Social Business Trust

Social Business Trust Best of business + best of social enterprise = great social impact. We support to grow.

SBT’s mission is to support high growth potential social enterprises to scale-up their impact. We do that by investing cash grants and professional support from our eight corporate partners - Bain & Company, British Gas, Clifford Chance, Credit Suisse, EY, IBM, Permira and Thomson Reuters - in a carefully selected portfolio of social enterprises. Since 2010 we have positively impacted the lives of

one million people, providing £12.3 million worth of cash and in-kind assistance, including 25,000 hours of high-quality business support. OUR PROGRAMMES

We work with established social businesses with revenues of c.£1 million or more that have strong growth potential. Our aim is to help develop a number of social enterprises to national scale or significance. Currently we work with 12 great social enterprises, selected from reviews of over 900, tackling social problems including educational disadvantage and elderly care. A further two social enterprises are in our new SBT Design programme, getting support to create a plan for growth. OUR STORY

Social Business Trust was started in 2010 by Damon Buffini, founding partner of Permira, the global investment fund and Adele Blakebrough MBE, a leading social entrepreneur. They share a belief in the importance of social enterprise in addressing society's problems and in the benefits that working in partnership with business can deliver.

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About Social Business Trust

SBT’s mission is to support high growth potential social enterprises to scale-up their impact. We do that by investing professional support and cash grants from our corporate partners - Bain & Company, Clifford Chance, EY, Getronics, Permira, Permira Debt Managers and Thomson Reuters - in a carefully selected portfolio of social enterprises. Since 2010 we have positively impacted the lives of over 1.9 million people, providing over £18 million worth of cash and in-kind assistance, including 35,000 hours of high-quality business support. OUR PROGRAMMES We work with established social businesses with revenues of c.£1 million or more that have strong growth potential. Our aim is to help develop a number of social enterprises to national scale or significance. Currently we work with 12 great social enterprises, selected from reviews of over 1,000, tackling social problems including educational disadvantage and elderly care. OUR STORY Social Business Trust was started in 2010 by Sir Damon Buffini, founding partner of Permira, the global investment fund and Adele Blakebrough MBE, a leading social entrepreneur. They share a belief in the importance of social enterprise in addressing society's problems and in the benefits that working in partnership with business can deliver.