Blogs and media

We’re looking for knowledgeable individuals with expertise across a variety of areas to join our Steering Group!

We’re looking for knowledgeable individuals with interest in social investment and experience of content creation, e-learning or project management to join our team working on key projects.

The Addressing Imbalance programme launched in 2021 with the aim of connecting and engaging with organisations led by diverse founders, to address the barriers to accessing investment that they face disproportionately. Our goal is to provide learning and resources to empower leaders with the tools...

In this post, we bust 7 social investment myths we hear time and time again from our users!

For International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month 2022, the School for Social Entrepreneurs had a chat with five changemakers in the social enterprise scene to hear about their journeys and how they’re breaking the bias.

In light of #IWD2022, we, along with our co-funders, ACCESS, have shared the inspiring leaders within the social investment sector that #BreakTheBias every single day.

Introducing our brand-new Scoping Social Investment tool, designed for membership bodies, community/voluntary networks and social sector support organisations.

Becky Pickin, Group Development Officer at Dudley CVS , shares her thoughts and reflections following the recent Let's Talk Good Finance: Risk, Resilience and Social Investment event!

At the end of 2021 some of the country’s leading social enterprises gathered at London’s iconic Guildhall for the UK Social Enterprise Awards. The Awards were a chance to come together and celebrate the incredible work of the social enterprise community.

Henna at School for Social Entrepreneurs spoke to three social entrepreneurs in the region who’ve used social investment to increase impact and income, to learn about their experiences.

We explore 12 top tips from Social Enterprises and Charities that have ‘been there’, ‘done that’ and ‘got the T-shirt’ when it comes to securing social investment.

Social Enterprise UK’s latest State of the Sector report titled ‘No Going Back’ was recently published, and in this post, we explore the key finance themes and takeaways for the rest of 2021 and beyond...