or the planet – across food services, climate technology, real estate development, residential care, waste reduction, energy services and more…   Our award celebrates enterprises delivering smart #solutions to today’s challenges – we can’t wait to reveal the winner at this evening's ceremony. Good luck to all shortlisted!   Get to know the 2024 finalists below.⬇️ #GrowingBusinessAwards #positiveimpact #peopleandplanet #growthbusiness #entrepreneurs 51toCarbonZero Company Shop Group Fika Catering loveelectric OakTree Power Soil Association Superior Care Midlands Ltd Reflex Packaging Solutions Thoth London Waymap Kyle Bentwood

The Oxford Impact Investing Programme was the first global impact investing executive education programme in the world and was developed in 2013, highlighting the UK’s expertise in developing high-calibre impact talent. To find out more, read the UK - A Centre of Excellence in Impact Investing: https://bit.ly/3UlKAZ0 Michele Giddens, Bridges Fund Management Ltd. #impactinvesting

Last week with Conscious Coliving and Dr Penny we hosted our first in-person workshop for the Why Coliving? campaign we launched this fall 🍂 Alongside key UK coliving players including urbanbubble, VervLife, HUB, Bridges Fund Management Ltd., Assael Architecture and The Furniture Practice we have launched a collaborative campaign that promotes coliving homes to #localauthorities, national #policymakers and #investors. The campaign is also supported and endorsed by the British Property Federation, CBRE and Cascade and will give local authorities, policymakers and investors the opportunity to better understand coliving and how it can meet their housing agendas. Ultimately, the campaign aims to encourage support for the sector, increase investment and ultimately deliver much needed rental homes 🏘 Find out more in the comments below and reach out if you're interested to join the research and/or core working group! 📩 #coliving #sharedliving #pbsl #housing #policy

Big congrats to the team at Storetec Services Limited for scooping TWO awards at the Document Manager Magazine & Awards 2024! 👏 🏆 BPO/ Outsourcing/ Bureau Business of the Year 🏆 Workflow/BPM Product of the Year

Why Co-living? 👀 Conscious Coliving has recently launched a new campaign which Bridges is delighted to be involved in...   Alongside key co-living partners urbanbubble, VervLife, HUB, Assael Architecture and The Furniture Practice, the Why Co-living? campaign will spotlight the opportunities of co-living homes to local authorities, national policymakers and investors – helping them to better understand the co-living model and how it can meet their housing agendas.   👉 With increased support and investment, the sector will be able to deliver much needed rental homes across the country.   Backed by evidence-based reports, multimedia content and industry events, the campaign is also endorsed by the British Property Federation, CBRE and Cascade.   Stay tuned for more updates! Read more about the campaign here➡️ https://lnkd.in/eX7TjUr5 And for Bridges’ take on the case for co-living, visit➡️ https://lnkd.in/eAHb9iz4 #coliving #whycoliving #realestate #housing

🏡 Where children grow up matters. Quality, affordable housing is essential for fostering life-long health, learning, and meaningful connections between children and their caregivers. We are really proud that The Family Voices Toolkit, developed by ZCD ARCHITECTS LTD is now available for everyone to use. The toolkit was created to be a resource for investors, developers, city leaders and community engagement specialists to integrate babies, toddlers and caregivers' needs into urban projects. We are deeply thankful to our partners from our Mission-Related Investing Portfolio Bridges Fund Management Ltd. PATRIZIA SE Jonathan Rose Companies Ardstone Fabrix HUB The Earls Court Development Company who worked with us to pilot the toolkit and shared their learnings. Together we have built a tool that truly connects people and builds trust with local communities. Dinah Bornat, Director at ZCD Architects, led the toolkit's pilot sessions, shared that, “Parents’ voices matter, and when we listen, we understand what they need – safe play spaces for their children and places to connect with neighbours.” On 12 November, 80+ impact investors, developers, city leaders, architects, and enablers joined us at the launch event held at The Earls Court Development Company, all eager to enhance social impact and support inclusive communities. As Irina Ivan-van der Kwaak, the Van Leer Foundation’s Representative for Mission Related Investing noted, “By listening to communities, across the end-to-end development process, we can more authentically understand their priorities and identify meaningful ways of supporting them. This is what social value is all about.” Now available online: https://lnkd.in/gy5WpCrY The toolkit offers valuable insights and practical tools for engaging parents and caregivers in housing design. From session frameworks and creative materials to practical considerations like scheduling and childcare, it equips stakeholders to meaningfully involve families of young children to build better homes and neighbourhoods. Rushda Majeed Michael Feigelson Annemarie Poorterman Savvas Verdis Rebekah Paczek Marleen Bekkers Lori Stanlick Dawn Mottram Jonathan F.P. Rose Ivan Rodriguez Rob Heasman Hannah Rothschild Neil van der Meer Arushi Khandelwal Clive N. Debbie Whitfield Anna Shiel Sarah Teacher Mark Hall Christine Murray Georgina Makin-Smith Harriet Sutton Nabiha Qadir Laurence Neal Isabel Hayes (nee Scruby) Sam Sternin Video by Milo Cumpstey #FamilyVoicesToolkit #AffordableHousing #EarlyChildhood #SocialImpact #ESG #UrbanDevelopment

"A child’s environment plays a significant role in shaping their future opportunities." 🪁🏡 Lori Stanlick, Jonathan Rose Companies Bridges is delighted to have collaborated with Van Leer Foundation, ZCD ARCHITECTS LTD and other key partners in the development, piloting, and launch of the #FamilyVoicesToolkit. The toolkit is an important resource that supports housing stakeholders (investors, developers, city leaders etc.) to engage meaningfully with local families, in order to understand and integrate their needs into the delivery of urban residential and community projects. It offers valuable insights and a practical framework for engaging parents and caregivers in housing and neighbourhood design – giving an opportunity for their voices to be heard, so that developments can reflect their priorities authentically. We’re so excited to see this go live and hope many others adopt these tools in their development processes going forward. Watch for more info➡️ https://lnkd.in/eAgb2ETM Explore the toolkit here➡️ https://lnkd.in/gy5WpCrY ZCD ARCHITECTS LTD Van Leer Foundation Jonathan Rose Companies PATRIZIA SE The Earls Court Development Company HUB Ardstone Fabrix Ivan Rodriguez Celia Harrison #FamilyVoicesToolkit #AffordableHousing #EarlyChildhood #SocialImpact #ESG #UrbanDevelopment #Impact #RealEstate