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Earlier this year, Access was granted £12m from Dormant Assets (alongside £8m for Big Society Capital) to bolster the energy resilience of charities and social enterprises. This page explores what that means in practice for Social Enterprises, Charities and Community Organisations and how they might...

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.

Comic Relief is looking at ways in which social investment could be an important tool to catalyse social innovation and support social organisations to become more sustainable. As a long-term funder of social change, they have historically provided grant funding to support social organisations both...

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.