At a time of austerity in public services, there is an even stronger case to work collaboratively. How can we get local authorities to buy into what we do as investors? Who are the commissioners enabling positive change and what can we learn from them or do to support them?

What can social investors do to help develop a pipeline of social investment-ready social enterprises and community businesses?

Feedback prompts the social investment wholesaler to overhaul its brand – engaging a marketing agency that specialises in working with "complicated businesses".

Hiring your first employee? Or managing a team – and realise you haven’t taken time yet to put sound HR processes in place? Consult our checklist to get up to speed. 

A new body is to advance impact investing – including by monitoring policy and regulation and advocating for change – and to promote the UK as a world hub in this area.

Looking for previews, coverage and updates from this year's Social Enterprise World Forum in Addis Ababa? Head over to the Global Perspectives on Social Enterprise Collection.

PLUS: Generation Investment raises $1bn to invest in “sustainability revolution”, SIS Ventures makes first equity investment, North East Social Investment Fund invests £700k in employability and education, and more.

Top UK scientists have today issued an unprecedented plea to foundations and philanthropists to spend more on tackling our “extraordinary ecological collapse”.

The very first DICE Young Storymakers programme – a joint initiative of Pioneers Post and the British Council – kicked off on Saturday, with 14 young journalists from six countries joining us in London to learn about creative and social enterprise.