Better Society Capital

Better Society Capital (BSC) is the UK's leading social impact investor and the world's first social investment wholesaler, established in 2012 with a £600m fund seeded from dormant bank accounts. Its mission is to grow the amount of money invested in tackling social issues and inequalities in the UK. BSC operates as a wholesale investor — deploying capital through fund managers, social banks, and intermediaries rather than directly into enterprises — with the explicit goal of mobilising multiples of its own capital from private, institutional, and government sources. Every investment thesis begins with a social problem, not a financial product. BSC's 2026–2030 strategy focuses on four challenge areas: housing, economic opportunity, health, and climate and energy. Its ambition is to mobilise £20–30 billion in capital and positively impact 15–20 million lives over the next decade. It invests in venture capital fund managers who back impact-driven startups, in social lending intermediaries, in social outcomes contracts (outcomes-based government-commissioned programmes), and in social and affordable property funds — channelling capital from pension funds, university endowments, charitable trusts, family offices, and mainstream institutional investors into organisations tackling the UK's most pressing social challenges.