Food waste charity FareShare South West recieves £70,000 through pilot social investment tax relief fund set up to trial innovative methods and stuctures that will help tackle Bristol's social and environmental issues.
Since taking on social investment, FareShare is gutsier than ever as it approaches the challenge of salvaging the 400,000 tonnes of food wasted in the UK food industry.
A new report from Bridges Ventures and Bank of America Merrill Lynch unravels some of the debate surrounding social impact bonds and provides a practical guide for how they should be designed.
New online business portal encourages entrepreneurship in Africa, Big Society Capital turn their focus to social care for older people in the UK and social enterprise is on Thailand's tourism agenda.
A commitment to the promotion of social enterprise globally and stronger international partnerships marked the end of the seventh Social Enterprise World Forum in Seoul, South Korea.
The G8 social investment taskforce will report next week. At SOCAP, the world's biggest social invesment event, taskforce chair Sir Ronald Cohen says governments hold the key to helping social investment take off like venture capital.
