Anchor Hanover Group Allocation and Impact Report September 2023 Enabling current and future generations to love living in later life Anchor is England’s largest provider of specialist housing and care for people in later life. We are proudly not-for-profit, which means our surplus is reinvested into our properties and services - building more and innovating for the future. With a history going back over 50 years, we now serve more than 65,000 residents in over 54,000 homes across almost 1,700 housing and care home locations across England. We’re committed to ensuring that our services provide older people with an opportunity to live as independent a life as possible in high quality, affordable homes in a safe and caring environment. Our vision is to transform housing and care so people can have a home where they love living in later life. The role we play in the lives of our residents and their communities impacts society and the environment and we are committed to creating social value, mitigating the environmental risks and impacts of our operations, and operating to high standards of governance and financial control. In 2021, we published our Sustainability Financing Framework, which was the basis on which we issued a £350m sustainability bond to support investment requirements in providing more and better homes and providing green homes. It can also be used for issuing future bonds and sustainable financing. Our Sustainability Financing Framework (“the Framework”, “SFF”), sets out our intention to: “use an amount equivalent to the net proceeds of all Sustainability Instruments to finance or refinance the transformation of housing and care in line with our vision, and in a manner that promotes positive societal and environmental outcomes. Where a Sustainability Instrument takes the form of a Sustainability Bond, Social Bond, Green Loan or Social Loan (each a “Proceeds Based Instrument”), the proceeds will be earmarked toward Eligible Projects. Eligible Projects are investments and expenditures made by us in line with eligible Social or Green projects which are aligned with the International Capital Market Association (“ICMA”) Social Bond Principles (“SBP”), the ICMA Green Bond Principles (“GBP”), the ICMA Sustainability Bond Guidelines (“SBG”) or the Loan Market Association (“LMA”) Green Loan Principles (“GLP”) or the LMA Social Loan Principles (“SLP”).” Sustainability Financing Framework, 2021, p.3
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