RESTORE, a nature restoration company, has partnered with Triodos Bank UK on a new finance arrangement to help expand its services and grow its team.  

 The finance will facilitate a significant step for the organisation as RESTORE scales from an embedded rewilding consultancy to a comprehensive nature restoration business, designing and delivering bespoke 100-year natural capital products. With this transformation, it aims to help clients to accelerate their land transitions and ultimately provide more protection for nature across the UK.  

 Founded in 2023, RESTORE works with landowners, farmers and NGOs to offer vision reports, ecological surveys, land management, natural capital deals and wider professional services. It aims to help landowners understand the current state and potential of their land to create benefit for both the owner and environment. Its work covers the whole of the UK, with projects ranging from the country's first dedicated breeding facility for native invertebrates in Devon through to creating flagship rewilding projects in Bedfordshire. 

 Founding director of RESTORE, Benedict Macdonald, said: "Managing a fast-growing land portfolio of over 70,000 acres is hugely exciting, but does have its challenges. The key challenge RESTORE faced in 2024 was ensuring we had the surety of natural capital offerings to turn our vision for land into reality: providing certainty for our clients as they transition towards ambitious rewilding schemes. The need to develop natural capital infrastructure was key, and designing natural capital products requires the very best strategic brains. And that, as always, comes down to securing the best talent in an exciting but competitive new sector. 

 "The partnership with Triodos allows us to scale and upstaff whilst not becoming a standard consultancy that chases the next contract. It allows us to retain our ambition and focus upon key, large-acreage projects across the UK, which we are increasingly securing through a four-layered approach of vision, managed rewilding, ecological science and natural capital delivery. Triodos Bank is a natural partner, aligned to the very ambitious ecological standards that RESTORE seeks to deliver." 

 One of Europe's leading sustainable banks, Triodos has pioneered the financing of nature-based solutions across the last decade. In 2024, the bank announced its commitment to provide at least €500 million in investments, loans and contributions to the nature-based solutions sector by the end of 2030.

 Jess Edwards, relationship manager for nature, food and resource at Triodos Bank UK, added: "As a bank that recognises the critical importance of restoring our natural environment and mitigating the effects of the climate crisis, we've been proud to be at the forefront of financing nature-based solutions projects in the UK for a number of years. 

 "However, it's also important to us that this fast-growing sector has the professional services capacity and infrastructure to continue on this trajectory, which is why we're so pleased to support RESTORE in its growth plans. RESTORE has a team of dedicated and experienced professionals and ambitious plans in the nature space. We know that by backing  businesses like RESTORE to scale, we're helping the whole sector to develop and evolve."  

 RESTORE has made a series of strategic hires, including the recent appointment of commercial and natural capital director, Gil Martin. Gil is a highly regarded natural capital pioneer, having played a key role in the Belmont Estate rewilding and education project. The project, based close to Bristol, has drawn a lot of attention as a case study in successfully selling high-integrity Biodiversity Net Gain units.  

 Gil Martin commented: "Natural capital is the by-product of ecological ambition, and this is why RESTORE's infinitely scalable model for nature restoration is so exciting. We are planning for our first natural capital products to launch over the coming months."  

 Benedict Macdonald concluded: "With hires including a pioneering new ecology director and natural capital field leader, we have been able not only to devise enterprising ways to restore sites faster than before but develop a start to end natural capital delivery scheme that gives all sides confidence."