Investing Responsibly
We are committed to supporting our portfolio companies to grow sustainably, helping them to make environmental, social and governance improvements during our partnership, no matter their starting point. Here are some recent highlights from across our portfolio:
This data has been aggregated by LDC and was reported to LDC by our portfolio companies; it is accurate as of December 2024.
Helping our Portfolio to Grow Sustainably
Having strong ESG credentials is important for our portfolio companies; it’s not only the right thing to do but increasingly is a key lever for value creation.
We back ambitious management teams, supporting them to grow their businesses responsibly throughout our period of investment by:
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Conducting ESG due diligence for all new investments, identifying key risks and value creation opportunities.
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Creating a practical, Board-approved action plan that is refreshed annually.
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Capitalising on our scale and experience to deliver impactful projects.
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Hosting regular ESG events and webinars to help keep our portfolio on the front foot.
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Consolidating ESG improvements to create an authentic equity story that maximises exit valuation.
Empowering Youth Ambition
LDC is the leading supporter of young entrepreneurs at The King’s Trust. Through our partnership we’ve developed and launched Business Advance – a UK-wide programme designed to help young business leaders to grow their business during the first three years of trading. We’re committed to helping young people from all walks of life, including disadvantaged communities.
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We have an important role to play at a critical time for the economy. Through our investment activity and portfolio support, we have the ability to positively influence the environmental, social and governance contribution of the businesses we back, which is a responsibility we take seriously.”
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Memberships, Accreditations and Awards
LDC’s partnership with sustainability advisory firm Seismic supports our portfolio companies pursuing B-Corp certification.
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Real Deals, the independent voice of European private equity, named LDC in its Future 40: ESG innovators list, in recognition of our efforts to champion ESG excellence, and in its Future 40: Climate Change Champions list, in recognition of our commitment to sustainable investing.
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LDC is a member of the Initiative Climat International (iCI), a global, practitioner-led community of private markets investors that seek to better understand and reduce carbon emissions in their portfolio.
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LDC’s position as the leading supporter of young entrepreneurs at The King’s Trust was recognised at The King’s Trust Partnership Awards in 2023 where LDC was named ‘Partner of the Year’.
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We are proud to be a committed member of the ESG Data Convergence Initiative (EDCI), an industry-led initiative which aims to streamline the private investment industry’s historically fragmented approach to collecting ESG data and to create a critical mass of meaningful, performance-based, comparable ESG data from private companies.
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We are supporting Level 20 – a not for profit organisation dedicated to gender diversity in private equity. Level 20’s ambition is to inspire women to join the private equity industry and help them succeed. We share this ambition, and we are committed to making this happen at LDC.
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We are supporting the #10000blackinterns programme. The initiative offers internships in financial and professional services to black students across the UK to help kickstart their careers in the sector. We have provided paid summer internships every year since the programme was launched.
We are helping our employees gain the skills and knowledge to integrate ESG into everything that we do across our business and our portfolio. They have all completed The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s online ‘Sustainability Essentials for Business’ course.
Giving Something Back
We support good causes close to the heart of our employees across all of our offices. In 2024, our teams contributed to fundraising and donations totalling £1,188,625 to community causes.
