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 This argument is outdated, says GSG Impact chair Nick Hurd.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.
For its tenth year, the Social Enterprise World Forum returns to where it all began, in Edinburgh. Angela Constance says Scotland aims to deliver the best World Forum yet.
Being the CEO of a well-established organisation doesn't come without its challenges, says Helen Goulden. For starters, there's deciding between heritage and the pursuit of new ideas.
The social enterprise sector is a great place to be a woman, right? In our latest quarterly, the Pioneers Post reporting team reveals that it’s just not that simple.
A three-part mission statement ensures that ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s remains true to its founders’ aims, even after Unilever bought it in 2000. Rebecca Baron explains.
Billions of people have no access to clean drinking water, and environmental factors are to blame. This World Water Day, social enterprise Belu announces the steps it has made to reduce its carbon footprint.
Social enterprises aren’t just small and fluffy, and that shouldn’t be news to civil servants and others, says Jonathan Bland. But widespread beliefs about social enterprises’ limitations damage their ability to reach their potential.
