Your chance to nominate inspiring women leading social enterprises and impact investment during 2020/21 – with four awards to be announced at our WISE100 Celebration. Apply by midnight on Sunday 31 October!
PLUS: Access Foundation's flexible finance grantees; Irish government offers €1m for social enterprise awareness-raising; Key Fund reports £447m 'total impact'; Olio and Oddbox lure investors; Social Finance raises $50m; and more.
In spite of the challenges of organising a global event during a pandemic, the 2021 Social Enterprise World Forum attracted more than 3,000 participants and is hailed as a success by organisers.
Bewildered by buzzwords? Drowning in jargon? Webreak down the terminology and get back to basics with impact economy concepts. Here, Buzzacott's Alex Judd provides your Impact 101 on social enterprise acquisitions.
An Northamptonshire sports club that has welcomed young bikers and skaters for years can now boast two Olympic medalists among its members. Pioneers Post met them on their return from Tokyo and found out what makes Adrenaline Alley special.
Hopes rise that social entrepreneurship is back on the policy agenda after opposition party number two Angela Rayner picked a London social enterprise to launch new policy proposal.
What does it take to run a top-performing social business? The seven winners of the 2021 NatWest SE100 awards spill the beans in a series of video postcards filmed especially for Pioneers Post readers.
Judging the ‘best of the best’ is never a simple task – but for this year’s NatWest SE100 Awards, both veteran mastery and emerging talent have been able to shine through.
From inspired educators to revolutionary advertisers, from football clubs to community cafés, from 'positive pants' to food that fights loneliness – the NatWest SE100 top 100 again celebrates UK social enterprises in all their wonderful diversity.
