• Business and finance unite as UN Ocean Conference seeks to plug ‘life below water’ funding gap

    Momentum grows among companies and investors to back a sustainable “blue economy” – while governments turn to the private sector to mobilise capital towards the most underfunded SDG at international gathering in Nice last week.

  • Social entrepreneurs and impact leaders celebrated in King’s Birthday Honours list 2025

    OBEs, CBEs and MBEs awarded to UK impact leaders and social entrepreneurs for their public service.

  • In conversation with Sir Ronald Cohen’s AI chatbot

    Sir Ronald Cohen, the impact investing pioneer, is pre-launching an artificial intelligence avatar which discusses his ideas and reflections. We put it to the test.

  • ‘Inaction is the death knell of leadership’ – Matty McEvoy, CEO of mental health platform Together All

    Good Leaders Clinic, Episode 4: How to keep sane as the CEO of a mission-driven mental health platform, when spiralling demand puts pressure on your mission? Matty McEvoy of Together All talks about enshrining purpose in a growing company.

  • Taking on the ticketing giants: Humanitix, a social enterprise event ticketing platform, launches in UK

    Humanitix opens UK office in Edinburgh with announcement of £500,000 annual prize for UK social enterprises and charities, and promise of focus on events accessibility for people with disabilities

The Impact World This Week: 19 June 2025

This week: discover the ‘first professor for the impact economy’, survey reveals young changemakers risk online backlash and financial struggles, global universities ranked according to positive impact – and much more.

The Impact World This Week: 12 June 2025

This week: Church of England prepares for controversy over reparations fund; catalytic EU funding creates three Eastern European impact funds; Hey Girls’ Celia Hodson’s next move; DEI nosedive; a new funders platform for Asia, and more.