A new report by the Social Market Foundation and Big Society Capital calls for the introduction of Social Pension Funds in the UK to provide much needed capital for charities and social enterprises.
Much attention has been paid to the rapid rise in house prices, but fewer headlines have been focussed on the affordable workspace crisis in the UK. This must change urges Susan Ralphs.
The UK is lagging behind its European neighbours when it comes to using social economy housing to solve the national housing crisis, argues ResPublica associate David Fagleman.
Have charities neglected the question of rent for too long? Andrew Weston analyses the Right to Buy scheme and the housing association "identity crisis" in the UK.
From access to high quality childcare to the national shortage of affordable housing, Geetha Rabindrakumar explains how social investment is tackling inequality in the UK.
For the past three years the teams at Allia and Canaccord Genuity have been engineering a new social investment machine that is opening up big bucks for charities and making social investment more appealing to mainstream investors.
The Real Lettings Property Fund is tackling homelessness in a different way. It has provided secure tenancies in its own properties for 240 of London's homeless people to date, and has now closed to new investors.
