Insight

Marie Cudennec Carlisle, CEO of social enterprise Goldfinger, advises to take inspiration from trees: establish strong roots, cultivate your ecosystem and create an attractive sense of place.

Rich Grahame, CEO of Settle, explains how his team produced the homelessness charity's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategy.

After eight years growing The Girls Network, CEO and co-founder Charly Young offers tips for scaling and creating more positive social impact.

How you set up your social enterprise might affect your funding opportunities and if you're not financially literate, better find someone who is...

Richard Carter, Managing Director of Equiniti Credit Services, has 30 years of fintech business experience but, as he told us, that hasn't stopped him suffering imposter syndrome.  

Market research, financial planning, pricing structure ... here's everything you need to know about writing the perfect business plan.

Tina Chen, founder of drinks company HumaniTEA, tell us how she got the BBC interested in her company – and saw a boost in business as a result.

We wanted a way to share the knowledge and insight that comes out of our mentoring sessions with more people. Introducing Bitesize Business Lessons.

How can you grow your social enterprise? At iSE's 'Stronger Together' conference, we asked two social entrepreneurs how they'd achieved it. Read on for strategy, tips and insight...

How do you successfully pitch for funding or investment? We spoke to Jemma Phibbs of School Space, who has secured £1m of it.

Jacqueline de Rojas had a challenging start in life – but it made her determined to make something of herself. She told us about learning from adversity and how vulnerability can be a strength. 

How do you get people to sit up and take notice of what you are doing? We asked communications expert Jenny Halpern Prince for some tips.