Thank you to everyone who attended our event last night ‘Taking Place Based Impact Investment To The Next Level’.
A huge thank you to our keynote speakers, Sarah Gordon and Anna Shiel, and our panellists Mehjabeen Patrick, Tony Dyer, Stephen Peacock, Sado Jirde and Mark Pepper for a fascinating discussion, plus the impromptu pitch from one of City Funds' investees, Dominic Mills of Yuup. We're very grateful to Osborne Clarke for providing us with such a fantastic venue, facilities and food.
For anyone unable to attend, we'll be sharing a recording of the event in the next week or so.
In the meantime some key takeaways from the event are:
- Bringing different parties together and understanding their different needs is the foundation for success in place-based investment, and partnerships that are based on understanding, collaboration and a shared purpose are more likely to be successful.
- Facilitating a bridge between investment expertise and local knowledge is where the magic happens, and these types of investments cannot succeed without both.
- There are many people, from different backgrounds and across varying roles, that care about the success of the South West and want to see it thrive. Looking at people as an asset rather than an obstacle can help solve shared problems.
- There is a huge demand for investment in the South West, and there is opportunity and scope to scale impact investment in the region.
And finally, if you weren't in the room, we announced that we will now be known simply as BBRC, to reflect that our work in impact investment spans across the South West.
