Local authorities should consider rewarding volunteers that improve parks and green spaces with a council tax rebate, thinktank Policy Exchange has suggested in a new report....
Mike Mompi of ClearlySo writes how social impact investment might just be making its way into the mainstream. In early July, I was fortunate enough to attend...
Charities, social enterprises and other businesses are invited to bring their stories to life through the medium of video, at a one-day course in Birmingham this...
Voting has opened in the Longitude Prize 2014, which offers a £10m reward to whoever can first or most effectively solve a great scientific challenge selected...
A 300-year-old competition that offered a cash reward to the innovator that solved the toughest scientific challenge of the day has been revived, now offering £10m...
A crowdfunding campaign offering investors equity in the UK’s leading crowdfunding network hit its £500,000 target in a matter of hours, as over 200 investors flocked...
Nesta, a charity that gives innovative ideas a platform, has announced its first social investments, totalling over £2m. The organisation has also predicted that social investment...
Alternative finance intermediaries, including sources such as crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and invoice trading, raised almost £1 billion in 2013, market data has revealed. According to a...
Start-up businesses in the UK are less profitable than those from the US and this is causing a gap to form in venture capital investment, according to innovation charity...
Social finance firm Investing for Good has launched a guide that aims to provide impact investors with best-practice information into the sector. The Good Investor, which...
One of the most creative minds of the last century, the late Apple chief Steve Jobs, once said that “innovation distinguishes between a leader and a...
One of Britain’s biggest renewable energy communities, Energyshare, has launched a competition that will reward five projects with funding of up to £5,000 through Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s...