Invitation to Tender: Impact Investment deep dive on sustainable food and agriculture

Ecological Land Cooperative

22 February 2024

We're looking for a provider to develop a practical resource for impact investors, assessing the investment opportunity both through funds and direct, across sub-themes, which align with the theme of sustainable food and agriculture.

In 2021, we established a £10m funding allocation for impact investing to test the potential for achieving financial returns by investing into impact funds that align to our impact goals and which generate a measurement impact.

We want to develop our impact investing work on this further by taking a thematic approach: researching a sector or theme through a deep dive and then selecting and carrying out diligence on leading funds and companies working in that area. In this pilot project, we are testing the hypothesis that by open sourcing the deep dives and focusing on their practical application, there is an opportunity to strengthen and grow thematic impact investing.

Our first deep dive will focus on sustainable food and agriculture, closely linked to our sustainable and ethical food impact goal under our aim, Our Natural World.

What we're looking for

We are open to proposals from organisations or individual consultants with:

  • Knowledge of impact/thematic investing
  • Knowledge of sustainable food and agriculture
  • Relevant and demonstrable experience of research methodologies e.g. devising and delivering analytical research.
  • Strong communication skills, including listening and questioning, and the ability to communicate information to a non-technical audience, both verbally and in writing
  • Analytical and interpretation skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Creativity and flexibility to respond to issues quickly and adjust the approach to or style of delivery
  • Commitment to our values and taking a values-based approach to research

We expect the work to be around 25 days over a couple of months and to start at the end of March 2024. The total budget for this project is £20,000 including VAT and/or tax liabilities of the provider.

Sending your proposal

If you're interested in tendering for this project, please:

The closing date for proposals is: 13 March 2024.

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