Dolphin Living’s Retail Charity Bond raising £25m in 24 hours got our attention. But how can individuals get in on this impact investing stuff? To get some clarity, we talked to Phil Caroe, director of social finance at Allia.
The success of employee owned care organisation CASA is not only great news for them, it's a great example of how developed and flourishing the social investment market is, writes Antony Ross of Bridges Ventures.
Guardian columnist Owen Jones and actor Maxine Peake were among those to hit the UK’s high streets in an attempt to sell copies of The Big Issue as part of #VendorWeek last week.
A social enterprise bus operator in the UK has raised £10m investment from institutional investors and lenders, making this the largest growth capital investment in the UK impact investing sector.
The absence of figures from two major players leaves us wondering about the potentially huge pipline of money available; new figures from Key Fund very impressive.
There are too many social investors in a hot-air balloon that isn't rising; it needs to lose some ballast. Without compelling reasons to stay in the basket, they're getting kicked out. What happened next?
Big Issue boss Nigel Kershaw OBE joins us for a London cab ride down memory lane, recalling the early years of the UK's biggest social enterprise brand and the creation of its social merchant bank.
