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The world’s first social impact bond was launched in the UK in 2010 to cut reoffending among men leaving Peterborough prison. In 2019 the London Stock Exchange brought its green, social and sustainability bonds together in a single market. At County Hall, across the river from Westminster, Sustainable Ventures houses climate tech start-ups. Further along the South Bank, Coin Street Community Builders, born of a residents’ campaign, has managed a 13-acre neighbourhood of co-operative homes, studios and gardens since 1984. Leadership teams see what investors now expect from a company that calls itself sustainable.
In 1977, plans were announced for Europe’s tallest hotel and over a million square feet of offices between Waterloo and Blackfriars bridges. After seven years of campaigning by local residents, Coin Street Community Builders bought the 13-acre site from the Greater London Council in 1984 for £1 million. The social enterprise has since developed four housing co-operatives, from Mulberry (1988) to Iroko (2001), and opened Oxo Tower Wharf to the public in 1996, with over 30 designer-maker studios and 78 co-operative flats. More than three quarters of its income comes from commercial activity, and its profits are reinvested in the neighbourhood.
In 2010, in Peterborough, Social Finance launched the first social impact bond: £5 million from 17 investors, paid according to the fall in reoffending among released prisoners. On 11 October 2019, the London Stock Exchange opened its Sustainable Bond Market together with the Green Economy Mark, for listed companies earning at least 50% of their revenue from the green economy.
Founded in 2011, Sustainable Ventures supports climate and clean-tech start-ups. Since 30 November 2021 it has occupied about 39,000 square feet of County Hall, the former seat of London’s government, on the South Bank opposite Parliament. Its network counts more than 1,000 companies, which have raised £1.2 billion and created over 7,000 jobs.
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