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An ambitious £100 million programme of loans and investment is announced today to help get much-needed emergency funding to social enterprises, charities and small businesses in disadvantaged areas affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

It is four months since the Impact Investing Institute had its official launch in Sheffield and London, and like everyone else, we are responding to the coronavirus pandemic and its devastating human and economic costs on communities around the world. 

The Impact Investing Institute is very pleased to see the Charity Commission encourage charity trustees to consider whether their investments are informed by and consistent with their charity’s purposes and values (see this blog by Sian Hawkrigg, Strategic Policy Advisor on behalf of the Commission).

Read the full report hereDownload Progress in impact reporting practice will be insufficient to meet society’s global challenges without significant collaborative action by keystone players A new report from the Impact Investing Institute and Deloitte explores current practice in technology-enabled impact reporting.

Comparing different companies’ ESG credentials is akin to comparing apples and pears. But efforts are being made to find the right tools to collect sufficient data and achieve a standard methodology, as Silvia Pavoni reports.

Impact investing – which offers social and environmental benefits as well as financial returns – is still developing but the UK’s newly created Impact Investing Institute, created from a merger of two related bodies, is working to accelerate this, as its CEO Sarah Gordon tells Silvia Pavoni.

A piece in this weekend’s Financial Times shows that there are still some pretty basic misunderstandings around impact investment, which must be cleared up if the market is to grow as we want it to.

First announced in June, the UK’s newest impact investing body launches this week. We met CEO (and former business journalist) Sarah Gordon, who spoke to us about the rise of enlightened boardrooms, why she’s so keen to avoid reinventing the wheel – and why the startup will soon be having a few words with its…

The Impact Investing Institute which aims to accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of impact investing, launches this week at events in Sheffield and London. The Institute is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness of, addressing barriers to, and increasing confidence in investing for impact.

Year after year, research highlights the gap between what impact investment consumers want and what they are being offered by advisers, banks and pension funds. The UK’s new Impact Investing Institute hopes to bring everyone to the table to change this.