Investments

Our priority areas

Healthcare

Improving the health of children and families and ensuring children no longer die of preventative illnesses

Health tech innovations
Mental health enterprises
Disability access and support enterprises

Education

Greater access to quality education; ensuring that girls and boys learn in safe and positive environments, from an early age.

Education technology and e-learning
Vocational education
Education in emergencies

Child Protection

Ensuring children are safe at all times, and preventing their exposure to abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence

Child-safe organisations
Gender-based and family violence enterprises
Child-labour-free supply chains

Related Themes

Building the economic capacity and the organisations and infrastructure needed to enable social impact and/or social mobility.

Climate Change
Financial Inclusion
Emergency Preparedness and Response

Investment Principles

Our Investment Mission

To source, fund and assist businesses that make an enormous positive impact on children’s lives
To accelerate solutions to some of the world’s most complex problems, whilst helping entrepreneurs and start-ups grow.

Our Investment Objectives

To generate income, capital returns and deep social impact from investing in enterprises that are working to improve the lives of vulnerable children and their families
Providing patient and flexible capital
Investing in companies operating in fields where Save the Children has deep expertise and practical experience, so we can support solutions to scale.

For investors

Our investors include institutionals, family offices, and foundations. We are proud that they believe in us and our mission of delivering innovation for children at commercial returns.

For ventures

Our ventures span the globe and focus on impact first. Find out more about who we’ve supported and what we look for in an organisation.