Good Stories podcast episode 7: Colombia is famous for its top quality coffee, but the brew can offer more than just a pick-me-up. Anna Patton meets the co-founders of Urbania, who are creating jobs for conflict victims plus protecting vital ecosystems.
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.
As Pioneers Post podcasts from the RBS SE100 Insight Series arrive on Soundcloud and iTunes, Matt Black introduces five stellar listens from the wonderful world of podcasts.
At the first ever RBS SE100 Insight event, businesses featured on the RBS SE100 Index (the UK's social enterprise index) heard leaders of change share their experience of failure, success and social progress.
Video: What do you do after you've led some of the largest companies in the world? Use your experience and network to to help 1 million women set up their own enterprises. That's Percy Barnevik's story.
P3, Right Track and Patchwork people were named leaders in social enterprise for their strong growth, high standards of social impact reporting and solid business arrangements at this year's RBS SE 100 awards.
Pioneers Post reporter Isabelle de Grave went to the 'pigs and rockets' pitching session to hear who would convince the judges to give them £50k in social investment.
Imagine receiving £500 to spend time putting together a peer network. Well, that's exactly what UnLtd in the UK have done with three top social ventures who are taking peer learning to the next level.
Pioneers Post hears from St Giles Trust, Social Finance's expert data-crunchers and ex-offenders to find out why the Peterborough prison social impact bond pilot it working.
