• ‘We want this to be global’: How South Yorkshire is building a blueprint for child-lens investing around the world

    The Dream Big South Yorkshire Fund unites social finance, local government and one of the world's leading children's charities. We speak to Key Fund and Save the Children to explore their ambitions for this pioneeering pilot.

  • Cathy Benwell, founder of A Good Thing: ‘Every donation creates a relationship’

    Good Leaders Podcast: Could every unwanted laptop, pillow or furniture item spark something bigger? A Good Thing’s co-founder Cathy Benwell talks to Tim West about how the social enterprise’s circular economy model turns would-be waste into social impact.

  • Scotland’s forthcoming social economy strategy must be backed by funds and ‘bold new ideas’

    After the Scottish government announces a new social economy strategy, and a potential £10m social impact partnerships fund, Social Enterprise Scotland chief calls for targeted funding for different business models.

  • Can the business of climate security drive peace in the Middle East?

    EcoPeace Middle East aims to deliver stability to the region through private investment in climate security projects, but the organisation's directors believe impact investors are too risk-averse to support its work.

  • 'How do we make these unbankable climate solutions bankable?'

    Five years after India and China forced COP26 to soften to “phase down” on coal, climate change activists at the AVPN conference say the fight has quietly moved to adaptation money – but the storms battering Asia's coastlines aren't waiting.

  • Asia's impact network tells its own billionaires to step up

    In Delhi for the first time, Asia's largest philanthropy and impact investment network, AVPN, says that despite the region's 1,000+ billionaires, its biggest challenge is the lack of Asian money.