IMPACT 101: Why do social enterprises acquire other entities, and how do mergers and acquisitions in this sector differ to commercial ones? What are the risks? Buzzacott's corporate finance team have the answers in our freshly updated Impact 101.
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.
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.
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.
The Tech For Good Challenge is a new way for your social business or charity to gain funding to take you to the next level. Your venture needs to be in its early-phase development and be using digital technology to help solve social issues for or with young people.
New legislation says they must procure for social value – but local authorities are not getting back the financial rewards of the social value they create.
Reading the Budget document may be a sobering experience but it's a glass half full rather than half empty for social enterprise. Professor Simon Denny offers his analysis.
Paul Henry and Chris Hardy explain how Social Investment Finance Intermediaries are bridging the gap between social ventures and investors to ensure social investment gets through to the right ventures.
The social venture sector competes on the basis that it delivers a social value and great business. Now that corporates are looking closely at social value due to the Social Value Act, Simon Denny advises social ventures to hold onto their clothes!
When times are hard and money short, many social entrepreneurs are too busy ‘fire-fighting’ to pay much attention to attempting to measure their social impact in any objective manner. Fred Seddon calls for a redoubling of efforts around measurement.
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