Latest

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

Location: IET Glasgow: Teacher Building, 14 Saint Enoch Square, Glasgow G1 4DB

Time: 10.00am to 1.00pm

Location: Bamburgh House, Market Street, Newcastle NE1 6BH 

Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm

Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) was recently ranked 4th out of 46 in a Europe-wide study on the effectiveness of tax incentives to foster investment into SMEs and start-ups. It is also the only tax relief of all those reviewed that is specifically targetted at charities and social enterprises. So this is definitely something to celebrate!