The CEO of the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance speaks to Tim West about solving your own problems, how Africans turn “embarrassing” issues into entrepreneurial opportunities and how he came to realise his love and pride for Africa.
Good Stories podcast episode 6: With £1.3bn being pumped into one of Scotland's poorest areas, social enterprise The Granton Project is ensuring that local communities truly benefit. Our reporter David Lyons finds out more.
In our latest SE100 Social Business Coffee Break webinar, Homes for Good CEO Zoe Whyatt and NatWest Social and Community Capital bossVictoria Papworth share their experiences of taking on a top job and the lessons they’ve learned.
Once upon a time John Taylor Hospice embarked on a mission to raise awareness about prostate cancer in one of the UK's biggest cities, Birmingham. Now, as RBS SE100 award-winners, the team tell their story.
Earlier this year the SROI Network – soon to be Social Value UK – brought together individuals from the social enterprise, charity and corporate sectors in Milan, Italy to discuss the importance of true, honest impact measurement.
What does responsible capitalism look like and how can the social investment market be scaled to create more impact? These were some of the big issues up for debate at Good Deals 2014 – the UK's leading social investment conference.
Catch up on the action at last week's RBS SE100 Awards which celebrated the most resilient, fastest growing and innovative social enterprises in the UK.
Tim West, Pioneers Post's founder and editor, talks to M’Hammed Abbad Andaloussi in Mexico about running an NGO like a business and encouraging entrepreneurship in young people.
Iqbal Wahhab OBE is a successful restaurateur with a commitment to creating social value through business. He called in the expertise of Sarah Forster to determine just how social his profitable Borough Market restaurant is.
Against a backdrop of towering sky scrapers and bright lights, thousands of people from across the globe working with, in and around social enterprise gathered in Seoul, South Korea today, for day one of the Social Enterprise World Forum.
Different opinions, experiences and expert insight created a hotbed of ideas around how to start a movement at the second Dirty Rotten Social hosted at the House of St. Barnabas.
This week hundreds of social innovators will congregate in Mexico for the next Opportunity Collaboration gathering. At last year's event Pioneers Post's founding editor Tim West caught up with Tunisian social pioneer Leila Ben-Gacem.
