esg with impact
We ensure that the investments we make today will have a positive effect on people and the planet in years to come.
committed to responsible investing WE BUILD RESPONSIBLE, ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES INTO EVERYTHING WE DO, LINKED TO OUR VALUES
We have a proud history of thinking, behaving and investing responsibly. Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Policy explains how we do this. This includes how we can help drive impact in the counterparties we invest through and the companies we invest in. Our policy also explains how we consider the principal adverse impacts of investment decisions on sustainability factors, aligned to the SFDR.
ESG continues to be a major focus for Pollen Street as we embed responsibility, ethical behaviour and sustainability into our investing, operations and culture, with a large focus on the impact we can have.
We are signatories of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. We use the UN Sustainable Development Goals to ensure all investments meet minimum standards, while seeking to make the most significant impact for our investors.
Blue Ventures
Blue Ventures develops transformative approaches for catalysing and sustaining locally led marine conservation.
Blue Ventures
Blue Ventures develops transformative approaches for catalysing and sustaining locally led marine conservation. They work in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies, and are committed to protecting marine biodiversity in ways that benefit coastal people.
How we help: Pollen Street is working with Blue Ventures to help them assess their strategy to expand and leverage their impact in local markets for Blue Carbon products relating to their transformational work in locally led mangrove conservation.
Future First
Future First aims for every state school and college in the UK to be supported by a thriving and engaged alumni community.
Future First
Future First is a charity that aims for every state school and college in the UK to be supported by a thriving and engaged alumni community, which improves students’ motivation, confidence and life chances.
How we help: Pollen Street has undertaken a strategic review of the Future First operating model. This entailed developing a framework to explore and evaluate the future model options identified as part of brainstorming exercises. Pollen Street is now working with the charity to develop their technology roadmap and identify relevant digital solutions.
Big Issue
Big Issue Invest creates opportunity by financing the growth of sustainable social enterprises and charities across the UK.
Big Issue
Founded in 2005, Big Issue Invest extends The Big Issue’s mission to dismantle poverty through creating opportunity by financing the growth of sustainable social enterprises and charities across the UK.
Big Issue Invest offers social enterprises, charities and profit-with- purpose businesses, loans and investment from £20,000 to £3 million. Since 2005, Big Issue Invest has invested in approximately 300 social enterprises and charities, all of which have positively influenced the lives of an estimated 1 million people across the UK.
How we help: Pollen Street is working with Big Issue Invest on a number of business improvement opportunities including Digital Transformation, SME lending, Financial Inclusion and helping the vulnerable, Fundraising and Governance.
The Council for Investing in Female Entrepreneurs
CfIFE aims to support female entrepreneurs by tackling barriers to funding available and accessible by them.
The Council for Investing in Female Entrepreneurs
The Council for Investing in Female Entrepreneurs (CfIFE) aims to support female entrepreneurs by tackling barriers to funding available and accessible by them. This initiative was born as a result of the Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship.
How we help: Pollen Street is working with the council to promote greater transparency in UK funding allocation through a new Investing in Female Entrepreneurs Code, and also developing online resources to enable female entrepreneurs to access institutional and private investment
Auditory Verbal UK
Auditory Verbal UK's vision is that all deaf children have the opportunity to listen and speak as equals alongside their hearing peers.
Auditory Verbal UK
Auditory Verbal therapy is a parent coaching programme that equips parents with the skills to maximise their child’s spoken language development.
Advancing hearing technology, along with ever more inclusive candidacy criteria for implantable hearing technologies, has meant that Auditory Verbal UK has been able to deliver effective early intervention to over a thousand deaf babies and children from birth to school age.
Business2Schools
Business2Schools uses donations of unwanted office furniture and technology to improve the infrastructure in schools.
Business2Schools
Business2Schools uses donations of unwanted office furniture and technology to improve the infrastructure in schools and make schools in the UK an even better experience for children and students.
Out Investors
Out Investors runs networking events, speaker series and mentorship programs with LGBT+ investment professionals.
Out Investors LGBT+ Network
Out Investors today is made up of over 50 partner investment organisations spanning private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and other asset managers. Out Investors runs networking events, speaker series and mentorship programs with LGBT+ investment professionals and investment adjacent roles such as portfolio value creation, fund management and investor relations.