PART 1: She’d gone to bed at 10pm but been woken by her three-year-old puking during the early hours. Today, she must deliver for her tech-based social enterprise at a big meeting with investors. So how will it go for this purpose-led CEO?
Hollywood actress turned entrepreneur tells GSG Summit that the notion you have to “leave your good character at the door” to be successful is a “really tired model”.
Social entrepreneur Jess Thompson, recently hospitalised with Covid-19, on how her fear and a sense of powerlessness were brought into sharp relief through conversations with the refugee chefs at Migrateful.
“If we just backed off a little bit, everybody would have more.” Founder of Blue Ventures Alasdair Harris explains why conservation makes good business sense for the millions of people living in coastal communities around the world.
"This is not a sprint. I burn out every few months and that hurts our business." Nicki Kopcke, the founder of Masi Maz, offers valuable advice about starting a social business at the first NatWest SE100 Insight event of 2016.
UnLtd has today announced the name of its new chief executive. This follows other key leadership announcements in the UK social enterprise sector by the Cabinet Office and Social Investment Business in recent weeks.
87% of entrepreneurs running a social venture felt social entrepreneurship needs to be better understood by the public. UnLtd launches new strategy to take social entrepreneurship into the mainstream and wants young people on board.
Exclusive interview: Cliff Prior, CEO of UnLtd, is to be the new head honcho at Big Society Capital. Prior tells Pioneers Post that the age of the hero social entrepreneur is over – and he can make engagement with the social sector really work.
