Changing through doing: funding a better system for care workers
Exploring how our capabilities and funding could speed up the transition to a more just care system, with workers at its heart.
Care
Denise Holle
Head of Social Investment
Denise leads JRF’s £20m Social Investment programme. Prior to joining JRF in 2020, Denise served as Interim Portfolio Director at Big Society Capital. In her previous social investment roles at Numbers for Good and the Breakthrough venture philanthropy fund, she supported social enterprises across the UK in sectors including health, employment and homelessness with funding, as well as business and financial advice. Before moving into the social investment sector, Denise completed her MBA degree and CFA charter and worked for nearly 15 years as a financial institutions specialist at the World Bank and Merrill Lynch.
Contact
Email: Denise.Holle@jrf.org.uk
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Growing a model to solve shortage of temporary housing
Social investment helped Resonance to build on the success of the National Homelessness Property Fund 1 and its pilot programme, to provide an effective solution to homelessness.
Deep poverty and destitution
Housing
Driving racial equity in social investment
Pathway Fund uses social investment to support their work giving Black and Ethnically Minoritised-led organisations better access to finance so they can make greater social impact.
Race and ethnicity
Helping people access the benefits and support they need
Social investment enabled Lightning Reach to help more people access benefits and discretionary support schemes.
Social security
Cost of living
Providing affordable, ethical credit to purchase essential goods
Social investment helped Fair for You give low-income households affordable credit for white goods, furniture and other essentials.
Savings, debt and assets
Cost of living
Social investment and innovation tackling the poverty premium
People in poverty or on low incomes pay more for the same goods and services than people who are better off financially; the Fair By Design fund aims to address this.
Cost of living
Investing in a model that values our carers
Social investment is helping BelleVie's model of home care services empower more care workers to provide outstanding support across the UK.
Work
Care
It’s vital social investors promote Living Wage in cost of living crisis
The escalating cost of living crisis led us to consider what more we can do to help alleviate the immediate need. One action that stands out is promoting the real Living Wage among our investees and the wider social enterprise and impact investment sector.
Cost of living
Work