The Impact of Foresight’s UK Regional Funds

For more than four decades, we have backed ambitious businesses across the UK, helping them grow, create jobs and strengthen local economies. Our mission is simple: to unlock opportunity in regions that have historically been underserved by private capital and to demonstrate that strong commercial returns and positive regional outcomes are mutually reinforcing.

The Good Economy’s assessment provides insights on the principles that have underpinned Foresight’s regional investment model since it was launched in 2015. The findings provide a clear, evidence-based picture of how place-based capital can support business growth, regional prosperity and long-term economic resilience.

The assessment concludes that Foresight’s regional investment strategy is:

• Helping address the UK’s regional inequality
• Deliberately regional and well targeted
• Providing a significant and growing source of jobs
• Supporting places where good jobs are needed
• Generating value for the whole of the UK