Impetus has invested in 23 charities and social enterprises. We are actively working with fifteen of these organisations and eight have "exited" our portfolio after the pre-defined investment period.
| Charity/social enterprise | Area of work |
| Current Investments | |
| Camfed International | Tackling poverty and AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa through education of rural women |
| Fairtrade Foundation | Poverty reduction in the developing world through fairer trade |
| IntoUniversity | Providing learning centres where young people are inspired to achieve |
| Street League | Using sport to re-engage and progress disadvantaged people into education and/or employment |
| COUI - Teens & Toddlers | Inspiring young people to get the skills, qualifications and self belief needed to succeed in education and life |
| Blue Sky Development & Regeneration | Reducing reoffending through employment |
| Resurgo Trust | Helping unemployed young people into work |
| Kainos Community | Positive engagement and personal development of prisoners |
| Prison Radio Association | Using radio to engage, educate and inform prisoners |
| Prisoners' Education Trust | Targeted skills and qualifications for offenders |
| Shannon Trust | Peer mentoring programme focused on literacy skills |
| Family Links | Improves emotional well-being and parent/child relationships |
| I CAN | Provides effective early intervention for children with speech and language difficulties |
| Ripplez | Delivers the Family Nurse Partnership - an interactive and structured home visiting programme for first-time teenage mothers |
| Education Endowment Foundation | Raising the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils in English schools |
| Past Investments | |
| Speaking Up (now called VoiceAbility) | Disability support |
| St Giles Trust | Offender resettlement |
| Acumen Development Trust | Tackling long-term unemployment through skills development |
| Leap Confronting Conflict | Youth conflict resolution |
| beat | Eating disorders information and support |
| Naz Project London (NPL) | Sexual health support to BME communities |
| Keyfund Federation | Skills development for disadvantaged young people |
| FRC Group | Skills development and training for the long-term unemployed |
The input of skills, expertise and money from Impetus have enabled us to take bold steps which otherwise we would never have had the capacity or ability to do.
Pete Lawson
Former Chairman of Leap Confronting Conflict