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Baillie Gifford & Co
Calton Square, 1 Greenside Row, Edinburgh EH1 3AN
Contact: Marianne Harper-Gow
Tel: 0131 275 2000
Fax: 0131 275 3999
Email: marianne.harpergow@bailliegifford.com
Web: www.bailliegifford.com
We are one of the UK's leading independent investment management firms. Our main lines of business are Pension Funds, both definded benefit and defined contribution (D.C.), Investment Trusts and Retail Financial Products (OEICs, Unit Trusts and ISAs). We are active fund managers and provide investment advice to some of the world's leading financial institutions. We are amongst the largest managers of segregated and pooled pension funds in the UK and have significant international asset management business in the United States, Canada, Japan and Germany. Baillie Gifford's approach towards corporate governance and socially responsible investment (SRI) is characterised by engagement rather than exclusion. That is, where we hold shares in a company, we engage its management in dialogue to encourage improvements in its corporate governance, management of environmental impact and relationships with employees, customers, suppliers and the community. In selecting and retaining investments, we seek to favour those companies that pursue best practices, provided this does not act to the detriment of the return or risk of the portfolios we manage. We also vote all of our clients' shares at meetings of UK companies and vote against proposals of both UK and overseas companies where we feel these are not in the shareholders' interests.
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Barchester Green Investment
Barchester House, 45-49 Catherine Street, Salisbury SP1 2DH
Contact: John Ditchfield
Tel: 01722 331 241
Fax: 01722 414 191
Email: john.ditchfield@barchestergreen.co.uk
Web: www.barchestergreen.co.uk
Founded in 1985, Barchester Green Investment is the oldest of the ethical IFAs. It has a team of advisors based in London, Brighton, Exeter, Bristol, North Somerset, and Salisbury, who travel to clients homes and work places to give advice and personal service. A new office was opened at London Bridge in December 2004.
Barchester created the “Best of Green” fund in 1991 to make the best ethical unit trusts accessible through life and pension policies. In November 1993, it launched what was then the only offshore ethical fund for expatriates and development workers in the third world.
Barchester’s mission is “To help people make confident and informed decisions in their financial lives, taking into consideration their social, ethical and ecological views. Always remembering that it is the values of the client rather than the consultant which determines the recommendation”.
Presently, some 89 per cent of business is carried out on a green / ethical basis, the remainder being mainly non-investment and annuity business.
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Barclays Global Investors Limited
Murray House, 1 Royal Mint Court, London EC3N 4HH
Contact: Clarence Yang
Tel: 020 7668 8027
Fax: 020 7668 8910
Email: clarence.yang@barclaysglobal.com
Web: www.barclaysglobal.com
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Barclays PLC
1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP
Contact: Philippa Birtwell, Social Affairs Manager
Tel: 0207 116 1000
Email: philipa.birtwell@barclays.com
Web: www.barclays.com
Barclays PLC is a UK-based financial services group and one of the UK's largest companies. Barclays provides retail banking products to a wide range of personal and business customers, as well as investment banking and asset management expertise to a global client base. Barclays has been involved in banking in the UK for over 300 years and today operates in around 70 countries worldwide.
Community Investment is an integral part of Barclay's corporate strategy. In 1997, Barclays committed over £15 million to community initiatives worldwide. Encouraging local action is key to all our programmes and we seek to work in partnership with local communities and voluntary sector organisations to tackle issues that matter to them.
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Bates Wells & Braithwaite
2-6 Cannon Street, London EC4M 6YH
Contact: Stephen Lloyd
Tel: 020 7551 7777
Fax: 020 7551 7800
Email: mail@bwbllp.com
Web: www.bateswells.co.uk
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Big Invest Company Ltd
402 Coppergate House, 16 Brune Street, London E1 7NJ
Contact: Nigel Kershaw
Tel: 020 7526 3388
Fax: 020 7526 3261
Email: chair@bigissue.com
Web:
"BIGinvest's mission is to fund business solutions that create financial opportunity, inclusion and regeneration by investing in and scaling up the social business sector.
"BIGinvest's Board and the partnership between The Big Issue and ShoreBank bring together a wealth of experience and innovation in both social entrepreneurship and financing of social businesses and community regeneration."
Nigel Kershaw, (Executive Chairman, The Big Issue)
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BITC (Business in the Community)
137 Shepherdess Walk, London N1 7RQ
Contact: Joanna Daniels
Tel: 0870 600 2482
Fax: 020 7253 1877
Email: joanna.daniels@bitc.org.uk
Web: www.bitc.org.uk
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Bromige
22 Hartfield Road, Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5DY
Contact: Christian Thal-Janzen
Tel: 01342 826 703
Fax: 01342 826 704
Email: invest@bromige.co.uk
Web: www.bromige.co.uk
Bromige is one of the pioneers of ethical investment having implemented the earliest ethical pension scheme in 1979 and the second ethical collective investment fund in 1986. We were founder members of both the UKSIF and the EIA.
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