Insight

When we found out that Human Lending Library alumni Lee Healey had achieved a decade as a social entrepreneur, we had to ask: how did you do it?

What the heck does JFDI mean? How did she make Halpern, which counts Google amongst its clients, successful? And which social causes is she passionate about? All the answers are here.

At our most recent Profit With Purpose event, four successful social entrepreneurs told an invited audience how they started and scaled their organisations. Here are their top tips.

Ian McLintock couldn't figure out how to get his venture to lift off. Serial digital entrepreneur Charles Mindenhall brought his experience to help figure it out.

Marketing, how to grow (or not), policy ... they pretty much covered the lot at the Social Enterprise World Forum in Addis Ababa.

Fewer are identifying as charities and more of them are starting up. And they could help a divided nation, according to the Minister for Northern Ireland.

Human Lending Library sessions last an hour but sometimes participants want more. So we decided to do something about it.

"You don't have to have come from money or education to do well." TV's interior design expert Celia Sawyer is the latest Expert to join our roster. Get to know her better here.

Three very different types of social enterprises told us how they got started at the British Library Startup Day. Childcare, risk and funding were all part of the conversation.

Concerned how you’re going to cope with a growing customer base? Let Rubies in the Rubble offer a little nugget of advice.

The best place in the world to be a social entrepreneur is revealed at SEWF; influencing corporates to behave better was mulled. And there was the unexpected return of the conga.