UK social enterprises are outperforming mainstream businesses on job creation, start-up rates and in promoting diversity, but key challenges around access to finance and public sector contracts remain barriers to the continued growth of the sector.

A new study has revealed that high net worth individuals are put off impact investments due to concerns about complexity and a Cambodian social enterprise circus heads to the US.

The hero model is dead, long live collective impact. Co-founder of the SOCAP conference and long time disrupter Kevin Doyle Jones talks to Ellie Ward about hero worshipping, market taming and impact investment trends and challenges. 

Scotland’s social enterprise census reveals the sector provides more than 100,000 jobs and a new $1m fund for young social entrepreneurs is launched in New Zealand.

A new report by the Social Market Foundation and Big Society Capital calls for the introduction of Social Pension Funds in the UK to provide much needed capital for charities and social enterprises.

A pioneering community owned energy platform has been launched in the UK to provide more than 5,000 low-income homes with solar panels.

Can the data collection methods of a fisherman be used by a healthcare professional? 'Yes' argues a group of leading foundations and NGOs, which have clubbed together to launch a new social purpose peer-to-peer platform.