Directory – UKSIF

Amnesty International UK

Arun Kelshiker

Private Investor

Association of Member Nominated Trustees (AMNT)

Other

Barrow Cadbury Trust

Big Issue Invest

Big Issue Invest , founded in 2005, is the UK's first 'social merchant bank,' by social entrepreneurs, for social entrepreneurs. Big Issue Invest extends The Big Issue’s mission by financing the growth of sustainable social enterprises.

Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), the national charity supporting Quakers in Britain, workings for and on behalf of the communities we serve. Our charitable purposes are Sustaining our church and faith; Supporting Quaker Communities; Witness through action; and Promoting Quakerism. For over 360 years Quaker faith has led us to testify to equality, simplicity, peace and truth. Quaker social witness encompasses work for peace in Israel–Palestine and in Africa. It strives for environmental sustainability, a compassionate criminal justice system and for equality in Britain. It supports poorer people in society through bursaries, relief payments and grants. We provide central support to the witness of local meetings, for example through servicing networks of prison chaplains.

Charity
Faith

Brunel Pension Partnership Ltd

CDP

CDP runs the global environmental disclosure system. Each year CDP supports thousands of companies, cities, states and regions to measure and manage their risks and opportunities on climate change, water security and deforestation.

Charity Finance Group

Chesnara Plc

Becoming a sustainable business is important to us and we're working to put sustainability at the heart of everything we do. Our principles are: Do no harm. Do good. Act now for later. Sustainability means fulfilling the needs of the present without compromising the future: a balance of economic growth, environmental protection and social responsibility. As an insurer and provider of financial products, thinking about the long term comes naturally to us and is key to our success. Meeting our sustainability goals means making forward-looking decisions in the interests of all our stakeholders, including our customers, policyholders, investors, regulators, the planet and its natural resources.

Church Commissioners

The Church Commissioners exist to support the work and mission of the Church of England today and for future generations, helping it to remain a Christian presence in every community. We manage an £8.3bn investment fund in a responsible and ethical way, using the money we make from our investments to contribute towards the cost of mission projects, dioceses in low-income areas, bishops, cathedrals, and pensions.

Church of England Pensions Board

The Church of England Pension Board provides retirement housing and pensions, set by the Church of England, for those who have served or worked for the Church, assist ing over 40,000 people across almost 700 employers.

Co-operative Group Limited

Council Of Lutheran Churches

Cushon Group Ltd

Cushon is a fintech using its world-leading financial technology to engage savers and empower them to build a better financial future. Cushon offers pension and savings products via an intuitive mobile app that provides a highly personalised experience and environmentally friendly investments, making it easy for customers to manage their money and invest in a way that aligns with their personal goals and beliefs. Cushon currently has over 200,000 customers with £840m of assets under management. Its corporate clients include 250 well known blue-chip companies including many of the FTSE 100, plus over 7,500 smaller employers across the UK.

Diocese of Westminster

Dolphin Living

East Sussex Pension Fund

The East Sussex Pension Fund aims to provide secure pensions for its members. It achieves this by investing in a wide range of assets, highly diversified across asset classes and global markets.

Environmental Industries Commission, The

Ethex

Finance Innovation Lab

The Finance Innovation Lab builds power to transform the financial system for people and planet. We cultivate a community of systems-changemakers and work on initiatives that impact mental models and power dynamics in finance for deep, lasting change. Our work focuses on growing purpose-driven finance, shifting mainstream finance, influencing law, regulation and policy, and building our community.

Finance Innovation Lab

The Finance Innovation Lab incubates the people, ideas and movements building a financial system that serves people and planet. We work with innovators developing new business models, campaigners calling for change in the rules of the game, and mainstream professionals who want to change finance from the inside.

Charity
Other

Forum per la Finanza Sostenibile (ItaSIF)

Friends Provident Foundation

Friends Provident Foundation is an independent, endowed, charity that is striving for a fair and sustainable economic system that serves people and planet. We connect, fund, support and invest in new thinking to shape a future economy that works for all.

Global Canopy

Global Canopy targets the market forces destroying nature. We are a 60-strong not for profit organisation headquartered in Oxford and working with partners around the UK and in Brazil, Indonesia, Sweden, and China.We provide data for nature. This means we improve the data and tools available for companies and financial institutions so that they can reverse nature loss instead of driving it. We hold financial institutions and companies to account for their actions and show them how to change. We advise governments and politicians on legislation around market impacts on nature, working to strengthen the expectations and regulations that govern corporate behaviour. We focus on halting and reversing deforestation. Forests are home to the majority of the world’s biodiversity and are essential carbon sinks absorbing our greenhouse gas emissions.

Global Child Forum

Global Child Forum was founded by the King and Queen of Sweden in 2009. Our aim is to improve the way businesses all over the world impact children. We do this by, in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group, publishing the worlds largest benchmark on how the 2000 largest companies in the world impact children. We offer tools, services, networking events etc (all free of charge) to help companies improve their scores and impact. We recently, started working with the financial sectors, we share the underlying benchmark data with them (also for free). To date, 14 investors wirth 7.2 trillion USD are using the data. Some of these are London based and our colleagues who work with the fiancial sector are British and spend much time in the UK.

