💻 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

🏘️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.

📊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.

🌍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.

⚡A new parliamentary report could be a real turning point for the UK's energy transition. The Energy Security and Net Zero Committee is calling for urgent action to build community ownership of energy, so the public is properly bought in and benefitting from renewables.

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

🌍It's #WorldEnvironmentDay and with the UK hitting a record 35.1°C in May, "A Global Call for Climate Action" feels especially timely. We need everyone bought in to make climate action work, and for this to happen, climate action has to work for everyone.

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/

Energy bills are rising again in July. For households already under pressure, the case for a different kind of energy system has never been stronger.

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

💡How is AI reshaping venture capital, and what are the risks of not embracing it? Yesterday, we welcomed Estia Ryan, Principal and Head of Research at Eka Ventures, to our office for a fascinating conversation drawing on Eka's portfolio and her own experiments.

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.

The Better Futures Fund (BFF) is moving from ambition into action. Today, the UK Government opened its search for a delivery partner for Round 1 of the BFF, the first major procurement milestone since the fund was announced.

We're proud to be supporting E3M Imagine 2026 on 6 May in Manchester. Our colleagues James Westhead, Jovana Lalic and Hannah Millard will be there, facilitating and joining the conversation on real challenges facing public services and the social economy. More details: bit.ly/4cFihyb

⏳Just two days to go until The Good Economy's housing deep dive on 30 April. Our MD Gemma Bourne will be joining a lineup of expert investors, policymakers and practitioners to explore housing as a strategic local investment opportunity. 🎟️Reserve your place 👉 https://bit.ly/4sW7021

Last week, The Manchester Metropolitan University's Policy Evaluation and Research Unit published the final evaluation of the Everyone In Social Investment Pilot, three years of independent research into whether social investment can effectively channel private capital to tackle homelessness.

🌍Earth Day this year lands in the middle of a fossil fuel crisis. Its theme - Our Power, Our Planet - couldn't be more pertinent. Our Investment Director Joe Shamash reflects on the progress made on the UK's energy transition and asks what a more ambitious drive for energy security could look like.

🌍 This Earth Day, we're focussing on a project that shows what's possible when communities are at the heart of the energy transition.

We're excited to launch An Introduction to Social and Affordable Housing Funds, our 2026 report on the UK's rapidly evolving impact market. Explore social and affordable housing in the UK, financial returns, risk and fund categories, impact management practice and more. https://bit.ly/4sAE9zr

We welcomed The Glasshouse to our office this week for a workshop with our new joiners, repotting plants and hearing from their CEO and an employee who had been through their programme. A fitting introduction for our new joiners to the kind of organisations and social impact we exist to support.

Our CIOs, Jeremy Rogers and Anna Shiel, will be speaking at the Impact Investor Global Summit 2026 on 19-20 May in London, exploring how investors can drive real change across systemic social investing and affordable healthcare. 📌Register here: https://bit.ly/484yuua

Congratulations to Eka Ventures on closing their $107m Fund II, making them the UK's largest early-stage impact VC across health, wellbeing and sustainability. We're proud to be an LP in the fund, which is aligned with our focus on tackling health inequalities. Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/4msO0px

How can social impact investment help address the UK's housing crisis? Our Investment Director, Drew Ritchie, explores this in @politicshome.bsky.social, arguing that social impact investment offers cost-effective alternatives to the crisis. Read the full piece 👇 https://bit.ly/3QB6h88

Our MD Gemma Bourne is joining The Good Economy's housing deep dive on 30 April, exploring how institutional capital can address the UK's housing shortfall. If you're working across LGPS, local authorities, fund management or place-based development, reserve your place here 👉https://bit.ly/4sW7021

📢 The Blended Finance Collective has launched its Vision 2045 Calls to Action, turning its initial roadmap into practical steps for the sector. Explore the Call to Actions here 👉 https://bit.ly/4m0Crpv

ImpactVC, ReframeVenture and @projectliberty.io have published a timely report on responsible AI in venture capital. Dive in to see where the industry stands on this topic: https://bit.ly/4s40ntk

Our Head of Social Sector Engagement, Melanie Mills, joined the stage at @anthropyuk.bsky.social for a panel on how everyday businesses unlock local opportunity and national prosperity.

🌟To mark #BCorpMonth, we were delighted to welcome @tomebbutt.bsky.social, Director of Impact at @blabuk.bsky.social, to our office for a conversation on what meaningful impact looks like in practice.

🏠Millions lack access to safe housing, 💼Barriers block access to economic opportunity,🩺Health inequalities persist, and the🌱climate transition risks deepening inequality. These challenges shape our 2030 strategy and where we see opportunities for investment. Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/475hFie

Our 2030 strategy builds on more than a decade of work helping to grow the UK’s social impact investment market and sets out how we plan to build on that progress in the years ahead.

Over the past decade, we’ve worked with partners to grow the UK’s social impact investment market by 13x Today, we’re launching our 2030 strategy, setting out how we’ll build on that progress and respond to the scale of the challenges facing society today.

📢 We're excited to launch our inaugural Better Society Index, focusing on how homelessness is being recorded, resourced and experienced across the UK. 👉 Visit our website to learn more: LINK

To mark #IWD, we welcomed Claire Hilton, MD of Luminary Bakery, to our office to share how they support women who have experienced homelessness, abuse, and exploitation to rebuild their lives through training and employment. Our team also enjoyed sampling some of Luminary’s excellent baked goods.

For #IWD2026, the theme is #GiveToGain, highlighting how sharing support, opportunities and knowledge can drive progress for women. To celebrate, we asked women across BSC: what’s one thing someone gave you that helped your career, and how have you passed it on? Here is what they said👇

The Attix CIC turbine in Kilbirnie is now operational! We're proud to have supported it through Community Energy Catalyst, our £40m funding partnership with Thrive Renewables. Congratulations to Radio City Association and everyone who helped bring it to life. Learn more👉 https://bit.ly/4rLH0WE

Our latest blog shares insights from the Blended Finance Energy Project, with @access-si.bsky.social, @churchofengland.org, GB Energy, @jrf-uk.bsky.social and others, exploring how to design investment models that scale community energy projects. Read more 👇 https://bit.ly/4r0DMgJ

Proud to be shortlisted for Community Energy Catalyst (CEC) with @bettersocietycapital.com 🏆 CEC is our joint venture offering flexible funding for community groups to build their own clean energy projects, or take a stake in part of a larger project in their area. Congrats to all the finalists!

We welcome the launch of the UK Community Finance Partnership Taskforce and Roadmap to unlock £1bn of additional CDFI lending for small businesses. As a long-term backer of CDFIs, we’re encouraged to see action to widen access to finance for small businesses. Learn more👉 https://bit.ly/4aDOkh6

We’re excited to announce our investment in Greater Cambridge Impact (GCI), a place-based initiative working to tackle inequality across the Greater Cambridge area.