As the distinction between businesses and social enterprises is becomes increasingly blurred all sorts of opportunities are emerging for businesses to tackle social problems.

In this episode, I interview Thomas Gillan who is the Chief Officer for Finance and Strategy at Social Investment Scotland. During our conversation, we discuss various aspects of putting the 'social' into business including:

• The role of businesses versus social enterprises in solving social problems
• How measuring the success of a business is evolving to include measuring social impact
• The potential for businesses to define and formalise their social impact pledge
• The scope of social investment funds and providing finance to social enterprises
• Examples of businesses that put social impact at the core of their business.

You can check out the full show notes at http://alisoun.com/e026