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London or over phone/Skype

In September, we travelled to North America to find insights, examples and lessons to inform and improve our work in communities and places in the UK. 

Location: DWF, 5 St Paul's Square, Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L3 9AE

Time: 11.00am to 2.00pm

Location: The Corn Exchange, Northgate, Rochester ME1 1LS

Time: 9.00am-1.00pm

Big Society Capital, together with the Guy's & St Thomas' Charity and the Food Foundation have today (19^th November) released a new report: Healthy Returns: Opportunities for market-based solutions to childhood obesity.

John Bishop, managing director of social enterprise Evolve writes about being a social – and systems – entrepreneur. He also shares how social investment helped to scale up Evolve’s activities and the value of a mentor who helped him stay focused on the mission.

Birmingham or over phone/Skype

Big Society Capital has responded to the Government’s consultation: Social Housing Green Paper: a ‘new deal’ for social housing.

Location: The Passage, St Vincents Centre, Carlisle Place, London SW1P 1NL

Time: 9.30am-12.30pm

Big Society Capital's new Engagement Manager, Katie Fulford-Smith, shares her first impressions of the social impact investing world and her introduction to Good Finance at Good Finance Live in Newcastle.

This is the 6^th bi-annual release of the Social Investment Deal Level Data and now captures over 3,200 commitments to invest into charities & social enterprises totalling £1.7bn.

In 2012, Big Society Capital became the world’s first impact investment wholesaler dedicated to providing finance to the social sector and building the impact investing market. A year later, it was joined by the Social Impact Accelerator, a new entity within the European Investment Bank. In 2018, we expect two more to open. In 2019, it could easily be another four