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The University of Northampton has set the standard for ensuring major construction projects have a positive social impact in the UK and India’s TATA Social Enterprise Challenge winners are announced.

Although there were encouraging noises about social and corporate responsibility, for many business leaders profit remains the principal focus.

Scotland’s social enterprise census reveals the sector provides more than 100,000 jobs and a new $1m fund for young social entrepreneurs is launched in New Zealand.

Cheers! Edinburgh's first social enterprise pub opens, a Hollywood actor joins in the birthday celebrations of Welsh social enterprise Toogoodtowaste and in Ukraine the first social enterprise dedicated to preventing human trafficking opens its doors.

Goldman Sachs has bought a San Francisco-based impact investment firm, 25 social enterprises have been selected to take part in government-funded accelerator programme in Malaysia and the National Business Awards recognise UK social enterprises.

Co-founder of Social Bite Josh Littlejohn kicks of the 2015 SE100 Insight event by setting out his "purist" vision of social enterprise in Edinburgh.

Government ministers from Taiwan, Ghana and Scotland set out what they believe are the greatest challenges facing the social enterprise sector and challenge social entrepreneurs to turn the most pressing social problems into opportunities at the 2015 SEWF.

Neil Stewart is the man handing out contracts to service providers and he'd like to see more of the money providing a social value.

With more than 200 delegates from three continents gathering in Inverness next week, we look at the importance of social enterprise in supporting rural communities to thrive.