The ability to work across the group’s three entities reflects, in microcosm, the way different sectors as a whole need to work together to move blended finance into the mainstream.
Collington Capital values deep, aligned partnerships across the impact investing ecosystem, building communities of practice, sharing learning and research, and collaborating to achieve a shared vision.
The firm looks forward to welcoming others from financial services and the social sector with a similar commitment to creating a world in which capital markets drive social impact.
Collington Capital builds partnerships and connections across the impact investment chain:
Collington Capital works with grantors and donors to identify and advise them on opportunities, aligned with their impact goals, to move beyond grant making to impact investment, thereby scaling their impact (“Impact Advisory”). It also partners with grantors and donors to conceive, develop and launch pioneering blended finance impact investment propositions which enable philanthropic funding to catalyse concessionary and commercial investment capital into impact-led enterprises, thereby increasing the impact of the philanthropic funding (“Impact Solutions”).
Collington Capital helps investors to develop the frameworks and tools which will enable them to integrate impact into their investment strategy and process (“Impact Advisory“) and acts as an originating partner assisting investors to deploy capital optimally by identifying impact investment opportunities which match their investment strategy, ranging from ‘finance first’ investors seeking a market-rate return, to ‘impact first’ investors prepared to accept a concessionary return (“Capital Placement“, “Scaling Impact” and “Impact Solutions“).
Collington Capital raises commercial and concessionary investment capital from professional investors in the United Kingdom for managers of impact funds. The team builds long-term relationships connecting professional investors with a curated group of emerging and established impact fund managers, in frontier and emerging markets, across a range of strategies aligned with Collington Capital’s own impact goals. The firm advises on designing, structuring and marketing the impact aspects of new funds. (“Impact Advisory” and “Capital Placement”). It also advises fund managers on strategies for integrating impact investment into their offering and on managing, measuring and reporting on impact (“Impact Advisory”).
Collington Capital enables impact-led enterprises to access new sources of impact capital, often from a combination of philanthropic funding and impact investment. The work involves building their impact investment readiness, creating financial and impact models and developing blueprints for deliverable and compelling high-level impact investment propositions. Collington Capital market-tests and then refines these investment propositions and structures the investment vehicles. The group then raises grant funding and investment capital often transforming the original funding model of the impact-led enterprise (“Scaling Impact”).