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.
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?
Australia's first permanent marketplace exclusively for social enterprises is launched in time for the Christmas shopping rush and tech start-ups looking to solve social issues are brought together in Israel.
The chancellor George Osborne plans to raise threshold for eligible investments in social enterprises to £5m a year under social investment tax relief.
Thatcher and Reagan were perhaps the world's greatest neoliberalists – until now. Dr Andrew Curtis and Tara Anderson urge us to consider the motivations of those governments that are embracing the concept of social innovation today.
The Phone Co-op invests in the HCT Group demonstrating a rare example of a social enterprise investing its excess capital into another social enterprise.
Liam Black tells it like it is and offers a wealth of advice at the launch of his latest book – the Social Entrepreneur's A-Z – on the second day of the UK's social investment conference Good Deals 2014.
