Better Society Capital

Who we are

Better Society Capital is the UK's leading social impact-led investor, our mission is to grow the amount of money invested in tackling social issues and inequalities in the UK.

We do this by investing ourselves and enabling others to invest for impact too. Since 2011, we have helped the social impact investment market grow twelve-fold to over £10 billion. This capital has financed social purpose organisations tackling everything from homelessness to mental health and fuel poverty.

Working with expert partners, we seek to understand people’s needs first. Then, using our knowledge and capital, we collaborate and invest with fund managers who also want to create a better, sustainable future.

They, and the social enterprises and charities they invest in, create the impact. Our role is to bring the most relevant experts from our network to the table, generating ideas and connecting capital to where it’s most needed.

Our culture and values

We exist to make a difference: to help create a fair society by improving the lives of people in the UK through investment.

We work with expert partners, seeking to understand the issues, design and deliver investments and grow market participation, enabling a systemic and sustained impact to improve the lives of people in the UK.

We assess our investments on the social impact they will have and the financial returns they will generate. We also look at how they will help to build social impact investment in the UK and bring about changes to the system that can often make tackling social issues feel hard to address.

We work to create an environment which makes social impact investment easier and more effective. We can do this in a few ways...

1. Find partners to take the first catalytic steps, through capital, expertise, grants or networks.
    
2. Develop successful ideas from inception and grow them to the next stage, through further investment.
    
3. Develop other sources of capital, encourage replication and influence policy to help ideas succeed beyond Better Society Capital’s investment.

Our values

Underpinning our approach is our organisational culture that shapes all our work. Our values articulate the culture we seek to create, and encapsulate a number of behaviours and attitudes we feel are necessary to live up to our purpose.

• Purposeful

  We are passionate and energetic in our work to bring about our long-term vision of a thriving social investment market that enables positive social impact.
   

• Pioneering Spirit

  We give our team the autonomy and flexibility to be entrepreneurial and creative. We have the courage to push boundaries and a restless drive for change.
   

• Openness

  We listen, learn, experiment and collaborate. And we are adaptive and flexible in responding to what we learn.
   

• Rigorous

  We take a rigorous approach in all we do. We expect the highest standards and continually strive for excellence.
   

• Respectful

  We are genuine in both our approach and aspiration. We value each member of our team and our partners for what they bring.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds

While embracing diversity, we promote equality of opportunity and eliminate unlawful discrimination. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, black, indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC), LGBT+ and non-binary candidates and those with disabilities.

We are a Disability Confident employer

We want every colleague to be able to deliver their work with dignity, equality, comfort and independence. Our office is fully accessible with step-free access and an open-plan set up. We are open to accommodation requests regarding assistive technologies, accessibility tools, flexible working or any other reasonable adjustments that will make working or visiting here more accessible for you. As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview for all candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the job.