Ahead of International Women’s Day last weekend, we spoke to 4 female social entrepreneurs from across the UK to bring the Home Nations centre stage for the occasion.
Along with determination and hard work, it takes a whole lot of love to run a successful social enterprise. In this post, we’re excited to feature the stories of three social enterprises that were built with lots of love at their very core.
Ishita Ranjan is the Project Manager of Good Finance. She manages the website and content strategy, coordinates partners and stakeholders, and drives the direction of the project. In this post, she reflects on Good Finance's five key learnings from 2019.
Henna Patel, Communications Coordinator at School for Social Entrepreneurs, shares learnings from experts and social entrepreneurs with first hand experience with social impact measurement.
We’ve all heard of Comic Relief , the major UK charity fighting for a world free from poverty. Through a busy calendar of events, Comic Relief has been fundraising to support organisations around the world since the 1980s. Interestingly, in recent years, Comic Relief has formed a social investment...
From curtain makers to music producers, there’s an exciting range of individuals and organisations using creative & innovative solutions to drive social change across the UK. No doubt this is a sector continuing to grow.
What makes a social investor different? To start, social investors want to make investments that have both a social and financial return. In fact, many of the organisations making social investments are social businesses themselves.
HQ Recording provides a relaxed professional studio located in the heart of Leicester. This video features an interview with their award-winning founder, Yasin El Ashrafi, and one of the young people he manages. HQ Familia is the recording label that was originally set-up as an outlet for the...
At a time of political, environmental and economic crisis, we all need to do our bit to build a better world. With inequality on the rise and a climate emergency on our hands, social enterprises are providing us with the hope and solutions we need.