Caroline Garkisch

The Social Investment Business

Social Action FundHighlights

• 40 game-changing social action projects in England have received grants ranging from £100,000 to £2 million

• Aim to recruit 458,552 volunteers and 2,551,579 social action participants over the lifetime of the Fund

• Volunteers recruited so far 102,449 • Social action participants so far 1,794,716

Highlights

• 42% social action projects have met or exceeded their projections on the number of volunteers they could recruit so far

• 15% so far have more than doubled their target number of volunteers

• 21% have meet or exceeded their projections on the number of ‘social action participants’ they’d be able to attract

• A further 21% have smashed their targets and more than doubled the number of ‘social action participants’ attracted so far.

Performance

• Consortia where new consortium members are on the stocks and can easily be added, and already have all the infrastructure to set agreements with members and monitor their work

• Large organisations with extensive branch networks for example can easily replicate programmes in new areas

Scaling up: what can work

• Will your project find it challenging to scale up?

Scaling up: challenges

Contact details

www.sibgroup.org.uk

enquiries@sibgroup.org.uk

Tel: 0191 261 5200

Caroline Garkisch

caroline.garkisch@sibgroup.org.uk

Tel: 0207 842 7775