Ripplez offers an intensive and structured home visiting programme for first-time teenage mothers from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, which has proven to improve the children's long-term health development, their future school readiness and the parents' economic self-sufficiency.
Impetus support package
Impetus investment period: 2012 - 2013 (Planning
phase investment*)
Planning phase grant funding approved:
£50,000
Pro bono services donated: £38,540
Impetus has invested in Ripplez as part of the Impetus - Sutton
Early Years Initiative.
About Ripplez
Ripplez runs the Family Nurse Partnership programme (FNP),
offering intensive and structured home visiting for first-time
teenage mothers, delivered by specially trained nurses, from early
pregnancy until the child is two.
FNP has been widely recognised as a best-in-class programme, and
achieves a wide range of outcomes contributing directly to improved
school readiness.
Background to the investment
Impetus is investing in Ripplez initially for 12 - 18 months with
a view to making a longer-term investment at the end of the
planning process.
The social enterprise is expected to receive up to £400k in
strategic funding during the total length of the Impetus
investment, and at least the equivalent of that amount in pro bono
expertise, management support and additional funds raised.
The aim of the investment is to support Ripplez's ambitious growth
strategy.
Read more about Ripplez.
*Planning phase investment is an initial investment period to
develop the plan for growth. It is usually followed by further
investment over a longer period.
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