Resonance - Twenty Years Of Impact - Report - Page 38
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
In 2015 the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ was implemented by all UN Member States. This agenda was comprised of 17 Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs). Since their adoption in 2015, Resonance’s funds have contributed towards 12 of these 17 goals across a number of our impact themes outlined on page 27.
Here are a few examples of how our work has met with the goals.
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• Resonance has invested in 18 projects
with the impact theme poverty and
disadvantage.
• Our Affordable Homes Rental Fund has
worked with community groups to build
homes rented at affordable rates, often
below 80% of those in the open market
• Our homelessness property funds have
delivered 1,000 safe and affordable homes
with housing partners, housing 2851
people
• Our social investment tax relief funds
focused on investing into social enterprises
that were deliberately working to dismantle
poverty in areas of deprivation
• Our Health & Wellbeing Challenge Fund
has invested £3.8m into 41 innovative
social enterprises working in the health
and wellbeing sector
• Resonance South West SITR Fund
invested into Street Impact Bristol to help
improve prospects for 125 rough sleepers
• Resonance has invested in 118 projects
with the impact theme health, wellbeing
and social care
• Resonance’s homelessness property
funds are award winning and innovative,
with the ability to be replicated regionally
and across different tenant needs on a
scaleable basis. They have given housing
charity partners access to much needed
property, more than they would have
been able to access themselves
• Resonance has invested in 41 projects
with the impact theme education and
learning
• For example, BeyondAutism, Stockwood
CBS, The Wildings (MiMe Heuristics),
Belong Learning, Apricot Learning
Online and many others
• Resonance South West SITR Fund
invested into Bristol Braille Technology
CIC, to help improve educational
prospects for blind people
• Our Women In Safe Homes Fund,
launched in 2020, addresses the gender
inequality challenges faced by women
leading to homelessness including those
fleeing domestic abuse and leaving
prison. It is believed to be the world’s first
gender-lens fund, which over its lifetime
aims to provide 650+ homes for over
6,000 women
• The Women In Safe Homes Fund has
appointed an all-women Senior Board of
Advisors, which includes representatives
of the women’s sector and women with
lived experience of multiple disadvantage
• Resonance has invested in 36 projects
with the impact theme community
and local democracy and 64 projects in
housing and homelessness
• The National Homeless Property Fund
1, (NHPF1) launched in 2015, aiming to
tackle homelessness in Bristol, Milton
Keynes and Oxford. The Fund purchased
229 properties and housed nearly 600
people before NHPF2 launched in
2020, with the initial aim of tackling
homelessness in Greater Manchester,
before expanding into other regions, as it
is now
• Resonance has invested in 32 projects
with the impact theme energy and the
environment
• Our Community Share Underwriting
Fund invested in 12 renewable energy
projects: 2 hydro electric, 7 solar array,
1 wood fuelled biomass boiler and 2 wind
turbines
• In 2016, £600k was approved by the
Community Share Underwriting
Fund, for investment into Chelwood
Community Energy’s solar farm. This
45-acre site generates enough renewable
energy to power 1,100 homes for 25 years
• Resonance has invested in 33 projects
with the impact theme work and
employment
• Resonance has invested in many social
enterprises helping to get people back
into work and give them the necessary
skills such as Jericho, Skill Mill, Somerset
Wood, Sofab Sports and many others
• The Skill Mill provides meaningful
employment opportunities for ex-young
offenders resulting in much lower
reoffending rates
• Resonance has invested in 4 projects with
an impact theme of rehabilitation and
criminal justice and 36 projects relating to
community and local democracy
• In 2020, Resonance’s Women In Safe
Homes Fund partnered with national
social justice charity Nacro with the aim
of housing women leaving the criminal
justice system. In 2021, the Resonance
Everyone in Fund partnered with Nacro
with the goal of reducing rough sleeping
figures in London
• The Resonance South West SITR Fund
invested £280,000 into Sofab Sports, a
social enterprise which creates employment
opportunities for adults with physical and
learning disabilities. Nationally only 5.1% of
people with a learning disability aged 18-65
are in paid employment
• Resonance Supported Homes Fund and
Mustard Seed Property are both focused on
providing forever homes for people with
learning disability and/or autism who are
currently living in inappropriate housing
• Resonance has invested in 18 projects with
the impact theme poverty and disadvantage
• The Resonance South West SITR Fund
invested a total of £149,000 into Somerset
Wood, a company that not only offers
work-based training to people who have
been out of work for a long time but also
creates recycled products, contributing to
a more sustainable local economy
• Resonance Community Share
Underwriting Fund invested a total of
£5.1m into renewable energy projects
• Resonance has invested in 32 projects
with the impact theme energy and the
environment
• Resonance now has partnerships with
20 like-minded organisations, working
collaboratively towards the shared goal of
ending homelessness
• Collaborating with impact sector peers,
Resonance invested £3.2m into 120 social
enterprises that needed capital to keep
critical services running following the
pandemic
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