An A-list actor commits to social enterprise, a foundation diverts a twelfth of its wealth into impact investing and Churchill sends social entrepreneurs travelling worldwide to seek out social impact.
The minister for civil society announces a review, just two years after the last one. Former communities secretary Hazel Blears and Chris Catterall of Public Services Lab offer their suggestions at Social Value Summit.
The government wants to know how to support mission-led for profit businesses and has commissioned a review. Peter Holbrook wonders why no "authentic" social businesses are on the panel.
The Buy Social Corporate Challenge aims to get leading corporates to spend £1bn on social enterprises by 2020. Social Enterprise UK's Nick Temple explains more following yesterday's launch in Downing Street.
"Social enterprises need access to smaller loans and blends of loan and grant which can help them to grow," concludes a new report published by Social Enterprise UK and the Access Foundation.
Legislation ensuring public service commissioners consider the social impact of services they buy in seems a no-brainer. We consider the state of the Social Value Act – which has been criticised for lacking 'teeth' – ahead of the Social Value Summit.
More than 400 people from the UK social enterprise sector gathered in London last night to celebrate the achievements of outstanding ventures at the 2015 Social Enterprise UK Awards. Find out who took home the trophies here.
Baroness Glenys Thornton has long been a champion of social enterprise in the UK. The Labour peer and current CEO of The Young Foundation takes us to some of the places in East London that have shaped her career.