4,661 social enterprise jobs have been created or saved because of support offered by 12 specialist responsible finance providers in the UK throughout 2017, finds a new report. Yet lenders need access to more funds.

The Social Enterprise Academy, founded in Scotland, has launched its first base in India with support from the Scottish Government.

Social Enterprise UK (SEUK) has launched a Fellowship Programme to mark its 15th anniversary as the UK membership body for social enterprises.

Social enterprise should be moved out of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), says Social Enterprise UK. It also calls for reform of the Social Value Act.

Home of the hipster culture, the London Borough of Hackney is now a "Social Enterprise Place", according to Social Enterprise UK.

An online platform to create sustainable homes, a tool that allows blind people to feel shapes on a touch-screen and a peer-to-peer learning network were each awarded €50k on 26 October.

Ten new social impact bonds (SIBs) have been launched by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) to support children in care and tackle drug dependency.

Ahead of the Beyond Good Business event on 23 May, Dirk Bischof of Hatch Enterprise tells us why corporates and social enterprises working together can only be a good thing.