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Better Society Capital

@bettersocietycapital.com
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Better Society Capital improves the lives of people in the UK by connecting social investment to charities and social enterprises.

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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 13/10/2026
Our Policy and Government Engagement team are back from party conference season, where one question kept coming up: how do you do more with limited public money? Three themes stood out: 🤝 Partnership 🏘️ Housing and homelessness 📍 Local growth Full blog here: bettersocietycapital.com/latest/confe...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 12/10/2026
Congratulations to our MD Rebecca MacDonald, elected to the Impact Principles Advisory Board for 2026–2030! 🎉 Rebecca is one of five new members voted in by signatories to the Operating Principles for Impact Management, hosted by the GIIN. Find out more: www.impactprinciples.org/governance/
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 02/10/2026
This week at the Labour Conference we co-hosted two roundtables with the Co-operative Party: one with Lloyds Bank Foundation on how social investment can help end rough sleeping through stable homes and wraparound support, and one with Access on delivering the Local Power and Warm Homes Plans. 🤝
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 29/09/2026
We're kicking off The Global Impact Investing Network's AI Conversations series. 🤖 Nicholas Andreou & Rebecca MacDonald will share details on how BSC is building an AI-first investment process. If your organisation is a GIIN member, register here 👇 connect.thegiin.org/login?redire...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 25/09/2026
This week, we had our first Melting Potluck! 🍽️🌍 Our work is about building connections, and that starts with the people around us. We invited everyone to bring a dish from a place close to their heart, whether that's where they grew up, where their family is from, or a cuisine they love.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 23/09/2026
📣 Better Society Capital's new values have launched! We celebrated with cakes, games and some very competitive bridge-building. Our new values will guide how we work as we deliver our 2030 strategy: 🎯 We do hard things that matter 🤝 We bridge worlds 🌱 We grow with purpose
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 18/09/2026
This is the impact economy in action ⚡ Six neighbourhood health trailblazer sites are launching across England, backed by £1.5m from the Office for the Impact Economy and cornerstone investment from Macmillan Cancer Support. Find out more: www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Six neighbourhood health trailblazers to transform care
New neighbourhood health investment partnership to bring care closer to home and tackle health inequalities.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 11/09/2026
Outcomes will be decided locally and shaped by local needs, guided by themes spanning early years, homelessness and temporary accommodation, financial stability and more. Find out more: www.sibgroup.org.uk/fund/better-...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 11/09/2026
Over its lifetime, the Fund aims to catalyse up to £1 billion in outcomes payments, supporting up to 200,000 children, young people and families.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 11/09/2026
The first round is aimed at organisations with prior experience of participating in Social Outcomes Partnerships (SOPs) and existing SOP projects that are ready to deliver. Round 2 will scale up and open to all applicants, including those with no previous experience of SOP delivery.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 11/09/2026
🚀 The Better Futures Fund is moving from procurement to delivery. Great to see the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport appoint Social Investment Business as the delivery partner for Round 1, with applications now open.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 07/09/2026
🚀We're hiring a Managing Director to lead our Lending Asset Class. Lending is one of our three core asset classes and this is your chance to lead it: shaping strategy, growing the team, and building the relationships to unlock capital at scale. bettersocietycapital.com/about-us/wor...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 03/09/2026
🎙️Our CIO Jeremy Rogers joined The CIO Chair podcast to talk social impact investing. Drawing on more than a decade building the UK market, he explains how we start with the social issue, find where investment can help, then bring in capital. Full episode here 👇 www.buzzsprout.com/2526615/epis...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 27/08/2026
Party conference season is almost here! 🤝 Our team will be at all the major political party conferences. Want to connect while we're there, or hear about our work bringing investment into social impact and helping public money go further? Get in touch with @georgebrewster.bsky.social.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 26/08/2026
💡What if public services only paid for what actually works? That's the idea behind Social Outcomes Partnerships (SOPs) - commissioners set the outcomes they waant, and payment follows only once they're achieved and verified. Find out more 👉 bettersocietycapital.com/our-approach...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 20/08/2026
📬Sign up to our newsletter This edition features our new 2026-30 strategy report, our £5m into the Resonance Housing Pathways Fund to tackle homelessness, place-based investment through Greater Cambridge Impact, and more. Join the movement: confirmsubscription.com/h/t/A5FF368…
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 18/08/2026
Our CEO Stephen Muers spoke to Asset TV on UK social impact investing - a market now worth over £11bn. They cover how the market has matured, why intention beats just avoiding harm, government and investors working together, and the opportunity to scale what works. 🎥 www.asset.tv/video/capita...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 13/08/2026
As LGPS pooling reforms take effect, can local impact investment scale without losing its local focus? Our CIO Anna Shiel tells Impact Investor why scale and place-based investing don't have to work against each other 👇 impact-investor.com/can-lgps-pools-…
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Can LGPS pools deliver local impact at scale? | Impact Investor
