Peter Holbrook, CEO of Social Enterprise UK, is among the leaders from the social economy to be honoured in the 2015 New Year Honours. He is joined by a pioneer in the health sector and the dragon who swapped TV fame for social business.
In the final round-up of 2015 a target is set for India's biggest ever impact investment fund and a Brazilian cosmetics giant becomes the world's largest B Corp.
Profit with purpose – a dangerous shift away from the carefully nurtured social economy or the future for social entrepreneurs looking for investment as they try to break into the market?
Academics in Bangladesh call for policy guidelines around corporate social responsibility, the US government invest in 25 Asian social enterprises and in the UK David Cameron chimes in on social enterprise success in the north.
A £10m investment to help give social enterprises, cooperatives and charities access to crucial financial resources has been made by the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Canada is a world-class exporter of impact investment ideas and initiatives, writes Canadian social entrepreneur Adam Spence. And it's starting with partnerships in the USA.
What does responsible capitalism look like and how can the social investment market be scaled to create more impact? These were some of the big issues up for debate at Good Deals 2014 – the UK's leading social investment conference.
Australia's first permanent marketplace exclusively for social enterprises is launched in time for the Christmas shopping rush and tech start-ups looking to solve social issues are brought together in Israel.
The chancellor George Osborne plans to raise threshold for eligible investments in social enterprises to £5m a year under social investment tax relief.
