Social impact

The impact investment manager is targeting the funding gap for SMEs in emerging markets with its latest product, the BlueOrchard Impact Credit Fund.

Johan Brand, co-founder of We Are Human, talks about the company’s unconventional business model that is driving societal impact through education, health and climate tech.

The close underscores the firm’s commitment to contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The fund will target four key investment themes: climate action, sustainable living, lifelong learning and inclusive growth.

The Growth Impact Fund developed by Big Issue Invest and UnLtd announced second close after raising £1.75m (€2m) from the Macquarie Group Foundation and BD Giving.

Campo Capital and Impact Earth will use the investment into their funds to expand their pipeline of forest landscape restoration projects across Latin America.

The UK’s Big Issue Invest has opened applications for its fourth social impact debt fund. We meet with investment director James Potter to understand how it works.

We sit down with Jean de Fougerolles, managing partner and founder of impact venture capitalists Ascension, to discuss how ‘tech for good’ can deliver returns and positive impact for people and planet.

According to estimates from the latest market survey by Big Society Capital, the size of the country’s social impact investing sector is now £9.4bn, with £1.8bn committed in 2022 alone.

Snowball has invested in the recently closed Aristata Impact Litigation Fund which supports legal action by under-resourced groups, while achieving uncorrelated financial returns 

Launched in 2020 as a joint venture of Resonance and Patron Capital, the fund has provided safe, secure and stable homes to over 120 women and children.