Greater London, England, United Kingdom
In 2010 I founded Alquity, a leading Responsible investment business, that has changed how people think about investment forever. Alquity is the new model of investment management. We deliver attractive returns, through responsible investment and then donate a minimum of 10% of our revenue back to the poorest in the communities within which we invest. In this way we help build up the communities we invest in which in turn helps drive our investments.
Alquity represents the coming together of Altruism and Equity. Alquity offers funds that deliver the full commercial return to investors, looks to enhance those returns through an ESG investment process and then gives back to the community via a donation from the management fee, there by doing good without any negative effect on the investors returns.
Global Ethics is a world leading ethical goods business. We sell products under the 'One' brand where 100% of the profits fund like for like projects in developing countries. So One water profits fund clean drinking water in Africa, one soap and toilet roll fund clean sanitation products, and so on. To date we have donated over GBP 10 million which has transformed the lives of over 2m people.
The One Foundation is a UK registered charity, working with communities in Africa to address the most pressing humanitarian needs, such as clean drinking water, nutrition and sanitation. The vast majority of donations come from The Global Ethics Group, and its innovative ethical business approach – selling products and services to market where the profits are used to fund like-for-like projects, eg. profits from bottled water sales for innovative water projects, such as Playpump® water systems, profits from toilet roll and soap sales fund sanitation products. We aim to focus our efforts where the need is greatest and where we can have the most impact; to positively change lives in some of the poorest communities in Africa by providing some of the basics: To-date, The One Foundation has raised £5m and changed the lives of well over a million people: 600+ PlayPumps installed, giving free, clean water to over a million African school children 4,000+ people benefit from vegetable gardens 12,000+ people have been tested for HIV and counselled 1,000+ children in Malawi have improved sanitation.