There are many reasons to collaborate and bringing together succesful services can be a route to increased impact. Jenny North, Director of Policy and Strategy at Impetus Trust, lays out the key factors for success.

Social investors are driven by results, outcomes and impact. But is the focus stifling creativity and undermining social ventures? Ben Metz makes the case.

Davos may embrace challenge, argues John Elkington, but that doesn't mean it's case solved.

Councils everywhere are on a strict financial diet. But  judicious social investment can make restricted resources go further, creating new jobs, services and homes

In the second of a two-part series, David Bank follows the impact investing money trail – and challenges us all to be transparent and open

In the first of a two-part series, David Bank attempts to follow the impact investing money trail – and finds it curiously elusive.

Including why Britain was at the heart of the industrial revolution, what Big Society Capital will do next and how to pitch for investment.