Leading voices from UK social enterprise, co-operatives and social investment have raised concerns over a “landmark” definition of the ‘impact economy’ that risks alienating a number of impactful organisations.
Impact Europe today revealed the name of its new chief: Angela Wiebeck, praised for “building bridges” between mainstream finance and impact over her two decades at UBS and Aquila Capital. She speaks to Pioneers Post from Brussels.
OPINION: There’s a message blowing across the Atlantic that the business of investment is to maximise return, and considering people and planet is woke nonsense. This argument is outdated, says GSG Impact chair Nick Hurd.
INTERVIEW: Putting a price tag on a company’s social and environmental impact is the only way to demonstrate its true profit and loss, believes Sir Ronald Cohen, who is now focusing on driving forward the next accounting revolution.
Pioneers Post met Reasons to be Cheerful podcast hosts Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd and discussed bromances, Obama and why they wanted to release an episode on social enterprise.
To kick off our new series looking at social enterprise and corporate collaboration, we meet the bosses of food education business Empower to Cook and global pharmaceutical brand Janssen, who unite around the role of the family.
After more than a decade of social investment and purpose-driven business, what have we achieved and where have we failed? Mairi Mackay, Glenys Thornton, Indy Johar, Toby Eccles and Amit Bhatia discuss.
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…
What are the keys to the success of Scotland’s social enterprise movement? Gerry Higgins and Jess Gildener reveal how the Scottish commitment to social justice combined with ministerial-level support have created a powerful force for good.
Is corporate interest in social enterprise purely cosmetic? Read our cover feature and more in the latest issue of Pioneers Post Quarterly, available exclusively to our subscribers.
