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Services

  1. Apply to the Life Chances Fund

    An £80 million fund to provide payment-by-results contracts for locally developed projects by socially minded investors.

  2. Local charities and community groups match fund: application and guidance

    Apply to deliver match funding to encourage donations to local charities and community groups.

  3. Social Outcomes Fund: how to apply

    Guidance and form for submitting an expression of interest to the Social Outcomes Fund

  4. Social investment tax relief: accreditation for SIB contractors

    Guidance and an application form for the accreditation scheme for social impact bond contractors eligible for social investment tax relief.

  5. Mutuals Interim Support Fund

    A grant scheme to support organisations to consider, develop or grow a public service mutual.

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Social Impact Bonds
    • Detailed guide
    • Cabinet Office, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, and Office for Civil Society
  2. Introduction to Public Service Mutuals
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Office for Civil Society
  3. Youth Engagement Fund: prospectus
    • Guidance
    • Cabinet Office
  4. Social investment and social entrepreneurship in the UK
    • Guidance
    • Cabinet Office and Department for International Trade
  5. Co-mingling funds: structure template
    • Guidance
    • Cabinet Office
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News and communications

News story

LLWR donation will help save lives in country areas

Low Level Waste Repository Ltd

  1. This is Me Cumbria
    • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd
    • News story
  2. Angela recognised for helping to empower women in the North
    • Sellafield Ltd
    • News story
  3. Lessons start at new £30m education campus
    • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd
    • News story
  4. Full STEAM ahead for new Cumbria education trail
    • Sellafield Ltd
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Supporting Papers - Growing a Culture of Social Impact Investing
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and HM Treasury
    • Research
  2. Social enterprise: market trends 2017
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, and Office for Civil Society
    • Research
  3. Investment Readiness Programme data
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Office for Civil Society
    • Research
  4. Advisory panel to mission-led business review: final report
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Office for Civil Society
    • Independent report
  5. Growing the social investment market: update on SIFI social investment
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Mission-led business review: call for evidence
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Office for Civil Society
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 08 July 2016
  2. A connected society: a strategy for tackling loneliness
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, and Office for Civil Society
    • Policy paper
  3. West Cumbria Works: a socio-economic investment project
    • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd
    • Case study
  4. Dormant Assets Commission: final report to government
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Independent Dormant Assets Commission , and Office for Civil Society
    • Policy paper
  5. Understanding mission-led businesses: terms of reference
    • Cabinet Office, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, and Office for Civil Society
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Socio-economic report 2017 to 2018
    • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Radioactive Waste Management, Sellafield Ltd, Dounreay , Magnox Ltd, and Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
    • Corporate report
  2. Local Sustainability Fund applicants: shortlist
    • Cabinet Office
    • Transparency
  3. Achieving social impact at scale
    • Cabinet Office
    • Corporate report
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