Dr Sakena Yacoobi of the Afghan Institute of Learning and Divine Chocolate's Sophi Tranchell received Good Deals Pioneers Awards for inspiring work at Good Deals 13 and showed how a troublemaking spirit and rebellion were key to creating change.

Is the private sector putting social enterprises to shame on social value accounting? Think it’s enough to have a social purpose without checking if you’ve made a difference? Try telling that to anyone who didn’t get a job at the end of your employability project, says Jeremy Nicholls.

Andrew Laird explains why mutual models for public sector service delivery might just get the UK workforce out of its sickbed

Dizzy about spin-outs? There's not a lot of data about how these employee-led organisations work or the impact they have, but a recent study brings new evidence to the debate.

The stand out announcement of Ed Miliband's party conference speech on Tuesday was his plan for a freeze on household and business energy bills between June 2015 and the start of 2017. Paul Pugh, Head of Third Sector Services at Eversheds LLP considers where the debate around the energy sector might take us, from Miliband's vision to social enterprise provieders

Winning social investment can feel like reaching for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. But, the path to securing funding is clearer than it seems. James Brooks of Cogent Ventures provides six essential pointers to get social enterprises on the right track.

Steve Goldberg draws on personal experience to reframe the the debate around social impact bonds (SIBS), and contends with the idea that they are too expensive and corruptive.

SOCAP 2013 has begun. The ticket booths are empty, downtown hotels booked up, and pocket social innovation vocab books sold out, as over 1,800 social entrepreneurs from around the world gather in San Francisco to push the social agenda in capital markets.