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  • Why a capital injection could be the potentially devastating risk that investors and founders don’t foresee

    EXPERT INSIGHT: When a significant impact investment meets founders who have not previously been stress-tested at this scale, new threats appear, warns risk analysis and fraud specialist Rupert Evill. 

  • Annabel Thomas MacGregor, CEO of Raised In: ‘High standards and kindness can go hand in hand’

    Good Leaders podcast: Creating a good place to work, balancing commercial acumen with social value, and why she relishes a crisis: this year’s SE100 Pioneer of the Future Award winner shares her leadership insights with Tim West.

  • Advice from the exhibition floor: how to survive and thrive at an impact conference stand

    Bring your sandwich, speak English, stay true to your ethics and other tips: impact entrepreneurs at ChangeNOW share advice on landing deals, partners and customers at a conference exhibition.

  • For peat’s sake: How we can turn Europe’s bogs and fens into investable green infrastructure for the future

    EXPERT INSIGHT Millions of hectares of degraded, dried out peatlands across Europe are a huge climate risk. Attracting the billions of euros of private capital they need to be restored could lie in not only carbon, but water, says Matt Robinson.

  • Social enterprise and impact investing events in 2026 and beyond

    Ready to network, learn and get inspired? Don't book your diary without the Pioneers Post roundup of impact economy events coming soon – for social entrepreneurs, impact investors and all those working within the global impact economy.

  • Pioneers Post Business School: How to do good business, better

    The tools and insight you need to do good business, better. Get expert advice, practical insight and frontline examples on key business management topics from our network of social business practitioners and advisors. 

Illuminati

What is the secret of the social investment illuminati?

Wading through the jargon and ever lengthening acronyms of the social investment world can be an unpleasant experience to say the least. Matt Black assures that social investors are indeed human and offers valuable advice on dealing with them.

Dame Stephanie Shirley

Dame 'Steve' Shirley on breaking cast iron ceilings

Dame Stephanie Shirley is the pioneer of workplace gender equality that you've probably never heard of. Non-profit consultancy firm Aleron invite her to tell the story of her $3bn tech company designed by women, for women in the 1960s.