• NPC’s ‘impact economy’ definition: a ‘missed opportunity’ or chance to collaborate better?

    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.

  • ‘We need to have a unified voice’: Impact Europe’s new CEO Angela Wiebeck

    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.

  • Trump’s chilly bluster must be countered by warmer winds

    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 This argument is outdated, says GSG Impact chair Nick Hurd.

  • Sir Ronald Cohen: ‘Transparency is going to disrupt companies delivering negative impacts’

    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.

Collection: Measuring value
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Stop now and get your measurement sh*t together

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.

Jeremy Nicholls
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What makes a spin-out success?

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.

Simon Denny
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Keep the lights on…but fairly

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

Paul Pugh