Global Returns Project

We make high-impact climate philanthropy normal and easy in financial planning, investment management and corporate social responsibility.

Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation

At Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, our mission is clear – to build the foundations of a healthier society. For over 500 years, we’ve been a constant in London’s ever-changing landscape, at the leading edge of health. Our home in the heart of a global city is vibrant and diverse, but it is also a place with stark health inequity. Our commitment and work are backed by our endowment, which allows us to take a long-term view while addressing the real and urgent health issues of today. Our focus is on backing people and ideas to drive more equitable health. We invest, partner, engage and influence to come at big health challenges from all angles. Through our family of forward-looking organisations, we collaborate with our communities, partners and hospitals, and use our assets to transform lives.

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust is a Quaker trust which supports people who address the root causes of conflict and injustice. This support is provided, primarily, through funding applied for by applicants.

JustShare

Koru Impact Solutions

Koru Impact Solutions is a trailblazing financial technology (FinTech) company specialising in environmentally beneficial investment.

Based in the UK, our innovative software and consultancy solutions empower individuals and businesses to navigate the complex world of environmental impact regulations, helping financial professionals save time, maintain compliance, as well as helping ensure responsible investing is rewarded.

We provide a top-down solution for fund managers which stream lines impact reporting and aligns with climate regulations. Fund managers have lots of data disaggregated data that we turn into easily digestable outputs.

LGPS Central

LGPS Central Limited manages the pooled assets of eight Midlands-based Local Government Pension Scheme funds. With combined assets of approximately £55bn, and representing the retirement savings of around 1 million scheme members across over 2,000 employers, LGPS Central Limited’s Partner Funds are; Cheshire Pension Fund, Derbyshire Pension Fund, Leicestershire Pension Fund, Nottinghamshire Pension Fund, Shropshire Pension Fund, Staffordshire Pension Fund, West Midlands Pension Fund, and Worcestershire Pension Fund.

Lendology CIC

Lendology CIC is a pioneering B Corp and social enterprise lender, regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, with a mission to transform homeowners' lives. Collaborating closely with local councils across the UK, Lendology offers an extensive range of financial solutions, addressing a spectrum of homeowner needs. From essential home repairs and improvements to energy-efficiency upgrades, renewable technology installations, and adaptations for accessibility, Lendology CIC is committed to fostering a safe, sustainable, and inclusive living environment for all.

What truly sets Lendology apart is its unwavering dedication to fairness. Regardless of individual circumstances, loan amounts, or terms, every applicable homeowner receives the same fixed interest rate. This approach ensures equitable access to financial support, eliminating the need for high-cost credit arrangements that can burden many individuals.

Merseyside Pension Fund

Merseyside Pension Fund aims to provide secure pensions, effectively and efficiently administered to contributing employers. The Fund invests in a highly diversified portfolio of assets across multiple asset classes on a global basis.

Mustardseed Trust

Mustardseed Trust enables an economy of care which is build on partnerships and regeneration. In a care economy, we are able to care for oneself, the community and for the ecosystem in a balanced way. In a care economy we have seen a shift from growth, debt-based, entropic economic systems managed by large, centralised institutions, to a regenerative network of decentralised, transparent, and mutually sustaining economies in services of humanity to live in dignity. The care economy supports markets that fully respect and account for ecosystem function. It also mutually respects and accounts for all types of labour and caring activities.

Oxfam

Pension Protection Fund

Our duty is to protect the millions of people who belong to UK defined benefit pension schemes. When these schemes fail, we’re here to support their members. When an employer becomes insolvent and its pension scheme cannot afford to pay its promised pensions, we compensate scheme members for the pensions they have lost. We take over responsibility for payments once we’ve assessed that a scheme cannot afford to buy benefits from an insurance company which are equal to, or more than, the PPF would pay. Currently around 277,000 people are members of the PPF. Before the PPF, these people could have faced significant financial uncertainty and hardship. We protect approximately 10 million members of more than 5,000 DB pension schemes.

People's Partnership

People's Partnership, the provider of The People's Pension, is a financial services business that uses its profits to provide straightforward, accessible, trusted products and support that help people become financially stronger. We champion better financial outcomes for people through focused research and supporting government policy change where needed, helping to shape our industry for the better. Our purpose is to help people to build financial foundations for life. Our vision is for the UK to be a place where millions of people lead financially stronger lives because of their trust in us. Our mission is to use our profits to provide straightforward, accessible, trusted financial products and support that help people become financially stronger.

Philanthropy Impact

Phoenix Group

Phoenix Group is the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business with c.13 million customers and c.£310 billion of assets under administration. As a purpose-led organisation we are committed to delivering better outcomes for all of our stakeholders, including our customers, colleagues, investors and wider society. As the country navigates a shifting pensions landscape, we will continue to support people in their journey to and through retirement by providing solutions to their long-term savings and retirement needs. This means providing the right guidance and products, at the right time, to support the right decisions. As a market leader, we believe we have a core social purpose, to help as many people as possible secure a life of possibilities.

