2. Who are Numbers4Good?
Our vision
To bridge the worlds of finance and social and environmental
impact.
Our work
We create financial solutions, and advise organisation, tackling
social and environmental challenges.
Our activities
N4G is a reputed provider of finance and investment readiness
support, e.g. for Big Potential programmes and has structured
Social Impact Bonds
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3. Numbers4Good overview
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12 team members with decades of experience in
investment, business strategy, social enterprise and policy.
30 clients across the country ranging from small charities
to housing associations and multinationals.
£3.9m investment raised, an additional £5.4m committed,
two social impact bonds launched and running a £1.2m
health-tech accelerator.
Three years ‘organic’ growth so far…
4. What we’ll cover…
• What is social investment?
• What are social impact bonds?
• How do they work?
• Considerations for a rare diseases SIB
• About Numbers4Good
• Q&A
5. What is social investment?
“Using investment to consciously tackle
society’s challenges – and to make a
financial return.”
6. Investment is one form of funding for social
enterprises and charities
Social Enterprise /
Charity
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Philanthropy
Investors
Customers
Funding Source Funding Type Recipient
Grants
Revenue
Repayable
finance*
(*) Note: Includes debt, equity and quasi-equity however equity products can not be deployed for charities
• ‘Traditional’ investors seek a financial return
• ‘Social’ investors target both a financial and a specific social or environmental return
7. A wide range of social investment products
are available…
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Private
Capital
Investors
Market Access
Ventures
Products
Frontline Distribution
Wholesale
bank
Foundations Government
Market Infrastructure Providers
Social Stock Exchange | Ethex
Market Intermediaries |
Angel networks | Wealth / Asset
Managers
Social Impact Bonds | Charity Bonds | Loans
Equity/Quasi-Equity Products | Retail Products
Grants
Social Investment Financial Intermediaries
Bridges Ventures | SIB Group | Big Issue Invest | Fair Finance |
Numbers4Good
Social Enterprises | Co-operatives | Charities | Community Groups
8. …and social impact bonds are at the riskier
end of the spectrum
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Debt
Equity
Quasi -
equity
9. Social investment timeline
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(*) Source: UK National Advisory Board to the Social Impact Investment Taskforce ‘Building a Social
Impact Investment Market The UK Experience’
10. What is a social impact
bond?
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are a form of payment by results
contract designed to improve public service delivery
They improve the social outcomes of publicly funded services by
making funding conditional on achieving results
Investors pay for the project at the start, and then receive
repayments based on the results achieved by the project
No success = no repayment
11. SIBs in operation
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2010
1st SIB launch
Working with ex-
offenders to keep
them from returning to
prison
Showed to reduce
reoffending by 8.4%
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2015
30 are in operation
across the UK
Tackling issues like
homelessness, youth
unemployment, family
breakdown
Commissioned by
local and central
government
100s more in
development across
the country
Source: Emma Tompkins
12. Social impact bonds have grown rapidly in
recent years
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5
10
15
20
25
2010 2012 2015
Cumulative outstanding UK SIBs SIBs by social sector
Source: Brookings report
13. Approach for findacure
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Universe of rare
diseases
Isolate 10 diseases
with criteria on next
page
Raise investment,
commission project
Undertake proof of
concept clinical
trials
No of successful
outcomes x
commissioner
payments =
investor return
Virtuous circle for future
development
14. Delicate balancing act to select a rare
disease portfolio for SIB
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Probability of
successful
outcomes
Sufficient beneficiaries to
impact
Very rare disease
Ease of repurposing
Challenging disease for
repurposing
Strength of existing studies
lower cost
Few studies – higher cost
Potentially fundable using
lower risk capital?
Unlikely to generate
sufficient outcome
payments
15. SIB structures vary but here’s what the
Findacure SIB may look like
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NHS England
Investor (s)
Partnership vehicle
Find a Cure
Payment By Result
100% ownership via equity
injection (or equity-debt
capital mix)
Fixed terms (*)
(*) Could build financial incentives for outperformance
Intervention
Service / Relation
Contractual relationship
Flow of Funds
Outcomes
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3
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2 Capital passed to service
provider
3 Outcomes payments made
4 Equity return (and interest
and capital loan repayment)
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