From the swimming pool to the social investment board table, former Olympic swimmer turned social entrepreneur Sharron Davies has been named one of UnLtd’s 2015 Big Venture Challenge winners.
Malaysia's Prime Minister launches three year social enterprise strategy, Social Enterprise UK join forces with Social Enterprise West Midlands and social investment saves dementia support centre from closure in the north of England.
Three years since Big Society Capital was founded, CEO Nick O’Donohoe has announced the social investment bank is launching "a Conversation" with stakeholders to ensure that it is more transparent going forward.
With new social enterprise legislation being debated by the Italian government in the coming months, there is no better time for the Social Enterprise World Forum to return to Europe. Pioneers Post catches up with CEO Elena Casolari.
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.
Rob Wilson has been reappointed Minister for Civil Society following the UK general election last week, but a quickfire response to one of his constituents on Twitter has led to over 5,000 people demanding his resignation.
Those that argue there are too many venture capitalists entering the impact investment space and in turn undermining it are harming the growth of the sector writes CEO of ClearlySo Rodney Schwartz.
For the past three years the teams at Allia and Canaccord Genuity have been engineering a new social investment machine that is opening up big bucks for charities and making social investment more appealing to mainstream investors.
The time is ripe for social investment to take off. If it doesn't now, will it ever? Abi Rotheroe analyses the economic outlook and urges social ventures and their potential investors to make the most of the current state of interest rates.
