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How should charities invest? Our submission to the Charity Commission
Read moreWe responded to the Charity Commission’s recent consultation on responsible investment guidance, making three key points: We support the shift away from “maximising financial returns” as the de facto goal of investment and call...
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Investing beyond the growth paradigm: How charity investors can shift investment practice into humanity’s safe and just operating space.
Read moreIncreasing numbers of citizens, cities and countries are building alternatives to a model which has had its day. From Wales to Amsterdam and Costa Rica, people are recognising that our approach to economic growth is incompatible with a...
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Investor action on free school meals
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More than 1.9 million UK children did not have enough food during 2020 and 30% of adults are concerned that they will not be able to provide for themselves or their family, according to the Trussell Trust and Social Market Foundation. Images...
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Charities support an upgrade of responsible investment guidance
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We are among 12 charities which have written to the Charity Commission to support its review of responsible investment practices in the sector, and encourage it to progress a landmark legal case on trustee investment duties. This follows our...
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Climate breakdown: raising the bar for company directors
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We co-signed a submission by ShareAction - one of our grantees - calling for a more ambitious use of shareholder voting powers to drive action on climate change at companies. The submission responds to a consultation by Institutional...
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Charitable endowments: the £68bn elephant in the room
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At the Association of Charitable Foundation’s 2019 conference, ‘Funding on a Finite Planet’, its Chief Executive Carol Mack asked: “Are we ignoring the 68 billion elephants in the room – our £68 billion pounds worth of endowments? A...
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‘Ambition’ is not enough. Investors must vote for action at Barclays’s AGM
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Lankelly Chase is one of 11 institutional investors, and over 100 individuals, which have co-filed a shareholder resolution at Barclays’s Annual General Meeting in May 2020. If passed by at least 75% of investors who vote, our resolution would...
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Investing in a just response to COVID-19
Read moreLike many charities and philanthropic funders, Lankelly Chase is committed to supporting our partners and others as we respond collectively to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve signed a joint funder statement and will continue to...
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Action on climate change at Barclays AGM
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Lankelly Chase takes action on climate change at Barclays’s AGM Lankelly Chase is one of 11 institutional investors and more than 100 individual shareholders which have taken action today at Barclays by asking the bank to phase out...
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Hard Edges
Read more12 stories. All from people who live on the hard edges of society. All from people who have faced hardship so extreme, you listen and can’t help to wonder how they are sitting in front of you today. All with aspirations. All with grievances....