Useful Resources

• Better Society Capital
  The UK’s leading social impact investor. Its mission is to grow the amount of money invested in tackling social issues and inequalities in the UK.
   

• Impact Investing Institute
  Work to increase awareness and interest in impact investing. They provide research and tools to support investors and advocate for policy and regulation that make it easier to invest with impact, alongside financial return.
   

• The Global Steering Group (GSG)
  The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment consists of 21 countries plus the EU as members who are catalysing impact investment and entrepreneurship to benefit society.
   

• Impact Frontiers
  Impact Frontiers is a peer learning and market-building collaboration, developed with and for investors it also stewards the norms and consensus building practices pioneered by the Impact Management Project.
   

• The Impact Management Platform
  The Impact Management Platform is a collaboration between the leading providers of sustainability standards and guidance that are coordinating efforts to mainstream the practice of impact management.
   

• The Global Impact Investing Network (GINN)
  The GIIN is a non-profit organisation that aims to increase the scalability and efficiency of the impact investment industry globally.
   

• ImpactVC
  Is a community of venture capitalist’s accelerating impact within venture by providing the resources needed to achieved this.
   

• Europe’s Investing for Impact Network (EVPA)
  A unique network at the intersection of finance and purpose, driven by knowledge focused on impact.
   

• Pensions for Purpose
  Pensions for Purpose is a membership organisation acting as a bridge between asset managers, pension funds and their professional advisers, to encourage the flow of capital towards impact investment. 
   

• The Operating Principles for Impact Management
  The Impact Principles are a framework for investors implementation of their impact management systems, ensuring that impact considerations are integrated throughout the investment lifecycle. 

 

• SDG Impact | SDG Impact Standards for Private Equity - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Impact Management Norms | Impact Frontiers
• Welcome to IRIS+ System | the generally accepted system for impact investors to measure, manage, and optimize their impact (thegiin.org)
• B Impact Assessment (bcorporation.net)
• The 9 Principles | Operating Principles for Impact Management (impactprinciples.org)
• Just-Transition-Criteria.pdf (impactinvest.org.uk)
• VC Impact Playbook | ImpactVC
• Founders Playbook | Impactvc
• GIIRS | What GIIRS Does
• SROI Value Map - SROI Impact Map - Social Value UK

 

• Making impact count | The Good Economy
• Impact Verification for Impact Investors - BlueMark (bluemarktideline.com)

 

Impact Investing Institute: Placed-based impact investing: Emerging impact and insight

This report provides an insight into the evolving place-based impact investing landscape, how government is using public funding to leverage private capital investment into local impact and how to reduce the barriers to allow place-based impact investing to scale and spread. 

Read the report | (Published 2024) 

 

GIIN: In Focus: Gender and Impact Investing in 2024 

This report analyses progress made by impact investors who allocated 30% or more of their impact assets under management towards investees that are majority-owned or led by women. This uncovers how private sector efforts are closing gender equity gaps. 

Read the report | (Published 2024) 

 

Impact Investing Institute: The UK impact investing market: Size, scope, and potential 

Provides insights into the UK impact investing market size and analyses the levers and drivers that can help it grow. 

Read the report | (Published 2024) 

 

GIIN: State of the Market 2024: Trends, Performance and Allocations 

Offers insight on impact investors allocate their assets across geographies, sectors, stages of business and asset classes, and critically provides an overview of financial performance. 

Read the report | (Published 2024) 

 

GIIN: Sizing the Impact Investing Market 2024

Provides an overview of the market size of impact investing, the influencing actors and policies, organisation types including geographic focus and target financial returns,  

Read the report | (Published 2024) 

 

GIIN: Impact Investor Demographics

Provides an overview of impact investor characteristics, including where they are based, target financial returns, organization types and geographic focus.

Read the report | (Published 2023)

 

GIIN: Impact Investing Allocations, Activity and Performance

Offers insight on impact investors allocate their assets across geographies, sectors, stages of business and asset classes, and critically provides an overview of financial performance.

Read the report | (Published 2023)

 

GIIN: Impact Measurement and Management Practice: Engagement Approaches

Explores impact investors’ approaches to measuring and managing their impact, including how impact investors set targets, accountability mechanisms, and stakeholder.

Read the report | (Published 2023)

 

Impact Investing Institute – Estimating and describing the UK Impact Investing Market

Provides an estimate of the UK market size for the first time and analyses the levers and drivers that can help it grow.

Read the report | (Published 2022)

 

GIIN: Sizing the Impact Investing Market 2022

A market sizing study providing an indicator of the momentum driving impact investing around the world.

Read the report | (Published 2022)

 

Place Based Impact Investing White Paper

The Good Economy, Impact Investing Institute and Pensions for Purpose  joined forces to produce this white paper on place-based impact investing (PBII) to mobilise more institutional investment to address place-based inequalities and support more inclusive and sustainable development across the UK.

Read the report | Published (2021)

 

GIIN: Annual Impact Investor Survey

The global survey responses from 294 impact investment organisations providing an in-depth analysis of the impact investment market activity and key trends.

Read the report | (Published 2020)

 

Harvard Business Review: ‘Calculating the Value of Impact Investment

This report is an evidence-based six step approach to estimate the ‘impact multiple of money’ (IMM).

Read the report | (Published 2019)