Our Purpose

Building Better Businesses

At YFM Equity Partners, our purpose is to empower ambitious businesses to grow, innovate, and create long-term value. We provide more than just capital, we offer strategic partnership, expertise, and hands-on support to help businesses unlock their full potential.

Our building better businesses framework

We believe good businesses grow our economy, improve our society, value people and protect our environment.

To deliver on our mission, and to meet our commitments as signatories to the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), YFM has defined four broad topics that we believe good businesses should be focussed on.

Grow Our Economy

Through our investing activity, foster sustainable & inclusive growth that has a positive impact on our economy.

Value Our People

Creating a positive and inclusive culture, supporting people to realise their potential in our portfolio companies.

Improve our society

Making a positive contribution to our communities and their stakeholders, in areas we are passionate about and can make a difference.

In a sustainable way

Taking tangible action to reduce our impact on the environment. Enabling our portfolio to reduce their environmental impact and set targets to reduce carbon emissions over time.

Responsible Investing

Our latest Responsible Investing report highlights our continued commitment to integrating ESG factors throughout YFM and our portfolio.

Read latest Report Responsible Investment Policy

Our Portfolio In Action

In addition to reducing the impact on the environment we believe that adopting commercially sustainable practices can enhance long term resilience to a business model and therefore create enhanced equity value. YFM’s 2024 portfolio data based on the Key Performance Indicators that we track:

~865

jobs created from date of investment to 2024.

£125m

of exports

71%

conduct formal employee engagement surveys.

68%

supported charities during the year.

ESG Initiatives

Leading By Example

We believe we should set an example to our portfolio by making continuous improvements to our own ESG performance. At the heart of our culture is “One YFM”, which embodies our inclusivity and collaboration. It means coming together as a team to make a positive impact on our investments, people, and society. Giving back to the community is a big part of who we are. We are proud to help create a greener, more sustainable future.

Giving back

In the past year we have given over £63,000 through donations and fundraising to 13 charities.

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