As LGPS reforms give pools greater power, local impact mandates could be squeezed by scale, ticket-size requirements and broader geographies, leaving less obvious regional opportunities without the in...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 13/08/2026
Some LGPS funds are only now investing locally. Greater Manchester Pension Fund has done it for 25+ years. Our MD James Burrows spoke to GMPF's Andrew Hall on how social outcomes partnerships fit in a local investment strategy. 👉https://bettersocietycapital.com/latest/gmpf-how-sops-support-strategy/
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 13/08/2026
For LGPS funds, local investment is now statutory, and pooling has created the scale to act. In her latest piece for Private Markets Profile piece, our MD Gemma Bourne sets out three areas where mayoral priorities and investable opportunity already meet. 👇 privatemarketsprofile.com/beyond-the-m...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 07/08/2026
We're hiring! As we deliver our 2026-2030 strategy we're looking for the following roles: 🌱 Investment Associate & Manager (rotation programme) 🚀 Investment Manager, Portfolio 💡 Investment Manager, Client Investment 🔎 Interim Impact Manager (12-month FTC) 👉 bettersocietycapital.com/about-us/wor...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 06/08/2026
📢 Join us for a careers webinar on Monday, 10 August at 2:00pm to hear about the range of roles currently open across our Investment team! Sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/bette... If you have any questions, contact lgarfield@bettersocietycapital.com.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 30/07/2026
We're delighted to see the Resonance Housing Pathways Fund (RHPF) launch today, and proud to be part of it with a £5m commitment. Through RHPF, institutional investors and expert housing partners are coming together to increase the supply of homes for people facing homelessness.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 24/07/2026
🏘️How does a DC master trust invest in social and affordable housing? now:pensions was among the first, co-investing alongside BSC. In a Pensions Expert Q&A, their Director of Investment Martyn James spoke to our MD Gemma Bourne on what shaped the decision. www.pensions-expert.com/investment/n...
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Now Pensions on social housing and private markets investing
Martyn James, director of investment at Now Pensions, explains how the £7.1bn master trust is allocating to affordable and social housing as part of its private markets strategy.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 23/07/2026
What can the impact economy expect now Andy Burnham is in Number 10? Our Policy and Advocacy Director Tess Godley told @pioneerspost.bsky.social the foundations are already in place - the hope is the government builds on them, with the impact economy as partner.🧱 www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/2...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 22/07/2026
The PM's commitment is the first phase of a five-year programme, with further steps to be set out before the autumn. It is time to bring social impact investment into the mainstream of UK housing and homelessness policy. Read the full SIP evaluation: bettersocietycapital.com/latest/every...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 22/07/2026
The independent evaluation by Manchester Metropolitan University found the pilot delivered homes faster, of higher quality and with greater tenancy stability than grant funding could, and at a lower cost to the public purse than temporary accommodation.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 22/07/2026
The PM pointed to Everyone In, the pandemic scheme that got rough sleepers off the streets at speed. We partnered with MHCLG on the Everyone In Social Investment Pilot, a £50m investment which helped lever in a further £138m acquiring homes in areas with the higheset levels of deprivation.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 22/07/2026
Yesterday in his opening speech as Prime Minister, Andy Burnham made ending rough sleeping his first commitment in office, backed by an extra £340mn and record levels of funding.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 17/07/2026
A new report from IPPR and IPPR North makes the case for a housing-led approach to tackling the homelessness crisis. It sets out practical recommendations, including bringing empty homes back into use and boosting social housing supply. Learn more 👉 www.ippr.org/articles/home-truths
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Home truths: Housing-led approaches to homelessness | IPPR
The most meaningful progress has instead come from places where local leaders have made homelessness a priority, driving improvements in both the provision
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 15/07/2026
🌞 Last week the BSC and Access teams got together for our joint summer social, filled with games, crafts, a pub quiz and a bake-off that stole the show. A huge well done to the bakers and brave tasters, and thanks to everyone who planned such a brilliant afternoon. 🍰
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 14/07/2026
How can social investors better engage with LGBTQ+ VCSE organisations? A new report from Social Enterprise UK, Better Society Capital and Access explores the barriers, opportunities and practical next steps. Learn more🔗 bit.ly/4ymSTpL
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Addressing the funding gap of LGBTQ+ support organisations - can social investment be part of the solution? | Social Enterprise UK
LGBTQ+ support organisations are facing a difficult combination of rising demand, worsening public attitudes and a tougher funding environment. Grants and d ...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 14/07/2026
Our Investment Director, Drew Ritchie, joined panellists from Mercer and Social and Sustainable Capital on our co-organised webinar on how social investment can tackle the UK's homelessness crisis. One clear thread: progress depends on government, investors and housing providers working together.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 02/07/2026
💻 Yesterday Megan Barrett & Emily McMahon from Power 2 Connect came in to share how donated IT kit tackles digital exclusion. Not just by providing devices, but supporting connectivity, skills & confidence too. BSC has donated 131 devices since 2022. Thank you Megan and Emily for joining us!
