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There are numerous gender-specific networks and schemes to support women in business, including our very own Women in Social Enterprise (WISE100) created in partnership with NatWest. But how important is it to get together without men in the room? Bonnie Chiu, managing director at The Social Investment Consultancy (TSIC) and founder of social enterprise Lensational, is an advocate for women’s-only...

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We launched a podcast featuring Liam Black's reflections on his book The Social Entrepreneur's A-Z in 2015 - and much of it still feels very relevant today. In this episode, hear his views on the social enterprise awards culture, and why we shouldn't believe the hype..P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support...

In the third podcast to accompany his book The Social Entrepreneur’s A to Z, Liam Black continues conversation with Dr Aravind Srinivasan, an eye surgeon and the director of projects at Aravind Eye Care System in India, and Sandra Schembri, former CEO of The House of St Barnabas in London. Aravind and Sandra reflect on the customer care that inspires them – from McDonalds’ ability to replicate pro...

NatWest and Pioneers Post are hosting a series of informal gatherings for our network of Women in Social Enterprise (WISE100) across the UK, and the first took place in Belfast last month. Over lunch, we learned more about some of the city’s inspirational women in social business and talked about breaking down barriers: from finding the courage to speak up when you feel outnumbered, to being bold...

Soundbites from leading social entrepreneurs, an Ambassador and a Baroness - plus a reality check from a Lord - as the Social Enterprise World Forum 2019 gets underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NatWest and Pioneers Post are hosting a series of informal gatherings for our network of Women in Social Enterprise (WISE100) across the UK, and the first took place in Belfast last month. Over lunch, we learned more about some of the city’s inspirational women in social business and talked about breaking down barriers: from finding the courage to speak up when you feel outnumbered, to being bold...

What really goes on in a boardroom? By drawing on the real-life experiences of social purpose leaders, our Agenda Item One series aims to challenge the conventional thinking and outdated governance practices seen all too often in today’s boardrooms. In the latest episode of Agenda Item One, Practical Governance co-founder Bob Thust is joined by two social enterprise experts who have spent countles...

Recently, Cafédirect and Greenwich Leisure Limited have had to switch up their marketing to keep up in competitive markets. We heard from two of the minds behind these strategies at our Good Stories conference earlier this year. Thanks for listening to our stories. As an entrepreneur yourself, you'll know that producing quality work doesn’t come free. We rely on our subscribers to sustain our jour...

Our new podcast series, led by Bob Thust of Practical Governance, reads between the lines of the traditional board meeting minutes to explore what’s really going on. In this episode: excuses we make not to invite the people we’re meant to be supporting to join our board. P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to suppo...

Academic and social entrepreneur Dr. Pragya Agarwal is passionate about bringing more women from BAME or marginalised communities into social enterprise. Speaking to attendees of NatWest’s WISE100 launch in 2018, she offered some suggestions for how to make this possible. P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to supp...

At our latest WISE dinner – this time in London – dinner guests discussed the importance of making more women visible. P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to...

Should social enterprise be added to school curriculums? A group of experts from across the globe weigh in. P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delive...

Design Council CEO Sarah Weir took to the stage accompanied by three other women for her speech at the launch of this year's WISE100 list. We spoke to her afterwards to find out why. P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism...

If you took a group of the UK’s leading women in social enterprise and put them around a dinner table, what would they talk about? For the first in our 'WISE conversations' series hosted by the Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh, we found out...P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, i...

If you were at our Good Deals and Beyond Good Business conference in March, you may have witnessed some of some of the biggest brains in social enterprise meet at our Where Capital Meets Purpose plenary session, hosted by Hatch Enterprise chair Jessica Brown. The British Council’s director of social and creative economies Dr Mairi Mackay, Baroness Glenys Thornton from the House of Lords, Dark Matt...

Amit Bhatia, CEO of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the British Council’s Dr Mairi Mackay, were both keynote speakers at Good Deals and Beyond Good Business, the UK’s leading social enterprise conference, which took place in London, in March 2018. Amit and Mairi took time out from the event to speak to Pioneers Post’s Julie Pybus about the power of private capital to tackle soc...

Tristan Ace of the British Council, Jonathan Wong of UNESCAP and Alex Hannant from New Zealand’s Akina Foundation explore how governments in the Asia-Pacific region can harness a new entrepreneurial spirit for social change. They also preview this year’s Social Enterprise World Forum which will be held in September in Christchurch New Zealand. P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pione...

When you're in the pursuit of achieving great social change, it can sometimes be easy to lose sight of the day-to-day business basics that keep your enterprise afloat. In the second of a series of podcasts to accompany his book The Social Entrepreneur's A to Z, Liam Black emphasises the importance of getting the business basics right. P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post...

In the first of a series of extracts from his latest book The Social Entrepreneur's A-Z, Liam Black shares his experiences of waking up at 4am with a head full of business worries – and how he deals with them. P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven b...

P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delivering the social enterprise news. We’d love you to support us – have a look on our website: www.pioneerspost....

P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delivering the social enterprise news. We’d love you to support us – have a look on our website: www.pioneerspost....

P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delivering the social enterprise news. We’d love you to support us – have a look on our website: www.pioneerspost....

The so-called "Arab Awakening" spread to Egypt on 25 January 2011. Seventeen days later, the country's dictator President Mubarak resigned from office. It was a monumental moment in history – but it marked the beginning, not the end, of Egypt's journey to democracy and stability. Two and half years on the country finds itself under the stewardship of an increasingly controlling theocracy and has r...