Investing in
Highlands Rewilding

Highlands Rewilding presents a unique investment opportunity as a mass-owned company, generating data from natural capital laboratories, which can guarantee verifiable credits in natural capital markets. We are rooted in the communities where we work and strive for local community empowerment in nature recovery decision-making and use of proceeds from natural capital monetisation.

This pioneering combination has huge potential for taking nature recovery to scale.

Data driven nature recovery

  • We aim to create multi-habitat open air natural-capital verification science laboratories, generating the data that can reliably underpin credits in natural-capital.

    This research and data will enable the nature-recovery industry to be confidently investable, helping tip it into the exponential growth needed for a liveable future.

Rooted in community

  • We work on the ground, not from afar, and aim to break new ground in consultation, partnership and involvement with the communities of which we are a part.

    Our business model also supports the building of prosperity through the creation of local jobs and education, and community ownership.

    We believe that rewilding can help communities become more resilient to the effects of climate change, biodiversity collapse and rural depopulation.

Scaling

  • We target returns, rooted in our data collection and processing, attractive enough to draw significant investment from both shareholders and financial institutions into our business, scaling our nature-recovery operations, and building prosperity in the communities where we work.

    Our land management is ethically profitable to encourage other landowners to embrace nature recovery models.

    See our services page for more information on what Highlands Rewilding can offer.

  • "As a former Chief Investment Officer in one of Sweden's state pension funds, I live in hope that large financial institutions can be drawn into investing in nature recovery, on the scale needed, sooner rather than later. Highlands Rewilding has a quest to help make this happen, and that - plus my confidence in Jeremy Leggett's team and their track record - is why I am an investor."

    Kerim Kaskal, Partner at Worthwhile Capital and Highlands Rewilding founding Funder.

  • "When I was CEO of Scottish and Southern Energy, we invested in Jeremy Leggett's creation Solarcentury, and were pleased to see its ultimate success. Then the UK needed successful home-grown companies in solar. Today we need successful home grown companies in developing natural capital, encouraging biodiversity and nature recovery as well as those focussed on developing and deploying clean tech."

    Ian Marchant, Former CEO of SSE and Highlands Rewilding Founding Funder.

  • "My foundation was pleased to invest in the first phase of the Highlands Rewilding Project, as bondholders. Now I will be investing in the crowdfund equity, as a private German citizen. I encourage non-Scottish citizens who care about making nature recovery ethically profitable to invest in this wonderful project. Its success in Scotland will encourage many new ventures by companies following its lead in other countries."

    Peter Heller, former deputy Mayor of the City of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Executive director of the Canopus Foundation and Highlands Rewilding Investor.

  • "I am incredibly pleased to be fortunate enough to have been a founding funder of Highlands rewilding. Having met Jeremy previously I was totally confident in not only his vision, drive and ambition, but more importantly to me, his motive to make the world a better place for future generations. I am in awe of the phenomenal progress that he and the team have made in such a short time."

    James Appleby. Entrepreneur, impact investor and Highlands Rewilding Founding Funder.

  • "As a businessman living and working right beside Bunloit, it is a thrill to co-own the estate and be involved in the vital nature-recovery work. I look forward to other members of the local community becoming shareholders in Highlands Rewilding as we progress."

    Fraser Campbell, Founder and CEO of Cobbs Group and Highlands Rewilding Founding Funder.

  • "I am proud to be a keen supporter and investor of Highlands rewilding since its very early days. The unique combination of a high-integrity natural capital laboratory, a testing and proving grounds for the regeneration of nature, along with sweeping landscapes and tasteful retreat accommodations that bring key stakeholders closer to rewilding - what more could one ask for? It ticks all the boxes of a transformational endeavour."

    Alexa Firmenich, Principal at Ground Effect and Highlands Rewilding Founding Funder.

Our Investment Story

Highlands Rewilding Crowdfund result

To date, we have raised £11 million in equity and have 809 shareholders, with no individual or organisation owning more than 13% at present.

2020 - Bonds

In 2020-21 we raised £5.6 million in bonds to buy Bunloit and Beldorney.

2021 - Equity Round 1

In 2021-22 our first equity funding round raised £7.6 million, from 53 founding funders, including most bonds converted.

2022 - Equity Round 2

During 2022-23 we ran an investment round which brought in more than £3.5 million, including £1.2 million from 757 crowdfunders alongside more funds from private investors.

2023 - UK Infrastructure Bank

We received a £12 million loan from the UK Infrastructure Bank, its first investment into nature recovery, and its first deal exclusively in Scotland, which allowed us to acquire the stunning Tayvallich Estate; a unique estate which will greatly boost our chances of a breakthrough in scaling nature recovery.

Founding Funders

  • Past and present socially-motivated business leaders with vast collective experience contributed £7.6 million of equity in our start-up round.

    These first investors include 14 current and former business leaders of nonfinancial companies investing as individuals, 11 entrepreneurs, 7 family offices, 5 fund managers investing as individuals, a Hollywood screenwriter and a world champion free-solo mountain climber. They committed sums ranging from £20,000 to £1,500,000.

    Among the 50 is one financial institution, MFS Investment Management.

Crowdfund Investors

  • After two rounds of fundraising, Highlands Rewilding has 808 shareholders, all committed to the rewilding mission, with no one shareholder owning more than 13% of shares at present. We believe that this governance ecosystem from a multiplicity of owners will be more suited to the needs of a sustainable nature-recovery industry than most company structures.

    Rooted in the communities where we work, we aim to break new ground in consultation, partnership and involvement in the communities of which we are a part. See our Memorandum of Understanding with Tayvallich Initiative as one example.

    We are proud that nearly 5% of our investors live in the communities where we work.

Institutional Investment

  • Partnerships between private, public and philanthropic institutions which can help Highlands Rewilding and other frontier companies break through, unlocking further private capital in the embryonic nature-recovery market.

    If you represent an institutional investor please get in touch directly.

We will be running further investment rounds in the future aimed primarily at institutional investment.

If you represent an institutional investor please get in touch directly.

Information for Co-owners

If you are a shareholder, please register to become a member of Investor Centre with Computershare, the appointed registrars. You will need your Shareholder Reference Number (SRN) which you can find within your correspondence from Computershare.

All enquiries relating to your shareholding should now be directed to Computershare. If you have any further queries about Highlands Rewilding, please contact us.