Your business deserves the right partner
You’ve built something that matters. A service that changes lives, a team that delivers, and a reputation that you’ve earned. Whether you’re thinking about the next phase of growth, planning for succession, or looking for a partner who understands your sector, we offer a values-aligned forever home where your business can thrive.
The challenge founders face
Many founders in health, justice and social care reach a natural inflection point. You’ve built a strong business, but scaling further requires capital, infrastructure and operational support that’s hard to build alone.
At the same time, you want to protect what you’ve created, the culture, the relationships and the quality of care. You also want to be rewarded for what you’ve built, de-risk and secure your family’s future.
The wrong partner can erode all of that. The right one accelerates it.
What to expect
Ten acquisitions completed. One Group created. Every founder supported.
“From the start of my relationship with the RCI team, I got the sense that they understood my business and the fine balance between maintaining and championing best practice that promotes client and staff welfare with commercial success.”
The inflection point every founder hits
You’ve built a respected business, won contracts and grown a team that believes in the mission. But at some point, the question shifts from “how do I grow this?” to “how do I secure this?” Maybe you’re stretched across too many roles. Maybe you’ve had an approach from a buyer who doesn’t understand your sector. Maybe you just want to know your options without committing to anything. Often, founders in health and social care face this moment and feel like their only choices are to keep pushing alone or sell to someone who’s values and vision don’t necessarily match theirs.
At RCI, we have created another option, a home for your business that protects what you’ve invested while continuing to deliver against our shared values and vision.
FAQs
We acquire specialist businesses in health, justice and social care. We look for strong founder-led teams, quality service delivery, and values that align with ours: Respect, Courage and Impact. If you’re unsure whether there’s a fit, the best next step is a conversation.
We can move from initial conversation to completion, as quickly as you’d like.
This can be done in a matter of weeks, but other founders prefer a longer timetable. We also know that sometimes the timing isn’t quite right yet. We pride ourselves on building relationships, and getting to know each other, so that when the time is right, it’s a very natural next step for us to partner together. Once we agreed and ready to go though, integration into our back-office platform takes under eight weeks.
Our transactions typically have an earn-out structure. This means that you will receive an upfront payment, and then further money as the business grows. We find that this helps to make sure we are aligned in growing the business. We’ve found many of our Founders achieve more overall through this model than they could have done from taking all cash on Day 1.
Our integration process is designed to support your people and give them access to broader career and collaboration opportunities across the Group, not replace them. This is a collaborative process and together we will work out the best route forward.
RCI Group is backed by a listed long-term investor, Literacy Capital plc. There is no expectation that RCI would sell your business, and Literacy’s structure means that they have no short-term fund exit pressure. We are building for the long term.
RCI Group is backed by Literacy Capital plc, a listed investment company that takes a long-term, values-aligned approach to growth. They are also unique in that they are the only investment fund to have been set up with a charitable objective. They donate 0.5% of their assets every year to literacy charities in the UK, amounting to £13.1 million since Literacy’s creation in 2017.
No, not unless handing over control is your goal.
Our model is to support you. We will consolidate certain functions where it makes sense to do so, but you can continue to lead your business day-to-day and manage your team. We will align on key strategic decisions and provide support around you such as finance, HR, compliance, IT and business development – so that you can focus on delivery and growth.
Ready to explore a partnership?
Every conversation starts the same way; confidentially, honestly and without obligation. Whether you’re actively considering your options or just starting to think about what’s next, we would love to hear from you.