Bite-sized stories this week – featuring a Middle East opportunity for wellbeing-focused enterprises, scale-up support for those helping people with complex needs, royal accolades for social enterprise leaders, and more.
Bite-sized stories this week: Google's new SDG accelerator, calls to overhaul UK company law, 'radical hospitality' in San Francisco grows, and Scotland's social enterprise awards.
Plus: Bridges raises £35m for second social outcomes fund, Palladium's first impact fund targets $40m for African small businesses, Scotland's first community-owned school building and impactful chocolate in Indonesia...
Students have always been radical – but now they’re taking matters into their own hands through social entrepreneurship, says Manchester Business School’s Dr Robert Phillips.
It’s been nearly three years since the world's first impact investment fund for arts and culture began backing projects. Two key lessons have emerged, explains Nesta's director of arts and culture programmes.
Eight arts organisations have taken loans from the Arts Impact Fund. So who's getting how much at what rate and over how long? And more importantly, what sort of social impact will we see being created?
What would our cities look like if people from all walks of life could propose, debate and vote on decisions to improve the places where they live? It's already happening, writes Peter Baeck of Nesta.
A new report released by the UK government finds that there are more places than ever to go to for business support and funding. And a significant number of them are working with social enterprises.
