Humanitix opens UK office in Edinburgh with announcement of £500,000 annual prize for UK social enterprises and charities, and promise of focus on events accessibility for people with disabilities
As Big Issue Invest celebrates achieving £100m of social investments during its first 20 years, executive chair Mark Porter reflects on the UK social investor’s journey so far and the challenges that lie ahead.
As Convergence publishes figures showing the blended finance market held strong in 2024, it predicts that US-led international assistance budget cuts will put smaller, high-impact deals most at risk.
IMPACT 101: Cooperatives are big business: more than 1bn people are cooperative members, and the top 300 cooperatives and mutuals turn over more than US$2tn. But how do these entities work, and what are their benefits and drawbacks?
The evidence is stacking up to suggest there's a viable impact investing marketplace in Latin America. ImpactAlpha shares 50 highlights of impact investing dealflow in the region.
The social investment intermediary Numbers for Good is to close by the end of March, citing 'difficult market conditions for advisory services in the sector' and 'continual pressure on the level of fee income'.
Switching from product-led to consumer-led marketing is helping GLL – one of the UK’s largest social enterprises – to reconnect its brand with younger customers.
Talking about impact is all very well, but social enterprises only achieve that impact when the markets are there. Three ways to stimulate the multi-billion pound opportunity offered by Britain's corporates.
Embracing diversity means addressing more than just gender imbalances – the social enterprise space needs to start taking note of who we're excluding. A conversation with Dr Pragya Agarwal on the sidelines of the WISE100 launch.
Brazil's new president aims to turn around the country's fortunes. But Jair Bolsonaro might do well to listen to a young social entrepreneur who has already spent 15 years helping Brazil's poorest people set up their own small businesses.
Pakistan faces many challenges, but while some see its enormous population of young people as a problem, others believe that the youth generation offers the country its best hope of a brighter future.
