Recently, Cafédirect and Greenwich Leisure Limited have had to switch up their marketing to keep up in competitive markets. We heard from two of the minds behind these strategies at our Good Stories conference earlier this year.Thanks for listening to our stories. As an entrepreneur yourself, you'll know that producing quality work doesn’t come free. We rely on our subscribers to sustain our journalism – so if you think it's worth having an independent, specialist media platform that covers social enterprise stories, please consider subscribing. You'll also be buying social: Pioneers Post is a social enterprise itself, reinvesting all our profits into helping you do good business, better.

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Our new podcast series, led by Bob Thust of Practical Governance, reads between the lines of the traditional board meeting minutes to explore what’s really going on. In this episode: excuses we make not to invite the people we’re meant to be supporting to join our board.P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delivering the social enterprise news. We’d love you to support us – have a look on our website: www.pioneerspost.com/subscribe.

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Academic and social entrepreneur Dr. Pragya Agarwal is passionate about bringing more women from BAME or marginalised communities into social enterprise. Speaking to attendees of NatWest’s WISE100 launch in 2018, she offered some suggestions for how to make this possible.P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delivering the social enterprise news. We’d love you to support us – have a look on our website: www.pioneerspost.com/subscribe.

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At our latest WISE dinner – this time in London – dinner guests discussed the importance of making more women visible.P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delivering the social enterprise news. We’d love you to support us – have a look on our website: www.pioneerspost.com/subscribe.

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Should social enterprise be added to school curriculums? A group of experts from across the globe weigh in.P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delivering the social enterprise news. We’d love you to support us – have a look on our website: www.pioneerspost.com/subscribe.

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Design Council CEO Sarah Weir took to the stage accompanied by three other women for her speech at the launch of this year's WISE100 list. We spoke to her afterwards to find out why.P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delivering the social enterprise news. We’d love you to support us – have a look on our website: www.pioneerspost.com/subscribe.

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If you took a group of the UK’s leading women in social enterprise and put them around a dinner table, what would they talk about?For the first in our 'WISE conversations' series hosted by the Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh, we found out...P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delivering the social enterprise news. We’d love you to support us – have a look on our website: www.pioneerspost.com/subscribe.

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If you were at our Good Deals and Beyond Good Business conference in March, you may have witnessed some of some of the biggest brains in social enterprise meet at our Where Capital Meets Purpose plenary session, hosted by Hatch Enterprise chair Jessica Brown.The British Council’s director of social and creative economies Dr Mairi Mackay, Baroness Glenys Thornton from the House of Lords, Dark Matter Labs co-founder Indy Johar and Social Finance co-founder Toby Eccles met to speak on the theme of combining capital with social purpose, followed by a Q+A with audience members.If you missed the conference or would like to hear their pearls of wisdom again, don’t worry. Pioneers Post recorded every word and have packaged it up in this podcast just for our listeners.P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delivering the social enterprise news. We’d love you to support us – have a look on our website: www.pioneerspost.com/subscribe.

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Amit Bhatia, CEO of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the British Council’s Dr Mairi Mackay, were both keynote speakers at Good Deals and Beyond Good Business, the UK’s leading social enterprise conference, which took place in London, in March 2018. Amit and Mairi took time out from the event to speak to Pioneers Post’s Julie Pybus about the power of private capital to tackle social issues, the role of creativity in building a purposeful economy and why millennials might be a big sign of hope for the social impact movement...We have released the podcast this week to coincide with the G20’s Development Working Group, where Mairi and Amit are meeting again. They’ll be discussing how to put social impact investment on the global agenda as a key approach to help countries transition to impact economies.For more podcasts, videos and articles on global social enterprise, head to the Global Perspectives collection produced in partnership with the British Council, on www.pioneerspost.comP.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delivering the social enterprise news. We’d love you to support us – have a look on our website: www.pioneerspost.com/subscribe.

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Tristan Ace of the British Council, Jonathan Wong of UNESCAP and Alex Hannant from New Zealand’s Akina Foundation explore how governments in the Asia-Pacific region can harness a new entrepreneurial spirit for social change. They also preview this year’s Social Enterprise World Forum which will be held in September in Christchurch New Zealand.P.S. This video is brought to you by the team at Pioneers Post – a social enterprise set up to deliver great journalism to support social entrepreneurs, impact investors and mission-driven businesses. Good journalism like this costs money, and we rely on subscriptions in order to keep delivering the social enterprise news. We’d love you to support us – have a look on our website: www.pioneerspost.com/subscribe.

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