Business School

  • How to be a brilliant social enterprise employer: Make flexible working the default

    Offering flexible working can give social enterprises a competitive advantage in the race to recruit the best employees – even if they can’t offer the highest rates of pay and benefits. Our webinar examined how to make it work.

  • Social enterprise and impact investing events in 2025

    Ready to network, learn and get inspired? Don't book your diary without the Pioneers Post roundup of social impact events coming soon – for social entrepreneurs, impact investors and all those working within the global impact economy.

  • Pioneers Post Business School: How to do good business, better

    The tools and insight you need to do good business, better. Get expert advice, practical insight and frontline examples on key business management topics from our network of social business practitioners and advisors. 

Failure

Why do some social investments fail?

Last year CAF Venturesome examined why some of its social investments have failed to repay in full. CAF's team focussed on financial “failure”, rather than failure to achieve social impact. What are the most common reasons loans don't get repaid?

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Investor Profile: Caroline Mason

After feeling completely disenchanted by the mainstream financial sector, CEO of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Caroline Mason explains why the world of social finance appealed. 

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5 Critical challenges faced by entrepreneurs

Calling all social entrepreneurs! Applications for UnLtd's Big Venture Challenge are now open. The programme's coordinators reflect on some of the key challenges faced by past participants of the business support programme.