NatWest SE100 2025 awards were celebrated for the first time in Manchester, England, recognising social enterprises and social investors from across the UK.
The Better Futures Fund is the result of months of consultations over a new social impact investing vehicle announced by the government last autumn, and aims to support 200,000 children over 10 years.
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?
The Real Lettings Property Fund is tackling homelessness in a different way. It has provided secure tenancies in its own properties for 240 of London's homeless people to date, and has now closed to new investors.
Dialogue about impact investment between developed and developing countries, and the need to invest in women are two key issues for debate at the Sankalp Forum in Delhi next week. We put five questions to Forum director Aparajita Agrawal.
Payment by results sounds straightforward, right? But if you get involved in one of these contracts you need to ditch traditional costing and pricing models for a new way of looking at things, warns consultant Nicolas Ponset.
Powering social change through years of commercial knowledge and excellent business acumen – two of the judges of the RBS SE100 2014 Growth Award explain why Goodwill Solutions CIC emerged victorious.
They may be small, but they're mighty: the first long-term analysis of the UK's social enterprise sector reveals explosion in tiny social enterprises – plus phenomenal growth figures.
With just over a week until the Sankalp World Forum in Delhi, we've interviewed one of this year's speakers, Teresa Njoroge, about her extraordinary journey from international banking to a Kenyan prison and, finally, social entrepreneurship.
Specialist fund manager Bridges Ventures is backing the first social impact bond in the world specifically designed to help people with long-term health conditions including diabetes and heart disabilities.
Politicians and advocates of social investment must minimise social investment hype and the role of Big Society Capital should be reconsidered, concludes a new report by the Alternative Commission on Social Investment.