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 This argument is outdated, says GSG Impact chair Nick Hurd.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.
Investors big and small took the leap this week to make a difference. Highlights included £25m being raised in 24 hours for affordable housing, financial inclusion being backed by some big guns and the proliferation of advisors.
The minister for charities, volunteering and social enterprise loses his seat in the UK general election but a social enterprise stalwart is newly installed as a member of parliament in the north of England.
So, the UK goes to the polls again. But amidst promises of being "for the many, not the few" and "a strong economy that works for everyone," which party is promising to support social enterprise?
A fund aimed at improving social investment infrastructure heads up our latest briefing. Plus Big Society Capital buys more shares in Charity Bank and UK leads the way in social innovation competition.
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Ahead of the AVPN conference in Bangkok next week, we profile three very different social investors that, just like AVPN, are not only about venture philanthropy.
The Beyond Good Business event, where profit and purpose sat happily side by side, encouraged corporates and social ventures to collaborate to make change happen.
A big improvement on the 2014 figure sees Welsh social enterprises packing a punch – the kind of punch that is worth £2.37bn to a nation of three million people.
Corporate scandals and economic meltdowns have been going on for hundreds of years, writes John Spiers, chief executive of EQ Investors. Isn't it about time we did something about it?
