Big Issue Invest and Unity Trust Bank announce £4.3m investment in Sandwell care charity

Instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, we should take greater care to put our precious infants in the right tubs, says Steve Goldberg, arguing that we should be more selective about what to fund through social impact bonds.

People often become social entrepreneurs by accident, and many of the challenges they face are common. What better way to learn than to hear from those just a year or two ahead of you?

Wates Group, one of the UK’s largest construction companies, has just launched the industry’s first national brokerage service to help social enterprises trade with all of its sites in the UK – with the aim of spending £5 million with the sector by 2015. Charlie Wigglesworth, Head of Business at Social Enterprise UK, says now is the perfect time for social enterprises to develop their offering for private business.

In their first collaboration, social finance intermediaries Resonance and Ethex are working together on their most ambitious community share offer to date, raising £1m for Stockwood Community Benefit Society.