Social enterprises present a great opportunity to improve life in the UK. Now a group of MPs will collaborate to help realise their potential. Patrick Hurley, MP for Southport, explains why he wanted to chair the group. In my constituency of Southport and the wider area there are many social enterprises, cooperatives and community businesses … Continued
Why we’re asking government to make sure social enterprises are part of the Social Impact Investment Advisory Group
More diversity at leadership level could mean more money for the economy. Our latest report found that social enterprises are playing their part – particularly those led by women. Whatever your views on the diversity of Britain’s workforce, there’s a good reason to consider the findings from our last State of Social Enterprise report: it’s … Continued
Our chair Lord Victor Adebowale founded the Commission on Social Investment, which published a landmark report on how it could better enable the growth of social enterprises. Three years since this independent group found a major unfulfilled opportunity and called for change, the Commission’s recommendations have been reviewed to identify what has changed and what … Continued
Our new report uses elite education as a proxy to investigate aspects of diversity not yet well analysed in the social investment sector: socio-economic inclusion
We hosted an event with centre-right think-tank Onward this week to explore how social enterprises and other mission-led businesses can help build a more resilient society, as part of our Future Economy Alliance campaigning to push our way of working up the economic policy agenda.
Pioneering social investor, Key Fund, is working to actively address the barriers to investment faced by social entrepreneurs from ethnic minorities
Thousands of young homeless people in London are to continue to benefit from a new state-of-the-art home following a seven-figure funding package from Unity Trust Bank.