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More people in the world own a mobile phone than own a toilet. We meet the Aussie loo paper pioneers on a mission not only to encourage people to use recycled paper, but to help build toilets [...]

A social enterprise is transforming human waste into a clean, affordable fuel in Kenya. It smells like the future, discovers Oliver Balch

They aren’t your neurotypical consultants. An IT consultancy that only employs people on the autism spectrum has won a national award

The 2017 European Social Innovation Competition aims to reward startups from across Europe that are working to make the digital economy accessible to all

A Serbian social enterprise links skilled craftspeople with modern designers in a bid to reboot the beleaguered rural economy. Could a crowdfunding campaign scale operations up?

Starting your own social enterprise at 17 may have its challenges, but Malawi-born Ellen Chilemba says careful listening and involving the community can yield positive results

From power tools to kitchenware, Londoners can now hire from a new ‘borrowing shop’ instead of buying

Agile social enterprises are well placed to help smooth the way forward in our alien post-Brexit landscape

Social enterprises – organisations that use business means to provide social and environmental benefit – are set to receive a boost from the corporate world

Social enterprise Find Your Spark helps at-risk young people through coaching psychology programmes that aim to raise their wellbeing and aspirations and enable them to realise their passions and [...]

The Integrate Movement is helping facilities such as schools and housing associations take a mental health-led approach, so that excluded people get the help they need. Nicola Slawson talks to [...]

Social enterprise Room for Tea connects young people undertaking internships and in need of short-term, affordable accommodation with hosts who have a spare room in their homes

Social enterprise Supply Shack is re-distributing profits to good causes and helping others do the same

A new social enterprise bakery in east London is revitalising both the local area and the employment prospects of many young people

Non-profit organisation InsightSTEM provides a host of explorative learning techniques to help people become more comfortable with science, technology, engineering and mathematics – and not a [...]

Social enterprise Year Here encourages promising graduates into the social sector to apply themselves to the most pressing social issues of the day

A morning cup of coffee can make or break some people’s day, but for those involved in We Walk the Line, it can make the difference to their whole lives

Think. Eat. Drink aims to deliver high-quality catering that doesn't cost the Earth. Bethany Wrede Peterson chats to founder Jamie Grainger-Smith to find out how it's done

Social enterprise Petit Miracles offers a new lease of life to furniture, and to the long-term unemployed people responsible for renovating it

Five innovative programmes are aiming to diffuse the “ticking time bomb” of Africa’s youth employment crisis