25.06.11: PEF @ Sunday Times Festival

On Saturday 25th June Private Equity Foundation Trustee Charlie Green led a seminar at the Sunday Times Festival of Education at Wellington College on Social Investment for children and schools.

The Private Equity Foundation is committed to raising outcomes for disadvantaged young people through investing in the voluntary sector. Social investment offers a real opportunity to do this through leveraging significant levels of new private finance for successful social outcomes. Through funding the most effective interventions government will save money both today and in the future. Social investment will unlock huge untapped sources of funding and provide the best voluntary providers with a sustainable source of income. This ensures that the government will set the outcomes it wants to achieve, new sources fo funding will fund delivery and the experts in the voluntary sector will deliver.

Over the past five years the Private Equity Foundation has come to understand the issues faced by young people. We work with charities to ensure they are efficient, sustainable and scalable delivering the very best outcomes but our expertise does not stop there. Social investment is reliant on both an understanding of charities and their interventions and a sound understanding of and network to the financial markets to ensure that society supports those who need that extra help and investment.

Working together social investment is a way forward to guarantee better results for those young people most at risk and better funding for best in class interventions.

For further information on Social Investment for children and schools please contact Ruth Shinoda: ruth@privateequityfoundation.org