Social impact investment firm, Resonance, won our Investment award for ‘Good Deal of the Decade’ for its groundbreaking partnership with St Mungo’s and others to create the Homelessness Property Funds. Find out how they made it in our new film.
Bite-sized stories selected from your social enterprise and impact investing news releases. This week: new declarations of a climate emergency, Big Issue goes contactless, Social Investment Scotland reveals annual figures, and more.
Coffee is fuelling more than just the working lives of Londoners; it's taking people out of homelessness and giving them a future too. Change Please is the Big Issue of coffee.
The mighty Gates Foundation commits $80m to close the gender data gap, Scottish social entrepreneurs are given a start-up boost and the role of Islamic Social Finance in dealing with critical social issues is highlighted in Istanbul.
Guardian columnist Owen Jones and actor Maxine Peake were among those to hit the UK’s high streets in an attempt to sell copies of The Big Issue as part of #VendorWeek last week.
The Big Issue has teamed up with social enterprise coffee suppliers Old Spike Roastery to launch Change Please, a venture that will train and employ homesless people to run coffee carts for caffeine lovers.
Worcestershire-based charity NewStarts has received loans from Charity Bank and Big Issue Invest in order to secure its future providing support to those in financial crisis.
