Allia Impact has officially launched Business for Impact, a new national community bringing together founders, businesses, investors, universities, charities and policymakers committed to creating positive social, environmental and economic impact.
The launch event, hosted at Linklaters in London, welcomed leaders from across the UK’s impact ecosystem for an evening of discussion, collaboration and connection.
The event featured keynote contributions from Martin Clark, CEO of Allia Impact, Umesh Kumar, CEO Designate of Allia Impact, and The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Social Security and Disability. Guests also heard from an expert panel exploring the future of the UK’s impact economy, alongside founders from the Business for Impact community sharing their own entrepreneurial journeys.
Business for Impact has been created to address one of the biggest challenges facing mission-led organisations: connection.
While the UK is home to a growing number of businesses creating positive impact, opportunities to collaborate across sectors can often be fragmented. Business for Impact aims to bring together the organisations, expertise and networks needed to help mission-led businesses start, grow and scale.
The community will connect entrepreneurs with investors, businesses with innovators, universities with industry, and organisations across the public, private and voluntary sectors around a shared ambition to grow the UK’s impact economy.
Speaking at the launch, Umesh Kumar, CEO Designate of Allia Impact, said:
“The launch follows the publication of The Impact Business Tipping Point, a landmark report produced by Allia Impact in partnership with Beauhurst Insights, which identified more than 151,000 mission-led businesses operating across the UK and highlighted the growing scale and significance of the impact economy.
Business for Impact builds on that momentum by creating an ongoing community where organisations can collaborate, share expertise and accelerate positive social, environmental and economic impact”.
Martin Clark, CEO of Allia Impact, said:
“For more than 25 years, Allia has supported entrepreneurs creating solutions to society’s biggest challenges. Business for Impact is the natural next step. It creates a space where organisations can come together, learn from one another and build the partnerships needed to create lasting impact.”
Business for Impact is now open to organisations and individuals who share its ambition of building a more connected impact economy.