Supporting the development of #sme growth, #health and #AI

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) is an independent global steering group catalyzing impact investment and entrepreneurship to benefit people and planet. The GSG has a movement of 35 countries with National Advisory Boards, another 35 countries in the process, and a central team supporting development, policy initiatives, and innovation to achieve radical change towards impact economies and achievement of the SDGs and Net Zero. It is currently focused on driving for impact transparency and mobilising capital where it is needed most, alongside building impact practice across additional National Advisory Board with more capability and influence.

Advisory support to the Impact Licensing Initiative i intellectual property, impact licensing, innovation.

Developing venture philanthropy globally, supporting regional venture philanthropy networks

Big Society Capital is the UK’s independent wholesale social impact investor, set up to help grow social investment in the UK. Its mission is to improve people’s lives by connecting investment with the social enterprises and charities that make positive change in society. WIth its coinvestors, BSC has made £2bn available for the social sector, with £1.2bn already taken up, financing over 1200 frontline organisations. BSC invests for deep and lasting positive social impact in the UK, targeting positive financial returns to build a sustainable social impact investment market. It invests in best-in-class social impact investment managers and diversify across multiple asset classes in private markets with reduced correlation to mainstream. BSC provides a full range of social impact investment models, including both flexible capital and investment to break through in social issues that are underserved or in new areas. Current efforts are focused on homes for people in need, underserved places, and early action to prevent harm. BSC welcomes interest from coinvestors and development partners, and offers a diagnostic and navigation tool for social enterprises and charities at goodfinance.org.uk

The UK side of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group. Chairing a Global Steering Group working party on wholesale social impact investors. Also chairing a UK group on the value and position of social investment in an era of institutional impact investment funds.

Delivering partnership solutions to major challenges in health and health care. UCLPartners is one of five accredited academic health science systems in the UK. Its purpose is to translate cutting edge research and innovation into measurable health gain for patients and populations – in London, across the UK, and globally.

UnLtd is the foundation for social entrepreneurs. It's job is is to reach out and unleash the energies of enterprising people who do good.. UnLtd offers a unique and individually tailored package of cash, development support and networking, supporting around 1,000 start up social entrepreneurs each year in the world's largest and most diverse programme of its kind. UnLtd's strategy is to help build an ecosystem for social entrepreneurs which makes it easy for people to start up a new social venture and thrive. It's ambition is that wherever you are, whatever kind of social venture you are creating, good quality support will be available and accessible for you - taking social entrepreneurship into the mainstream.UnLtd is incubating the Global Social Entrepreneurship Network, a shared learning network for similar social entrepreneur support agencies around the world, currently with members covering over 50 countries.

FSE Management Services is the contract delivery arm of UnLtd, the foundation for social entrepreneurs

developing courageous leadership for social value

Advising the G8 taskforce and other national groups on the experience of the UK social investment market, and working with colleagues from 5 countries on approaches to "profit with purpose" enterprises

Founding trustee of the Local Trust, the agent of the Big Local Trust. BLT is a £200m 10 year programme to build capacity and capability in the 150 most disadvantaged areas in England, funded by the Big Lottery Foundation.

The aim of this Review is to examine the VCSE’s sector’s needs around attracting and developing a skilled workforce and leadership and to make recommendations for how these needs can be met moving forwards.

Advisory body on third sector and social enterprise to the UK Government's Office of the Third Sector

UnLtdWorld is an online platform that connects social entrepreneurs and empowers the way information is exchanged within the social entrepreneurship market. It provides social entrepreneurs with indispensible connections, information and insight.UnLtd sold UnLtdWorld to the Guardian Media Group in 2011, and it is now being integrated into their social enterprise and other professional networks.

Policy advocacy and service provision for people affected by severe mental illness in the UK

Member of the regulatory body for medicines and healthcare devices in the UK. The Commissioners role included acting as the final appeal body for licensing on medicines. Merged in to the Commission on Human Medicines.

Safe housing with support for people affected by HIV who had been made homeless and lost jobs through sharing their status.

Housing Assistant, Team Manager, Specialist Housing Lead

Creating a refuge for LGBTQ young people who had been pushed out of home and pushed out of other social support

Crisis intervention counselling to troubled teenagers

Crisis counselling for the locality in a pioneering project

Crisis intervention counselling