As tens of thousands of delegates gather in Paris this week for the ChangeNOW conference, we dive into challenging conversations on financing nature restoration, how to revive collective action in 2026 and fighting “greenhushing”.
In a review of the bloc’s Social Economy Action Plan, the EU Commission said progress is “tangible” but commits to doing more to “level the playing field” for the sector.
FILM: Do we grasp the latest AI technology to amplify our impact, or steer clear for fear of causing harm? At SEWF25 in Taipei we explored cutting edge ideas with leading social entrepreneurs, and dived into the ethical conundrums of AI with global experts.
The On Purpose Associate leadership programme for professionals seeking careers in social enterprise has launched in the French capital and seeks its next cohort of change makers. Ellie Ward talks to CEO Tom Rippin.
From wakeboarding in Scotland to browsing the arts and crafts stalls at The Open Market CIC in Brighton, here's our pick of the top social enterprise days out in time for the bank holiday.
This month, the University of Greenwich in London is hosting its first Social Enterprise Festival as part of a wider strategy to integrate social entrepreneurship into its academic agenda.
For the past three years the teams at Allia and Canaccord Genuity have been engineering a new social investment machine that is opening up big bucks for charities and making social investment more appealing to mainstream investors.
The time is ripe for social investment to take off. If it doesn't now, will it ever? Abi Rotheroe analyses the economic outlook and urges social ventures and their potential investors to make the most of the current state of interest rates.
Pioneers Post has teamed up with the Social Investment Business to present a collection of stories that explore how social ventures across the UK are using investment readiness grants to increase their impact and realise their BIG potential.
If you want to "transform lives in a way that hasn’t been achieved before, you need the disruption that social investment creates," says Jeremy Swain from Thames Reach. He talks investment readiness and SIBs with Ellie Ward.
International cosmetics company LUSH has opened its biggest shop to date on London’s Oxford Street. Pioneers Post talks to founder Mark Constantine and son Simon about ethical supply chains and driving social change through business.
Former CEO of the Big Society Network Paul Twivy has blamed the intiative's failure on a "series of broken promises" made by government in an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
