In 2024, Livv Housing Group launched Livv and Flourish, a £4.25m social impact investment fund for the Liverpool City Region. Blackburne House CEO Andrea Rushton shares the story of her charity’s social investment with Livv.
Children's clothing waste, period poverty and mental health are just some of the issues being tackled by this year's NatWest SE100 Awards finalists. Find out who they are and book your free place at this year's event.
Our demand for more and more clothes is bad news for the planet. New, nature-derived materials promise a lighter footprint – but can they convince price-conscious shoppers, investors and retailers to take a leap into the unknown?
Social investor Big Issue Invest says over three-quarters of young people involved in the Chances Social Outcomes Partnership achieved at least one positive outcome, improving their school, work and life circumstances.
The Dutch social enterprise landscape is growing steadily, but it's not championing all forms of social business. Holland's pioneers are searching for authenticity.
He's joined police forces across the country to tackle knife and gun crime, he runs anti-bullying programmes in schools, and now he wants to launch a social enterprise leisure centre to rival Virgin, Fitness First and David Lloyd Leisure.
If we want to to enjoy our morning scroll through the news without being accosted by 'Banking Scandal' headlines, we need local authorities to create a network of local banks we can trust.
Social investment plays a vital role in improving the GCSE exam results of disadvantaged students in the UK and the UN looks to entrepreneurship to solve the youth unemployment crisis in Gambia.
"Our sector is so much the stronger for his lifetime of work. I will greatly miss his friendship and his wisdom" – Sir Stuart Etherington on Stephen Lloyd, much loved and respected charity and social enterprise lawyer, who died this week.
The most successful social enterprises will have broken down the doors of a disused building and used them as tables. They'll also be able to tell a fantastic story.
A sense of purpose is a luxury that we aspire to. And there's something about the quest to reach it that irks accidental social entrepreneur, Helen Trevaksis.
Billions of pounds of cuts, 'graphs of doom', the promise and betrayals of the Big Society, lead us to one big question: who pays when the state can't?
