Following the announcement of a £10m investment earlier this year, HCT Group has some more big news: the appointment of Sir Vince Cable as Chair.

The winner of Chivas' The Venture is a unique organisation from Colombia producing easy-assembly houses from discarded plastic.

"Let us... see if we can create a bigger, stronger society with compassion at its heart," minister for civil society Rob Wilson said at an event where the government talked up its efforts to include social enterprises in its supply chain.

100 solutions for a better world, India's first B Corp, the other problem that social enterprises have apart from money and a 'good' hotel that is being floated from Amsterdam to London. It's all in the round-up.

As the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group meets in Lisbon we can exclusively reveal who's involved in the UK contingent of the body that is aiming to make impact investing a global force for change. 

How are we going to solve the problems that come with the increasing numbers of people moving into Europe? 30 organisations with potentially life changing ideas are being nurtured by the EU.

The social entrepreneur addressing homelessness with coffee tells us why you might find him singing out of his car window round the streets of London and how Dismaland proved a happy experience for him.

At the NatWest SE100 Social Business Club Insight event in Bristol, the social entrepreneurs behind successful social enterprises Vi-Ability, 2nd Chance and Co-Wheels shared their travails and triumphs with an audience that was all ears.

“The idea is to move capital to the social entrepreneur rather than this late 19th century idea of the entrepreneur coming to London with his begging bowl to get a financier interested in his project,” said Social Stock Exchange CEO Tomás Carruthers.