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.
In the fourth of a series of podcasts to accompany his new book, Liam Black talks to founder of Fair Finance Faisel Rahman OBE about social enterprise PR culture and VIP awards ceremonies – you've just got to develop a good bullshit detector.
The 2015 Sankalp Global Forum is well underway in Delhi – putting policy makers, social entrepreneurs and impact investors in the spotlight and exploring innovative solutions to pressing social and environmental challenges.
The further away you are from the frontline, the better things seem on the ground. Liam Black brings Aravind Srinivasan and Sandra Schembri back into the studio to discuss the importance of immersing yourself in frontline customer service.
In the second podcast of the Social Entrepreneur's A to Z series, Liam Black talks to eye surgeon Dr Aravind Srinivasan and Sandra Schembri from The House of St Barnabas about the importance of cashflow and other business basics.
Led by a group of successful social entrepreneurs, including Michelle Morgan from Livity, the third Dirty Rotten Socials event at London’s House of St Barnabas discussed innovative business ideas with social impact at their core.
Just realised four years of your life could go down the drain? About to tell all staff you are cutting their pay? Meet Helen Trevaskis and Maff Potts, interviewed by Liam Black as he explores The Social Entrepreneur's A-Z chapter one: A is for Anxiety.
Pioneers Post headed to South Korea for the first Social Enterprise World Forum to be hosted in Asia and to explore the diverse social enterprise landscape developing to solve some of the country's biggest social issues.
Liverpool-based FRC Group is no stranger to political and economic uncertainty. In its 27 years of existence the 2014 RBS SE100 award winner has demonstrated unshakeable resilience and proved itself to be a champion of British social enterprise.
Being relatively new to the UK social enterprise sphere hasn't stopped Realise Futures from making its mark. Earlier this year Pioneers Post headed to Ispwich to visit the CIC that is boosting employment opportunities in the East.
