Brave and creative initiatives have been launched by social enterprises in recent weeks. Here are seven to make you smile. 

FRC Group has won a string of awards recently, but success hasn't always come easy. CEO Shaun Doran tells us what it takes to lead a social business through ups and downs – and why its strategy includes helping other entrepreneurs too.

2020 marks the 10th year of the NatWest SE100 Social Business Awards. We look back at some of the winners of the past decade – and reveal 10 things you might not know about these champions of social enterprise. 

Brazil’s coastal city Rio de Janeiro might seem worlds apart from the UK’s London borough of Hackney. But on a recent visit, three Brazilian visitors are inspired by British women's work in social enterprise.

Do we still need to keep men out sometimes to help women progress in (social) business? Pioneers Post put the question to our guests at last month’s WISE100 dinner – and the jury’s still out.

Teresa Reynolds doesn't want young people to grow up struggling with the same self-esteem issues she did. We discover how her social enterprise is using makeup training to help people open up about how they feel about themselves.

Our final Chain Reaction interview in the run-up to the Social Enterprise World Forum, Zambian Likumbi Kapihya talks to Sabrina Chakori in Australia about why it takes courage and a 'bit of crazy' to pursue impact as well as profit.

Numerous barriers stop people from speaking up in the workplace. At a lunch hosted by NatWest and Pioneers Post, we hear how some of Northern Ireland’s women in social enterprise are tackling them.

Invisible Cities is a tour operator with a difference: all of its guides have experienced homelessness. We talked to founder Zakia Moulaoui – and WISE100 nominee – over a virtual lunch.