Northern Ireland wants to follow England and Wales by introducing a law to ensure that public services commissioners consider wider social, economic and environmental benefits of the contracts they award.

Since the government-backed social investment wholesaler launched in 2015, it has been distributing funding to others to allocate. Now the first of its money has reached a social enterprise.

The Big Issue co-founder and crossbench peer wants to see social enterprise reach the parts of society that big business cannot reach. But he says the government must do more – like publishing a social enterprise strategy.

The UK prime minister gives a wide-ranging speech outlining that her ambitions for post-Brexit Britain rest on notions of mutual responsibility and helping those who are "just getting by". She also mentions social finance.

Wondering how you can be a more effective leader of your social venture? In the latest in his occasional series of letters to a young social entrepreneur, Liam Black offers some pointers for your new year's resolutions.

From nearly 1,200 awards, three figures in the social enterprise and social investment world were recognised in the annual list of gongs that recognises high achievers in public life.

A new government in Argentina hopes to transform the country’s economic and social situation. Social investment experts Miguel Ferreyra de Bone and Alejandra Baigun predict that the time is right for social enterprise and social investment to take off.

The Big Lottery Fund is the biggest funder of community activity in the UK and it’s keen to make sure that money is well spent. Against a background of tough social challenges, Brexit and doubts over the future of charity, its new initiative is provoking debate about how we can all better support a thriving civil society.