Impact Incubator (360G-CR-2649066)

The Impact Incubator is a collaboration between a number of UK grant making foundations and the organisation, Social Finance, to launch innovative responses to specific social challenges. A specific challenge is identified, for example repeat attacks on women facing domestic abuse, and an initiative is developed to try new approaches. An example of a previous initiative in the incubator was to stop asking “why don’t they leave?” of the women facing abuse and start asking ‘why don’t they stop’ of the men committing it. This has led to trialling some new approaches involving a whole range of players including probation services, the police and the voluntary sector. Funding from Comic Relief will contribute to the next phase of the Impact Incubator and a process will commence of identifying disruptive to a number of critical social issues which are stubbornly resistant to change and which are of relevance to Comic Relief’s work. These include mental health, resettlement of refugees and asylum seekers, and care leavers.