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Bite-sized stories this week – featuring a Middle East opportunity for wellbeing-focused enterprises, scale-up support for those helping people with complex needs, royal accolades for social enterprise leaders, and more. 

Changing the world means scaling impact, not increasing the number of enterprises or even growing your own reach. Spring Impact’s Joe Kallarackal shares strategies for smarter thinking about scale.

Some claim Big Society Capital’s current form – and its implications on the cost of finance – is actually holding back social investment. But, while lending all its money cheaply may be tempting, it would be a serious mistake, writes CEO Cliff Prior.

Social entrepreneurs may acknowledge there’s a crisis unfolding, but that doesn’t mean there’s a clear path ahead for how they should respond. Are they falling short – or does the responsibility lie elsewhere?

Fancy a glass of white from an organic vineyard – in London? Look no further: Forty Hall Vineyard delivers the goods, while improving its volunteers’ mental wellbeing.

PLUS: Acumen spinout 60 Decibels raises $1.7m, G20 leaders back more innovative financing to fund SDGs, Encourage Capital raises US$40m to bring clean energy financing solutions to Indian entrepreneurs, and more.

How can social enterprise support organisations help entrepreneurs learn – and what skills do they need most? Five lessons from the School for Social Entrepreneurs.

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