• UK social enterprise ‘top 100’ 2025 opens for nominations

    Pioneers Post and NatWest are seeking out the brightest and best applicants for this year's NatWest SE100 Social Business Awards. Don't miss your chance to be counted among the UK's top social enterprises this year.

  • How a Ukrainian community is using ‘citizen tokens’ to move beyond aid

    People displaced by conflict don’t have to be passive recipients of donations. Vadym Georgienko explains how a pilot of the ‘Citizen Token System’, which he designed, has enabled entrepreneurs in a town in western Ukraine to thrive.

  • Finding the AI balance: how to use AI for good without trashing the planet and its people

    As entrepreneurs eager to use artificial intelligence for the greater good grapple with AI’s negative impacts on people and planet, speakers at the ChangeNow conference offer practical solutions to create a truly sustainable AI.

  • Making waves: The new generation of startups using AI to save the planet

    From tracking underwater creatures to optimising crop yields, many entrepreneurs now use AI to tackle environmental challenges. But, with much uncertainty – and concerns about AI’s negative impact – they’re entering unknown waters.

  • How to unlock VCs’ full impact potential

    As Trump’s USA takes its eye off social impact, Europe’s venture capitalists stand at a decisive moment in history, concluded discussions at the latest FASE Impact Fire Talk. But capital strategies must evolve to unleash VCs’ true transformative power.

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Pioneers Post Quarterly: Issue 2

In Issue 2 of Pioneers Post Quarterly we ask, with inequality on the rise, will social value, rather than financial value, become a global aspiration? Ethical labels, the social economy in Southeast Asia and leadership burnout are also all up for discussion.

Kiran Bir Sethi

Money is dead: an educator writes

Kiran Bir Sethi (pictured above) is the founder of the Riverside school in Ahmedabad. As well as teaching students traditional subjects, they learn about social issues. Here, she contributes to the cover feature of the Autumn edition of Pioneers Post Quarterly.

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Money is dead: moving beyond GDP

Contributing to the cover feature in Pioneers Post's Autumn edition, Michael Green of the Social Progress Imperative explains why "the once self-evident truth that financial measures are sufficient to guide our societies is shattered".

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Money is dead: Peter Holbrook responds

Writing in Pioneers Post Quarterly's Autumn edition, Peter Holbrook, chief executive of Social Enterprise UK, sees government reform, greater transparency and boardroom leadership as the way to a more equal society.