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. 

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.

The social entrepreneur addressing homelessness with coffee tells us why you might find him singing out of his car window round the streets of London and how Dismaland proved a happy experience for him.

At the NatWest SE100 Social Business Club Insight event in Bristol, the social entrepreneurs behind successful social enterprises Vi-Ability, 2nd Chance and Co-Wheels shared their travails and triumphs with an audience that was all ears.

“The idea is to move capital to the social entrepreneur rather than this late 19th century idea of the entrepreneur coming to London with his begging bowl to get a financier interested in his project,” said Social Stock Exchange CEO Tomás Carruthers.

After ten social enterprises gave their elevator pitches in rapid succession, two winners were chosen to receive £20,000 each and a pro bono legal and business support over the next twelve months.

CAN have recently conducted a survey trying to identify difficulties that social entrepreneurs have in running their organisations. No prizes for guessing what the number one concern was...

Ahead of his appearance on the judging panel for Chivas The Venture, Lstn's director of positivity Joe Huff tells us how selling audio products allows other people to regain their hearing. All hail the power of music.

We thought we'd talk to someone who has done just that. Kelly Davies is the boss of Vi-Ability. Six years after starting, Vi-Ability is debt free, has 16 members of staff and it seems the sky's the limit. So how did she do it?