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The news from Westminster has long been frustrating for those running social businesses – but there may be opportunities too. UnLtd's senior policy officer decodes the latest developments and explores what they mean for social entrepreneurs.
Pressure grows on social investors to address the UK’s dangerous levels of inequality – including seeking out campaigning groups and other equality-focused organisations for their portfolios.
Many think of financial accounting as a neutral, perhaps dull, technical exercise. But it’s a system based on deeply flawed assumptions, argues Jeremy Nicholls – and it’s driving inequality.
From a South Indian catering company to a business over postgraduate courses on tackling inequality, the winners of the 2016 Big Venture Challenge have been announced. Read on to see who made the top 20.
The Gym Group has been listed on the London Stock Exchange at a £250m valuation. Ellie Ward delves deeper into Bridges Venture's "poster child" investment.
From access to high quality childcare to the national shortage of affordable housing, Geetha Rabindrakumar explains how social investment is tackling inequality in the UK.
For the past three years the teams at Allia and Canaccord Genuity have been engineering a new social investment machine that is opening up big bucks for charities and making social investment more appealing to mainstream investors.
"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.
