2. Sustainable Development Goals

How we’re doing this

Sustainable Development Goals

We link each of our social investments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) they are contributing to. Each social investment has a primary SDG, and up to two secondary SDGs. This helps us understand the impact being targeted and communicate this clearly to a wider audience.

We are part of an ecosystem of other social investors, charities and social enterprises with whom we collaborate, share learning, and learn from. The SDGs act as a common language to help communicate our priorities and where we are funding. This aids sharing our learning in a broader context, and identifies partners and collaborators who are working towards the same goals.

The SDGs our investments contribute towards

Figure 1 shows the eight SDGs that our strategy-aligned investments are working towards. Strategy-aligned investments refers to the 62% social investments (by value) that are contributing towards the three aims of our strategy. The remaining 38% were made under our previous strategy and do not align with our new approach.