The CEO of the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance speaks to Tim West about solving your own problems, how Africans turn “embarrassing” issues into entrepreneurial opportunities and how he came to realise his love and pride for Africa.
Good Stories podcast episode 6: With £1.3bn being pumped into one of Scotland's poorest areas, social enterprise The Granton Project is ensuring that local communities truly benefit. Our reporter David Lyons finds out more.
In our latest SE100 Social Business Coffee Break webinar, Homes for Good CEO Zoe Whyatt and NatWest Social and Community Capital bossVictoria Papworth share their experiences of taking on a top job and the lessons they’ve learned.
The co-founder of luxury recycled accessory brand Elvis and Kresse shares her ups and downs - and calls on fellow entrepreneurs to scale up their ambition.
Design Council CEO Sarah Weir had a career in finance before taking on several influential roles in the arts. On the sidelines of our WISE100 event, she tells us why she believes in 'sharing the stage' with other women.
If you took some of the UK’s leading women in social enterprise and put them around a dinner table, what would they talk about? For the first in our WISE conversations series in Edinburgh, we found out.
After more than a decade of social investment and purpose-driven business, what have we achieved and where have we failed? Mairi Mackay, Glenys Thornton, Indy Johar, Toby Eccles and Amit Bhatia discuss.
Edinburgh's hosting of the 2018 Social Enterprise World Forum drew to a close with a focus on the role of young people and a rousing handover ceremony to Ethiopia.
Astronaut, architect, archaeologist, bunny rabbit? We asked some leading figures in social enterprise what they wanted to be when they were growing up...
