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.
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Conjuring up a brilliant idea that you believe will solve some of the biggest social and environmental issues facing the world is one thing. Transforming that idea into a practical, profit-generating business model is something else altogether.
As the National Audit Office runs its second investigation into the funding of the Big Society Network, Liam Black recalls his time as a Nesta trustee asked to fund the network at a critical time in Nesta's own history.
The FRC Group, one of the UK's most established social enterprises that supports disadvantaged groups in Liverpool, has released its first fully integrated social and financial annual report. What's the verdict?
Since taking on social investment, FareShare is gutsier than ever as it approaches the challenge of salvaging the 400,000 tonnes of food wasted in the UK food industry.
Tim West, Pioneers Post's founder and editor, talks to M’Hammed Abbad Andaloussi in Mexico about running an NGO like a business and encouraging entrepreneurship in young people.
Iqbal Wahhab OBE is a successful restaurateur with a commitment to creating social value through business. He called in the expertise of Sarah Forster to determine just how social his profitable Borough Market restaurant is.
Against a backdrop of government cuts and diverse financial innovations, six current funding trends could translate into opportunities for charities and social businesses.
Ellie Ward talks to Alquity CEO Paul Robinson about making more people realise that there is a better, fairer way to invest financial resources – an approach that will ultimately create a fairer global economy.