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Aligning our Endowment and our Mission

We are changing the way we manage the Millennium Awards Trust (MAT) - our founding £100 million endowment - so that how we invest better reflects our mission and values.

By George Jenkins, Communications Officer

Working with Cazenove Capital, we will pursue responsible investment practices across the portfolio, along with targeted impact investments in areas such as renewable energy, healthcare, and affordable housing.

Our CEO Mark Norbury and trustee and chair of our Investment Committee Jamie Broderick (pictured here) explained how we are changing our investment approach in Charity Finance magazine.

This transition is underpinned by a newly updated investment policy, part of which states:

"The Trustee believes that responsible investment should go beyond exclusions and would expect delegated asset managers to seek to generate positive societal impact through active engagement with companies' management teams in order to pressure and/or guide them to improve their business practices across a spectrum of social and environmental issues.”

The full story is covered by Civil Society Media Ltd’s Charity Finance article below.