Big Issue Invest announces mobile-first investment platform aimed at retail market, with backing from the UK's largest asset manager.

Many creative businesses have a clear social purpose. How can social entrepreneurs work more closely with them?

Pioneers Post meets the co-founder of Waya, which uses AI to improve access to information for refugees, and formerly of Singa, which connects refugees with their host communities.

Projects from Slovenia, Romania and Italy take home the top prizes in this year’s European Social Innovation Competition.

Pioneers Post accompanied a group of global changemakers on a walking tour through Edinburgh, and discovered its social enterprise hotspots. 

"Champagne corks will be popping at the prospect of £9bn in tax cuts for business," says SEUK boss – as he leads 130 UK social enterprise leaders in criticising the government’s “old fashioned and failed” approach to the economy.

Over 200 women talked female leadership and ways to involve more women in the impact economy at the NatWest WISE100 launch.

PLUS: Impact investing takes root on 6 continents, Palladium buys Enclude, £500k for London charities, South Africa’s first early childhood development impact bond, GIIN highlights huge SDG funding gap…