In December 2011 Big Society Capital commissioned Spring Impact to conduct research to help better understand the social franchising marketplace in the UK. We were then commissioned to conduct a follow-up piece of work to look at the need for, and possible structure of, a social franchise investment intermediary. This report is the output of both pieces of research.

*In 2017 The International Centre for Social Franchising (ICSF) became Spring Impact. This report was created under our old branding and name.