Grants of between £5,000 and £50,000 are being offered to social enterprises across the UK thanks to a new Coronavirus Response Fund launched by NatWest Social and Community Capital, the bank's social investment charity.
Covid-19 restrictions could be a chance to overhaul all those niggling issues in the ‘restaurant’ of your life. Episode three of ‘Kitchen Nightmare, Lockdown Edition’ asks: which customers will you invite back once you re-open for business?
It's one of the best-known social enterprises in Britain, but when Covid-19 hit, The Big Issue risked rapid failure. We follow the journey through a crucial ten days and explore what the still uncertain future holds.
Numerous digital platforms have emerged as a go-to response to the Covid-19 crisis – building on conventional platform characteristics, but using alternative, more inclusive organisational models. Will they stick?
Some 72% of those responding to a survey by the Global Impact Investing Network said they were unlikely to decrease or were likely to increase the capital they had planned to commit this year. PLUS size of global market now estimated at $715bn.
Covid-19 restrictions could be the chance you never knew you needed to overhaul all those niggling issues in the ‘restaurant’ of your life. Katherine Burnard presents the Kitchen Nightmare episode that asks tough questions about your values.
Leading scientists at Imperial College London developing a Covid-19 vaccine have chosen a social enterprise structure for “maximum flexibility” and to remain affordable to the world’s poorest.
