Social enterprise

The Growth Impact Fund invests in UK social enterprises and organisations from underrepresented backgrounds and has secured £8m investment from leading social investors

The LSE Marshall Institute’s ‘100x Impact Accelerator’ aims to help social enterprises, mainly from emerging markets, identify the best approaches to scale up their impact

Impact Investor’s Christian Nielsen visits The Skateroom, a Belgium-based social enterprise “uniting art and skateboarding for a better world”. It is a riot of good vibes, he writes

Lindsay Wake, head of impact for Social Investment Scotland, talks about how the organisation is driving mission-aligned investment across Scotland and their vision for an impact economy

Mark Norbury, CEO of social entrepreneurs foundation UnLtd, explains their innovative approach to social impact: giving entrepreneurs the tools to realise their potential and create lasting change 

A £25m fund launched by leading UK social investors backs early-stage social enterprises whose staff recruiting policies and management structures reflect the diversity of the sector they operate in

Seb Elsworth, CEO of Access – The Foundation for Social Investment, is on a mission to help charities and social enterprises increase and sustain their impact by becoming more financially resilient and self-reliant

As a young engineer Daniel Brewer was spotted by a leading philanthropist and set on a course to become one of the UK’s leading social impact figures, with a particular focus on helping social enterprises raise capital, and tackling homelessness

A pan-European initiative led by Social Enterprise UK supports large companies seeking to engage with social enterprises. The aim is to bring more social enterprises into the supply chain of multinationals

Payroll giving, or donating part of your wages to charity, may be common in other countries, but it didn’t exist in the Netherlands. Until Sandra van Beest spotted an opportunity and founded The Social Handshake.