Impact investment infrastructure receives a boost in Canada, New Zealand's Labour Party warns of the potential dangers of social impact bonds and London prepares to host a social enterprise market.
The ‘father of social investment’ Sir Ronald Cohen has opened The Foundry, a new social justice hub in London that aims to foster social innovation and social sector collaboration.
Social enterprises and trade unions should work "much more closely" together and find common ground, said CEO of Social Enterprise UK Peter Holbrook CBE at the Greenwich University Social Enterprise Festival this week.
The On Purpose Associate leadership programme for professionals seeking careers in social enterprise has launched in the French capital and seeks its next cohort of change makers. Ellie Ward talks to CEO Tom Rippin.
This month, the University of Greenwich in London is hosting its first Social Enterprise Festival as part of a wider strategy to integrate social entrepreneurship into its academic agenda.
If you want to "transform lives in a way that hasn’t been achieved before, you need the disruption that social investment creates," says Jeremy Swain from Thames Reach. He talks investment readiness and SIBs with Ellie Ward.
International cosmetics company LUSH has opened its biggest shop to date on London’s Oxford Street. Pioneers Post talks to founder Mark Constantine and son Simon about ethical supply chains and driving social change through business.
The Real Lettings Property Fund is tackling homelessness in a different way. It has provided secure tenancies in its own properties for 240 of London's homeless people to date, and has now closed to new investors.
Fashion designer and environmental activist Vivienne Westwood calls for more people to speak out against irresponsible corporations and Edward Snowden speaks about the future of mass surveillance at FutureFest in London.
