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We are all set up and ready to go for Highways UK tomorrow. What you can learn and do at the Thrive stand: ◾ Learn about the latest trends and benchmarks in social value ◾ Get advice from social value experts ◾ Ask questions ◾ Clarify anything that's still unclear How YOU can benefit from visiting Thrive at Highways UK: ◾#Bid Professionals: Learn how Thrive can help you win more bids. ◾#CSR, #ESG and #SocialValue professionals: Learn how Thrive can help you deliver on your social value commitments. ◾ Managers and Executives: Learn how Thrive can help you improve company culture, win more bids, and deliver real impact. See you tomorrow and Thursday at stand 74! Register for free tickets here: https://lnkd.in/ganrXMyz Discover how Thrive can help you to capture, measure, and amplify your social value with engaging dashboards and social value reports at Highways UK! Chris Cree◾Dylan Edgar ◾ Neil Macdonald ◾ Christopher Lunt ◾ Mark Batley ◾Claire Torrens #HUK24 #highwaysuk #nationalhighways #socialimpact

💥 While we're busy ending 2024 with a bang, we’re also taking the time to reflect on our mission and our achievements at Viability in 2024. 🚀 Our feature in The Times managed to capture both. 🏡 It was an exciting opportunity to revisit our motivations to tackle the housing crisis sustainably, and to put our solution in context of the current state of housebuilding regulations in the UK, through the lens of data and analysis. 🤸 As we’ve mentioned before, we believe a certain degree of flexibility is needed in regulations to allow projects to be viable: if the requirements render sites unviable then no homes will be delivered at all, be it market or affordable. Building more affordable housing is critical and more flexible policy might be one of the ways to achieve this. We’re very pleased to have featured in such an influential newspaper on such an important topic. 📰 🤓 If you haven't had a chance to read it yet then head to the article on our website, linked in the comments, or find us on the Times website! #affordablehousing #viability #housingcrisis #sustainability

A really good event at the Affordable Housing Conference (#LDEaffordable) today, brilliantly chaired by Helen Collins. Some excellent speakers, particularly the investor panels and Sue Edmonds (formerly Coulson) from Capital Letters talking about the dire straits of Temporary Accommodation and looking at some of the solutions coming to the market place at the moment. My take aways were 1) Temporary Accommodation is the number one issue to urgently tackle 2) We need more FPRPs in the sector bringing more innovation 3) There is a new, more flexible wall of institutional capital ready to invest in affordable housing 4) Local Authorities need to innovate (even a suggestion they should be more entrepreneurial, can you believe!!) 5) 90% of RPs are priorotising the upgrading of their existing stock over development of new stock I am looking forward to speaking at the #housing151 conference tomorrow on innovative financial models to tackle the housing crisis. I have every expectation that we will have another stimulating day of debate, and collectively move closer to finding sustainable solutions to our housing (especially TA) crisis. See you tomorrow! #SimplyPhi #ImpactInvesting #AffordableHousing

🚀 Calling all Business Leaders! 🚀 Got 3 mins? Your insights could spark a digital revolution! Dive into our quick survey and fuel the change. 🌐💡 ✨ Why? Your voice shapes our digital future. ✨ 💥 Impact? Real support tailored for YOUR business growth. 💥 Be the change. Let’s innovate together. Start here: https://lnkd.in/ef3EbHfA #DigitalLeap #DigitalInnovation #ShapeTheFuture”

Highways UK Day 1 is open! What you can learn and do at the Thrive stand: ◾ Learn about the latest trends and benchmarks in social value ◾ Get advice from social value experts ◾ Ask questions ◾ Clarify anything that's still unclear How YOU can benefit from visiting Thrive at Highways UK: ◾#Bid Professionals: Learn how Thrive can help you win more bids. ◾#CSR, #ESG and #SocialValue professionals: Learn how Thrive can help you deliver on your social value commitments. ◾ Managers and Executives: Learn how Thrive can help you improve company culture, win more bids, and deliver real impact. We are at stand 74! Discover how Thrive can help you to capture, measure, and amplify your social value with engaging dashboards and social value reports at Highways UK! Chris Cree◾Dylan Edgar ◾ Neil Macdonald ◾ Christopher Lunt ◾ Mark Batley ◾Claire Torrens #HUK24 #highwaysuk #nationalhighways #socialimpact