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 30/06/2026
English councils spend £2.8bn a year on temporary accommodation. Our research shows social investment can be part of the solution. On 7 July, our Investment Director Drew Ritchie speaks on a session co-organised with Mercer to share the evidence with endowments, foundations and long-term investors.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 30/06/2026
Our Investment Director, Joe Shamash, and Investment, Partnerships and Advisory Manager, Olly Tapper, spent the week at London Climate Action Week. They're sharing what they saw, what gave them hope, and what we all need to grapple with. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4gNPry3
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 29/06/2026
That is the space we work in at Better Society Capital: patient, well-designed investment that complements public funding to bring forward affordable housing and alternatives to temporary accommodation. Housing 2026 showed the appetite is real. The open question is whether we can rewire fast enough.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 29/06/2026
The hopeful counterpoint also came from London: one joined-up budget lets leaders connect housing, health and homelessness. Change the plumbing and behaviour follows.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 29/06/2026
The wiring matters as much as the money. London's temporary accommodation overspend is sky-high, and with housing benefit set below real rents, subsidised housing still needs more subsidy to work.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 29/06/2026
The panels that stood out were all about how the right capital brings more homes forward and a clear thread throughout was housing being treated as economic infrastructure - not just a social provision.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 29/06/2026
🏘️We were delighted to attend Housing 2026 in Manchester last week. Across all panels the same argument kept surfacing: we increasingly agree on what works - the harder question is whether the system is wired to deliver it.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 24/06/2026
Our new 2026-2030 strategy now sets out an ambitious goal to mobilise £20-30 billion towards four of the country's most pressing challenges: access to housing, economic opportunity, health, and the social implications of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. 🔗 bsc.hacdn.io/media/docume...
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 24/06/2026
The Government's commitment to social impact investment grew too, from the £500 million Better Futures Fund to the new Office for the Impact Economy.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 24/06/2026
This came against a backdrop of real macro-economic pressure for the communities we exist to serve, which makes the momentum, and the work of our partners, all the more encouraging.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 24/06/2026
Our latest market-sizing exercise put the market at an estimated £11.2 billion, up from £5.1 billion five years ago. We also passed the milestone of investing over £1 billion of our own capital since inception, alongside £3.9 billion from our co-investors.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 24/06/2026
📊Our 2025 Annual Report is now live. A key aspiration in our 2021-2025 strategy was to help at least double the size of the UK social impact investment market, and we're pleased with our progress.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 22/06/2026
Our Chief Investment Officer Jeremy Rogers, Investment Director Joe Shamash, along with Oliver Tapper and Raymond Lai, will be attending events across the week. See the events they'll be attending below, and if you're there, do connect with them. #LCAW2026
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 22/06/2026
At BSC, central to our climate and energy strategy is ensuring a just transition that benefits everyone, leaving no one behind in the shift to a low-carbon society.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 22/06/2026
🌍This week, London becomes the centre of global and local climate action. London Climate Action Week is bringing together 75,000+ people across 1,000+ events to drive climate progress and action. This year, we're excited to be part of the conversation.
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Better Society Capital @bettersocietycapital.com · 18/06/2026
If you're a fund manager exploring how to finance projects like these, we'd love to talk. Find out more about our Community Energy Catalyst facility here 👉 bettersocietycapital.com/portfolio/co... Read the full parliamentary report here 👉 publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5902/cm...
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