Planet Tracker

Planet Tracker is a non-profit financial think tank aligning capital markets with planetary boundaries. It was created to investigate the risk of market failure related to environmental limits. This investigation is primarily for the investor community where environmental limits are often not aligned with investor capital. Investor goals which maximise high financial returns are generally not placing fair value on natural capital and nature-based resources. To achieve this, Planet Tracker generates breakthrough analytics to redefine how financial and environmental data interact with the aim of changing the practices of financial decision makers to help avoid both environmental and financial failure.

Railpen

The Railways Pension Scheme is one of the UK’s largest and longest established pension funds. RPMI Railpen (Railpen) is responsible for the safekeeping and investment of circa £30 billion on behalf of the scheme’s 350,000 members who are connected to the railway industry. Our mission is to pay our members’ pensions securely, affordably and sustainably. To achieve this we invest the scheme’s assets to generate strong investment returns over the long term.

Responsible Finance

Responsible Investment Association (Canada)

Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA)

Other

Royal London Group

The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited, along with its subsidiaries, is the largest mutual insurer in the United Kingdom, with Group funds under management of £100 billion.

Scottish Widows

Scottish Widows has been helping people plan for their financial futures for over 200 years. We look after the retirement savings of millions of hard-working people and our role is to help them plan for their long-term financial prosperity. To do this, it's important we continue to use our scale and influence, along with our fund manager relationships, to challenge the companies we invest in on our customers' behalf to be the sustainable businesses of the future.

ShareAction

Social Value UK

Soil Association

The Soil Association is the charity that digs deeper to transform the way we eat, farm and care for our natural world. We want to live in a world which is in balance with nature and a future with good health and a safe climate. In order to achieve that, it is our mission to help everyone understand and explore the vital relationship between the health of soil, plants, animals and people. In practice, this means helping people connect – with each other, and with nature. We bridge diverse knowledge and skills, finding and testing solutions on the ground, using learnings to campaign for positive change, and providing support for communities to better care for each other. We operate in a number of landscapes to get a full view of the sectors we work in, and understand the factors that influence change in these spheres – including financial markets.

The Charles Plater Trust

The Scott Trust Endowment Ltd

The Scott Trust Endowment Ltd (STEL) is a diversified portfolio that exists to secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity by adopting a long-term investment strategy. The endowment takes a proactive stance to responsible investing, believing that sustainable, long-term returns are dependent on well-functioning, well-governed, social, environmental and economic systems. STEL is particularly focused on engagement to address the risks from climate change and threats to nature, and on improving diversity, equity and inclusion both in the investment industry and in the impact of underlying investments. It was among the first to divest its fossil fuel investments and has since acted as a cornerstone for funds investing in solutions that support a low-carbon economy.

Tobacco Free Portfolios

Tobacco Free Portfolios is a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to inform, prioritise and advance tobacco-free finance by encouraging financial institutions to reflect on and reconsider commercial relationships with the tobacco industry and thereby aid decisions to exclude tobacco from investment, lending and insurance activities.

Tomorrows Company

Tomorrow's Company is an independent, non-profit think tank that inspires and enables business to be a force for good in society.

Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)

Pension fund

VBDO (De Vereniging van Beleggers voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling)

WWF - UK

WWF is the world’s leading independent conservation organisation. Our mission is to create a world where people and wildlife can thrive together.

World Health Innovation Summit

The World Health Innovation Summit (WHIS) platform for sustainable development

Zoological Society of London

We’re ZSL (Zoological Society of London), an international conservation charity, and our vision is a world where wildlife thrives. We’re working every day to achieve this, through our science, our field conservation around the world and engaging millions of people through our two Zoos, ZSL London and ZSL Whipsnade Zoos.

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Amnesty International UK

Arun Kelshiker

Association of Member Nominated Trustees (AMNT)

Barrow Cadbury Trust

Big Issue Invest

Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Brunel Pension Partnership Ltd

CDP

Charity Finance Group

Chesnara Plc

Church Commissioners

Church of England Pensions Board

Co-operative Group Limited

Council Of Lutheran Churches

Cushon Group Ltd

Diocese of Westminster

Dolphin Living

East Sussex Pension Fund

Environmental Industries Commission, The

Ethex

Finance Innovation Lab

Finance Innovation Lab

Forum per la Finanza Sostenibile (ItaSIF)

Friends Provident Foundation

Global Canopy

Global Child Forum

Global Returns Project

Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

JustShare

Koru Impact Solutions

LGPS Central

Lendology CIC

Merseyside Pension Fund

Mustardseed Trust

Oxfam

Pension Protection Fund

People's Partnership

Philanthropy Impact

Phoenix Group

Planet Tracker

Railpen

Responsible Finance

Responsible Investment Association (Canada)

Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA)

Royal London Group

Scottish Widows

ShareAction

Social Value UK

Soil Association

The Charles Plater Trust

The Scott Trust Endowment Ltd

Tobacco Free Portfolios

Tomorrows Company

Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)

VBDO (De Vereniging van Beleggers voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling)

WWF - UK

World Health Innovation Summit

Zoological Society of London

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