Lee Mannion is a social enterprise correspondent for Reuters.
Scotland aims to have a social enterprise - or business that seeks to do good while also making a profit - in every school nationwide by 2026 as part of its 10-year plan to promote the se...
Broadband for the Rural North provides broadband to rural villages in England.
Innovative approaches are being used to tackle knife crime in the United Kingdom.
A British maker of sanitary products has placed adverts in newspapers featuring a cut-out pad to raise awareness of "period poverty" in a country where one in 10 girls have had to use toi...
Fewer than one in 10 women prisoners have a job to go to on release.
Danish company, Be My Eyes, uses video calling to provide assistance in situations that require vision.
The world's first-ever Development Impact Bond provided $270,000 to fund an initiative by the charity, Educate Girls.
With the World Cup captivating the world, these projects are harnessing the community and spirit of the beautiful game.
Just one in four Libyan women are employed, according to the World Bank.
A survey from HSBC shows that a quarter of entrepreneurs under 35 are motivated by social impact.
Social Bite has been employing homeless people since its creation in 2012, and has now gone one step further.
The richest 1% of the world's population owns half of its wealth, but we're living in a 'global age of philanthropy'.
Britain has appointed a minister for loneliness to take forward the work of murdered MP Jo Cox.
A London-based innovation employs homeless people, who thanks to a box they wear around their neck, can collect a wage and charitable donations using contactless payment.
This social enterprise is helping London's homeless save up for rent in the capital.
