Business School

How can social enterprise support organisations help entrepreneurs learn – and what skills do they need most? Five lessons from the School for Social Entrepreneurs.

In this early evening discussion at The Gathering, social investors explored the challenges raised by Winners Take All, Anand Giridharadas’s book on the wealthy elites and social change

How healthy is the tech for good sector? Who’s helping to fund it? And what should we be focusing on when it comes to data? This session, hosted by Vinay Nair from Lightful explored some of the issues around social ventures in the tech space.

In this session, delegates discussed their biggest hopes and fears for social investment – in the form of potential headlines in Pioneers Post. Working in groups, they used collage to create a series of imaginary headlines, and then voted on their favourites.

There has been much talk about ‘place-based investment’ – what is happening on the ground? With Bristol as the central case study, this session explored how a collaborative approach to investment in places can promote systemic change, and the conditions needed to make this happen.

Four housing association ‘giants’ have launched a new social investment fund that will provide support for enterprises that create positive social impact within their communities. But other housing associations have not been so proactive. Are housing associations really sleeping or just not well understood?