• TERN launches Refugee Venture Fund to ‘close market gap’ for ambitious, high-growth refugee startups

    The £300,000 pilot will invest exclusively in refugee-owned or led businesses, aiming to lead to a £10m follow-on fund as refugee entrepreneurs are too often cut off from VC investment. We speak to TERN co-founder Charlie Fraser to find out more.

  • Can we build the relationships, opportunities and confidence needed to turn growing wealth into meaningful change?

    OPINION: The UK is entering a period of significant wealth transfer yet how we connect impact capital to impactful organisations feels like a niche conversation. We need a way to bring them together, says NPC boss Jonathan Simmons.

  • Blended finance market remains resilient in 2025 despite aid cuts – Convergence report

    Increase in private capital towards blended finance deals is “encouraging”, but scarcer concessional capital will have to be used “surgically” for market to truly scale, according to research published this week.

  • Is my sustainable fashion label part of the solution, or simply a comforting distraction?

    Do small ethical brands too often become a lifestyle choice for the rich, rather than a system-changing response to the fundamental problem we’re aiming to tackle, wonders social entrepreneur Aliza Ayaz.

  • The social entrepreneur who built a solar-powered AI data centre in his home

    As protests grow around the world against the building of massive, environmentally destructive data centres to serve the ever growing demands of AI, one Australian social entrepreneur has developed a different type of AI data centre which meets his organisation’s social values.