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.
We probably ought at least to allow the possibility that social innovations can be more harmful than beneficial, and stop seeing them as good by definition, write Madeleine Gabriel and Julie Simon of Nesta.
"Let us... see if we can create a bigger, stronger society with compassion at its heart," minister for civil society Rob Wilson said at an event where the government talked up its efforts to include social enterprises in its supply chain.
From the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the evolution of finance and Adam Smith, a black cab ride around London with Sir Ronald Cohen proves to be an energising exercise of the mind.
100 solutions for a better world, India's first B Corp, the other problem that social enterprises have apart from money and a 'good' hotel that is being floated from Amsterdam to London. It's all in the round-up.
As the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group meets in Lisbon we can exclusively reveal who's involved in the UK contingent of the body that is aiming to make impact investing a global force for change.
These investor-backed schemes to tackle social problems show 'real potential to improve how governments worldwide deliver public services', says report.
How are we going to solve the problems that come with the increasing numbers of people moving into Europe? 30 organisations with potentially life changing ideas are being nurtured by the EU.
Despite having a large social economy, social entrepreneurship is not widely understood in Spain, writes Anne Salter. Margarita Albors hopes to change that with Social Nest.
