This was a new £1.5 million pilot fund managed by the Social Investment Business for the Cabinet Office that offered grants and support to social ventures to understand and improve their social impact and demonstrate improvements to investors and commissioners. Grants between £15,000 and £150,000 were available to help ventures build infrastructure and skills required to manage their performance, increase their social impact, and attract social investment / win contracts. This data shows: the venture supported, the grant amount and the postcode where the venture is headquartered. This data has been submitted by the Social Investment Business Group who manage the fund.
A data visualisation platform of the Cabinet Office Investment Readiness Programme can be viewed here: http://data.gov.uk/data/viz/investment-readiness-programme
About the Fund manager - http://www.sibgroup.org.uk/
About the fund - http://www.sibgroup.org.uk/impact-readiness-fund/