Collaborative social finance models, such as blended capital funds, are key to advancing funding solutions for sustainable, resilient and affordable urban development. These models can help communities address critical housing, transit and infrastructure needs. Tomorrow, at the Sustainable Finance Forum, our CEO Andrea Nemtin (M.S.M.), will lead a conversation titled Canada’s cities can address the housing and climate crises through innovative solutions: Blended capital approaches to financing vibrant, adaptive, green, and affordable urban communities. This panel will gather leaders from finance, government, and public-private partnerships to discuss innovative models for financing cities that are resilient, sustainable, and affordable. Learn more about our work in the Hamilton Transit Oriented Affordable Housing Lab https://lnkd.in/gxUY-YUb #Socinn #AffordableHousing #TOD #SustainableFinance #SocialFinance  #CdnPoli  #FinanceLeaders #EnvironmentalImpact #FinanceForGood #ImpactInvesting #SustainableFinanceForum2024 #SFF2024Ottawa #CollaborativeInnovation

Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust PLC Co-Managers, Ben Ritchie and Rebecca Maclean, recently joined Gavin Lumsden from Citywire to talk about the Trust. Ben and Rebecca outlined the Trust's main points of differentiation which include; it's strong heritage as the oldest Investment Trust in Scotland, the focus on total return, integrated sustainability, active positioning, and resilient income delivery. They also shared an outlook, before diving into a Q&A session. Capital at risk. Watch here: https://ow.ly/7byi50UjO1q #DIG #Citywire

Good article by Stuart Patrick CBE in The Herald Scotland My position is until we see more businesses locating to Glasgow the demise will continue. It is the same story for towns in Central and West Coast. Glasgow’s demise started long ago when the financial services sector moved the “High Value” jobs and wealth creation to Edinburgh. The city then had an influx of call centres opening up but now closing or changing model due to home working. When speaking to the large companies in Glasgow who have invested millions in new builds their cry is skills and home working and infrastructure issues( getting to work). Much of the city centre employment is from public sector, again the working from home results in low footfall. A total rethink on policy across the economy is required that is fit for purpose. Let’s face it, there has been 3 economic battles since 2008 with NO government creating the bottom up policy to secure a future for our people. Both governments have spent far too long ramping up ideology policy which in turn has wasted parliament time and the cost passed to us. The Battles:- 1. The great financial recession of 2008. This left a legacy of housing issues.The 2005-2008 economy was built on a new age of quick fix greedy developers of no fixed abode and so called investors who left a sub prime mortgage debacle we are all still paying for. Huge shortage of affordable homes is the result of this failure on policy accompanied by planning and quango’s paper pushing that delays house building. This accompanied by the loss of SME independent house builders and financial institutions failure to support brownfield site regeneration as their margin call too expensive has left a legacy of housing policy failure across Scotland. 2. COVID19 No government has created policy fit for purpose to deal with the aftermath of this battle. Again businesses are failing as there were no tangible big thinking policies to deal with the crisis in the city centre affecting housing,digital retailing and social economy. 3. Net Zero Target. Yip we need to save the planet but again a government who allocates £500m for “Active Travel”over 5 years to the detriment of putting a roof over a child’s head needs to really rethink their policy. https://lnkd.in/eW4ySAie It is time the Scottish Government stopped following the leader game of Westminster on Net Zero and created robust policy to save our communities first and foremost. The Swinney and Forbes administration should now seize their moment in time to clear the decks get ride of the dead wood policies and make the decisions that will lay a foundation of #Hope for our people. They should also support Glasgow City Council by appointing an independent tsar and task force to save the City I Love❤️. https://lnkd.in/ed3NrnQK

Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust PLC Co-Managers, Ben Ritchie and Rebecca Maclean, recently joined Gavin Lumsden from Citywire to talk about the Trust. Ben and Rebecca outlined the Trust's main points of differentiation which include; it's strong heritage as the oldest Investment Trust in Scotland, the focus on total return, integrated sustainability, active positioning, and resilient income delivery. They also shared an outlook, before diving into a Q&A session. Capital at risk. Watch here: https://ow.ly/7byi50UjO1q #DIG #Citywire

Following a successful Australia roadshow with Lidia Tomova and Adam Willis, #DWSInfrastructure’s Scott Auty visiting from the London office, commented on how much he enjoyed speaking at The Inside Network ‘Waking up to Portfolio Differentiators’ breakfast held in Melbourne. Scott's discussion on DWS’ approach to providing growth capital to small to mid-cap infrastructure companies resonated very well with the sophisticated Australian wealth investor base both in light of its attractive entry points and as a compliment to more traditional core infrastructure. Scott’s visit to Australia took place in Sydney and Melbourne focused on the unique characteristics of DWS’ sustainable growth, European-focused infrastructure strategy. Lidia Tomova, Adam Willis. Alice Miles, Andrew Kalopedis, Vanessa Wang, Hamish Mackenzie, Koichiro Maeda #DWSInfrastructure #EnergyTransition #digitalisation #circulareconomy ➡️ Learn more by downloading DWS' Infrastructure Strategic Outlook on how small to mid-market may present good value (Pg13): http://dws.co/60474NxeV (Please validate as an institutional or professional investor via our Global English site for a smoother journey) For wholesale and professional investors only.