IMPACT 101: Cooperatives are big business: more than 1bn people are cooperative members, and the top 300 cooperatives and mutuals turn over more than US$2tn. But how do these entities work, and what are their benefits and drawbacks?
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“There will never be enough investment, so it’s our task to get as much as possible from the investment that is available and make it go further than ever before,” explains the CEO of UK-based First Ark Group.
In her latest column for Pioneers Post, accidental social entrepreneur Helen Trevaskis recalls the lessons she's learnt over "these last (many and tortuous) months" spent trying to create the perfect business plan.
With just two months to go until the launch of Adessy Associates' Pioneers for Change programme, Ellie Ward speaks to one of the speakers, entrepreneur Marc Winn, about his advice for people launching their own enterprises.
Liverpool-based FRC Group is no stranger to political and economic uncertainty. In its 27 years of existence the 2014 RBS SE100 award winner has demonstrated unshakeable resilience and proved itself to be a champion of British social enterprise.
Social business analyst Dave Masom reflects on Darwin's theory of evolution to explain how impact measurement can be done in a way that doesn't eat up too many of your precious resources.
Being relatively new to the UK social enterprise sphere hasn't stopped Realise Futures from making its mark. Earlier this year Pioneers Post headed to Ispwich to visit the CIC that is boosting employment opportunities in the East.
Once upon a time John Taylor Hospice embarked on a mission to raise awareness about prostate cancer in one of the UK's biggest cities, Birmingham. Now, as RBS SE100 award-winners, the team tell their story.
Author and neuroscientist Dr Paul Zak tells the Saïd Business School that truly responsible business leaders think of their employees as volunteers and explains how to create the optimum working environment.
Liam Black tells it like it is and offers a wealth of advice at the launch of his latest book – the Social Entrepreneur's A-Z – on the second day of the UK's social investment conference Good Deals 2014.
