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.
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.
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 This argument is outdated, says GSG Impact chair Nick Hurd.
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.
TV personality, champion of children’s rights and supporter of vulnerable older people – these are just some of the ways to describe Dame Esther Rantzen. She takes us on a tour of the city she calls home.
Helen Trevaskis, co-founder of social start-up 3C Collective is no stranger to moral dilemmas. But what should she tell her investor when competition comes calling?
Helen Trevaskis, co-founder of social start-up 3C Collective, reflects on what she’s learned about behaviour change as their long awaited pilot in India threatens to finally begin.
ClealySo, one of the UK's leading social investment intermediaries, has raised over £100m through its clients. The capital will be channeled to high impact social businesses.
The social enterprise stage provides the perfect platform for those seeking a sense of validation that they are unable to give themselves. Craig Dearden Phillips reflects on what drew him to social entrepreneurship.
"Few organisations are geared up to know if they are creating as much social value as they can with the resources they have" – Jeremy Nicholls argues that better is not good enough, it's time to start optimising social value creation.
The Social Value Act provides a real opportunity to increase the value being created for communities by public commissioning. All good, but one of the biggest risks is aligning local with social, says our regular columnist Jeremy Nicholls.
