Investments

Complete development of new private secondary school in Oxford.

Ownership of the real estate from 2002-06, completely rebuilding the Elveden site following a fire and investment in new facilities throughout the villages.

The group controls more than £200m of annual premium across its distribution and underwriting businesses, which include Dayinsure, the UK’s leading provider of temporary motor insurance.

Operating across 14 parks in 12 states, Go Ape USA is the dominant player in the treetop adventure and zipline sector. We have partnered with local management to help unlock the huge growth potential in the business.

Founded a Private Equity Real Estate Investment Business with an initial £250m to deploy.

Hillcrest has a targeted two-year investment period with flexibility in terms of asset classes and can invest across the capital structure.

Formation and rapid expansion to grow into one of the largest NHS dentistry providers in the UK prior to our exit in 2006.

UK’s largest partnership-focused housebuilder and top 10 UK housebuilder providing high quality mixed-tenure housing for first time buyers outside the London market. During our ownership revenue more than tripled and the business grew to sell c.4,000 affordable homes per year.

In 2021 SCP formed a joint venture with a leading developer and operator of luxury retirement communities in the UK. SCP and its partner work together to acquire development sites, obtain planning consent for new retirement communities and then sell the site with the benefit of an implementable planning consent.

Innovation in the UK’s life insurance market, creating the first European wide consolidator of Life Insurance back books, now the largest FTSE quoted life insurance consolidator in Europe.

Creation of the first UK nationwide sit-down casual dining chain from 1993-1998, becoming UK’s largest quoted restaurant group.

Total disruption of the UK pub market with creation of first retailer-led, non-brewery-owned pub chain in 1998, growing it into the UK’s largest pub company.

Sale and leaseback of Santander’s entire freehold branch network in Spain at the time and subsequent formation of a listed REIT.

Raised over $300m on NYSE through a SPAC and merged with Vertical Aerospace (ticker EVTL). Vertical Aerospace has created the most advanced electronic vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in the world, which is revolutionising urban air mobility and electrifying air travel.

Freehold estate of over 800 pubs, achieving the first leased pub securitization in 1998.