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...

📢 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.

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.

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...

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...

🌞 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. 🍰

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.

💻 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!

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.

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 👉 http://bit.ly/4gNPry3

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.

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...

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

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...

Half the Story is a Nottingham-based social enterprise making handmade shortbread biscuits and employing people facing major barriers to work. 🍪 We were delighted to welcome Rachel Pigott to share how their model works and its social impact. Find out more at: https://www.halfthestory.uk/

Today is #SocialMobilityDay and this year's theme is 'Stories Matter'. Handcrafted, one of our social investments, pairs supported accommodation with skills training, giving people the tools to change their stories. 👉 Find out more: https://bettersocietycapital.com/impact-stories/handcrafted/

Impact reporting has come a long way. But are we producing reports that actually support decisions, or just meeting disclosure requirements? Our Managing Director, Hermina Popa, explores this in a new piece for Philanthropy Impact Magazine. Read the full piece👉 https://bit.ly/4xeuySG

Our ambition is to support communities to lead on energy security and climate action over the next decade. 👉Find out more about our Climate & Energy strategy at: bettersocietycapital.com/our-approach...

How can capital drive a greener and fairer future? Our Chief Investment Officer, Jeremy Rogers, will explore this question with other leaders from finance, business and policy at the Cazenove Capital Sustainability & Impact Summit in London on 11 June. Find out more 👉 https://bit.ly/4e1AKVe

🙌Happy Volunteers' Week! Volunteering sits at the heart of UK society, and the ripple effects on individuals, communities and the economy are profound. Read about our what our colleagues get up to below. 👇 #VolunteersWeek #SocialImpact

Our Investment Directors, Julie Rubenstein and Hayley Hand, will be speaking at THE REAL Summits London 2026 on 3 June at Underwood Lofts, Old Street. If you're attending, do connect with them on the day. #TheREALSummit

🎉 We're pleased to share that Better Society Capital has been named a 2026 Practice Leader in BlueMark's seventh annual Making the Mark Report, placing us in the top quartile of 164+ impact investors. 📥 Download the full report here: www.bluemark.co/making-the-mark-2026/

BSC has been investing in this market for over a decade, and the evidence for what community energy can deliver keeps growing. Find out more about our climate and energy approach🔗 bit.ly/3PmJ0a8

Earlier this week, our colleagues attended the Parliamentary launch of @responsiblefinance.bsky.social's new report, "Powering People, Places and Purpose."💡 📌 Read the full report here: responsiblefinance.org.uk/policy-resea...

Three years ago, ImpactVC launched within BSC to help tilt the venture ecosystem towards impact. Today it's a global network of 1,100+ members across 50+ countries, with 30+ gatherings a year and practical resources for VCs. See what the community has been building https://bit.ly/3R7H9q1

For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we focused on the theme Action, getting outside, taking breaks and spending time together as a team.

Our CIO, Jeremy Rogers, will be speaking at PEI's Impact Investor Global Summit 2026 next week, joining a panel on systemic social investing, exploring what investors can reasonably achieve in addressing the root causes of social problems. Learn more: bit.ly/4nmdsxr

Also speaking at PEI's Impact Investor Global Summit 2026 next week is our CIO Anna Shiel, joining a panel on affordable healthcare and sustainable health systems, examining the intersection of investment, policy and innovation. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4nmdsxr

She left us with one big question: the conversation tends to focus on the risk of adopting AI, but what about the risk of not adopting it where it has demonstrated value and is safe? Thank you to Estia for giving us lots to think about!

Thank you to everyone who joined our Careers in Social Investment event yesterday, and to our brilliant speakers, BSC's Rebecca MacDonald, Ismat Imaan, Max Le Merle and Ellie Vlavianou from Octopus Capital. Great to see such enthusiasm for building a career with purpose.