Mobilise purpose-driven capital
Attract investment. Unlock enduring renewal.
We connect pioneering place leaders with patient, purpose-driven impact investors to deliver both positive social and environmental benefits and financial returns.
The UK's impact economy is a powerful and growing force, stewarding capital valued at £106 billion and expanding annually. Yet, communities with the greatest need for investment are often the last to access it, entrenching inequalities and stifling local potential. We work at the intersection of local government, communities, and investors (UK and global) to raise awareness, build capability, and structure opportunities that attract this purpose-driven capital, enabling effective collaborations.
How we help:
Develop an impact capital strategy: We help you to understand the range of impact investment models available and how to develop strategies to attract patient, long-term capital from a blend of institutional and grassroots sources.
Structure investable propositions: We provide practical support to identify, test, and develop specific investment opportunities—from health services to housing retrofit, business support to community energy projects—and align them to the most suitable sources of capital.
Bridge the investment gap: We support you in building an investment-ready pipeline of projects, giving both institutional and community investors the confidence to engage, delivering both financial returns and measurable social impact.
Build international partnerships: We help you present a clear, joined-up offer to overseas investors, universities and cultural partners, and prepare for the conversations that follow.
Your partner in a changing landscape
As devolution puts more power in local hands, strategic authorities and other local leaders are uniquely positioned to simplify investment processes and align with national industrial strategies.
We provide the insight and experience to navigate this evolving landscape, ensuring you can design collaborative and inclusive governance that connects local priorities with the capital required to achieve them.
Track record
We helped write the national case for mobilising the impact economy, and we work with places to put it into practice.
Recurve's founder, Sam Markey, was lead author of the Social Impact Investment Advisory Group's final report, Mobilising the impact economy as partners in national renewal, and wrote Place-Based Impact Investing: Ambition to Action for the Impact Investing Institute.
Recurve has a strategic partnership with the Impact Investing Institute to equip place leaders with the frameworks and tools to make place-based impact investing part of their policy toolkit.
“Working with Sam helped us to achieve greater clarity of purpose and shared vision, catalysing meaningful collaboration between our partners.”
Expanding the resources available for local renewal
Route one
Impact capital at home
Philanthropists, social investors and purpose-led businesses want to back local priorities. Places that act as co-funders, with a mobilisation mindset in place of a scarcity mindset, are the ones that crowd this capital in. Our programmes build that capability, from a first workshop to a pipeline of investable opportunities.
With the Impact Investing Institute
Mobilise
An applied learning journey that gives you and your place partners the knowledge, practical tools and connections to engage purpose-driven investors in realising your local priorities.
- Inspiration: a workshop with your key stakeholders and a readiness diagnostic, ending in an action plan
- Empowerment: a prioritised pipeline of impact capital opportunities, each with a named owner
- Mobilisation: testing and developing the priorities, with introductions to suitable impact investors and technical experts
If impact capital is already your priority, Mobilise takes you straight there. If you would like to look across spending, capital and partnerships first, start with Recurve Discovery.
With the Impact Economy Collective
Impact for Places Academy
A national programme of cohort-based learning and action for senior leaders in mayoral strategic authorities, local authorities and anchor institutions, developed and delivered in partnership with the Impact Economy Collective.
- Technical fluency: the full ecosystem of capital, from philanthropy to institutional investment
- New allies: masterclasses, roundtables and introductions to leading impact investors and philanthropists
- Applied learning: practical skills to move from a scarcity mindset to crowding in new resources
- A mobilisation strategy: co-created for how your place will partner with the impact economy
Route two
Global capital and partnerships
Investors are weighing the UK cautiously. Interest rates and national policy sit outside a place's control. What a place controls is how it shows up: a clear account of what it offers, institutions that speak with one voice, and partnerships that reach into research and culture as well as investment.
With Acacias Capital
UK–LatAm Investment Bridge
Latin American family offices and purposeful investors are looking for UK places to back. The Bridge prepares a founding cohort of UK places and universities to meet them.
- Readiness: a clear, investable account of your place
- Introductions: time with a Latin American investor delegation
- Peers: a founding cohort of UK places learning together
From the Commission for Devolution Diplomacy
Local Power, Global Reach
A practical toolkit for UK places on organising for international investment, research and cultural partnerships, publishing this autumn.
- Six strands of sub-national diplomacy, with worked examples
- A free two-minute check of where your place stands today
- Follow-up support: a free 30-minute call or a fixed-price readiness review
Read more on capital partnerships
All insights
A renaissance in impact capital is restoring agency to local areas, tackling the barriers to participation and productivity in pursuit of inclusive growth
Connect with our expert team
The challenges facing place leaders are complex, but the path to renewal starts with a conversation.
Let’s discuss how we can help you to attract impact capital and turn your ambitions into reality.