Small businesses, social enterprises, and charities are vital to our communities. They are also hit hardest by the current coronavirus pandemic and are struggling to access much needed emergency finance to survive this crisis. We put together some useful funding resources for social purpose organisations and investors.

It is four months since the Impact Investing Institute had its official launch in Sheffield and London, and like everyone else, we are responding to the coronavirus pandemic and its devastating human and economic costs on communities around the world. 

This report, by the Impact Investing Institute in partnership with Deloitte, highlights that while progress in impact reporting practice is being made, the…

Progress in impact reporting practice will be insufficient to meet society’s global challenges without significant collaborative action by keystone players A new…

Comparing different companies’ ESG credentials is akin to comparing apples and pears. But efforts are being made to find the right tools to…

Impact investing – which offers social and environmental benefits as well as financial returns – is still developing but the UK’s newly created Impact Investing Institute,…

A piece in this weekend’s Financial Times shows that there are still some pretty basic misunderstandings around impact investment, which must be…

First announced in June, the UK’s newest impact investing body launches this week. We met CEO (and former business journalist) Sarah Gordon,…

Year after year, research highlights the gap between what impact investment consumers want and what they are being offered by advisers, banks…

The UK’s social investment movement is gathering pace and the launch of the Impact Investing Institute this week has the potential to…

Most people, when given the option, want their savings to make a positive difference to the world. Why then do so few…

Companies seeking to promote sustainability deliver better returns over the long term “It’s not up to us to save the world.” This…