In our latest SE100 Social Business Coffee Break webinar, Homes for Good CEO Zoe Whyatt and NatWest Social and Community Capital bossVictoria Papworth share their experiences of taking on a top job and the lessons they’ve learned.
The number of social enterprises with equity, diversity and inclusion strategies has been steadily growing over the past five years, despite fresh challenges, reveals our deep dive into data from the SE100 Index and Social Business Awards.
Dr Chih Hoong Sin welcomes the UK government’s rediscovered enthusiasm for outcomes funds with the launch of the world’s biggest fund of this type. But we should look beyond its impressive size to focus upon how it can best optimise impact.
ANALYSIS: The UK’s privatised water industry has been sinking into debt and disrepair for years, but a commission set up to seek solutions overlooks ownership models that could work for all, say impact economy experts.
NatWest SE100 2025 awards were celebrated for the first time in Manchester, England, recognising social enterprises and social investors from across the UK.
2019's NatWest SE100 Impact Champion Award went to ECT Charity, a community transport organisation which enables society's most vulnerable to get out and about. Watch our film to find out why.
The end of free money, nudging environmental action and networked learning: some of the great ideas for impact investors that Pioneers Post picked up at this week’s EVPA conference.
In an open letter to the participants of the GSG Impact Summit, Mehrdad Baghai, Sean Hinton, Jacqueline Novogratz, Alejandro Preusche and Shane Tedjarati confront a "powerful hidden disruption of our core beliefs, principles and values".
Teresa Reynolds doesn't want young people to grow up struggling with the same self-esteem issues she did. We discover how her social enterprise is using makeup training to help people open up about how they feel about themselves.
At the EVPA annual conference in The Hague, attended by the Queen of the Netherlands, the membership organisation marked its 15th anniversary with a call to "investors for impact" to commit to 10 principles guiding their actions.
The growth of 4impact, a new Hague-based fund, is helping the small Dutch metropolis live up to its ‘Impact City’ brand, as locals sing the praises of a hugely mixed city with international ties.
Going it alone doesn't work in the world of social investment. Each person or organisation relies on the next link in the chain to make our collective impact possible.
Small charities and social enteprrises are often the stars of our local communities. But we still haven't figured out how best to support them, particularly with investment.
