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.
Creative organisations will get interest rate reductions for delivering their social mission – as Cultural Impact Development Fund from Nesta/Access offers loans of £25,000 to £150,000.
Pioneers Post met Reasons to be Cheerful podcast hosts Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd and discussed bromances, Obama and why they wanted to release an episode on social enterprise.
If you took some of the UK’s leading women in social enterprise and put them around a dinner table, what would they talk about? For the first in our WISE conversations series in Edinburgh, we found out.
"Nothing less than a revolution will enable us to achieve solutions at a scale that can improve billions of lives and our planet," says the "father of impact investing".
