Epworth Climate Stewardship Fundfor Charities

The Fund seeks income and capital investment growth over a minimum period of 5 years through investing mainly in UK companies, excluding those with significant exposure to greenhouse gas emissions.

The Fund will tackle the climate emergency and look to have a carbon footprint substantially below (at least 15%) that of the FTSE All Share Index by:

• seeking to invest in companies that will help the transition to a lower carbon economy
• engaging with portfolio companies to encourage more action to reduce the risk of climate change
• excluding companies that extract or refine fossil fuels and those which have a material involvement (e.g. 20% of turnover) with supplying the fossil fuel extractives and refining industries.

We aim to ensure that our portfolios are consistent with the Christian faith. As a result, the Fund will also avoid investment in companies whose business is wholly or mainly involved in alcohol, armaments, gambling, pornography, tar sands, thermal coal and tobacco.

We are stewards of our investors’ capital and seek to use our influence to improve ethical standards by engaging with the management of the businesses we invest in on a wide range of issues, including climate change.