轉寄︰ £200k Big Issue Invest deal opens up new finance opportunities for pioneering social businesses

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主題︰ £200k Big Issue Invest deal opens up new finance opportunities for pioneering social businesses

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30/9/2011 It's been a year for innovative investments into social enterprise, and today Big Issue Invest (BII) and My Time CIC announce another. BII has taken shares in the business – so, on the face of it some kind of equity – but by creating what they call a 'redeemable preference share', My Time do not relinquish any ownership. We'll be exploring equity deals in more detail at our social investment conference Good Deals. We've got a fantastic agenda planned, not least Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus in our morning interview session. Today is the last day to take advantage of the Good Deals early bird ticket offer. It's been very, very popular and we advise booking now if you'd like to come. Also on LIVEWIRE we bring news of a corporate initiative to create 1,000 social enterprise jobs, details of a fascinating $25m impact investment fund and five tips to avoid digital distraction. Finally, from the pick of Your Blogs we choose David Floyd on Big Society realities and a link to the highly recommended POPse! report. Good Business Intelligence, a groundbreaking new website for people who want to build a better world through business and innovation, will launch in January 2012. Click to find out more. Impact investors unite to create $25m fund for African agriculture A bunch of the world’s leading impact investors have joined forces with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to invest $25m in a new growth fund to support African agriculture. More... 5 Strategies to Help Employees Keep Their Sanity in a World of Constant Connectivity Your employees are drowning in digital distraction – it’s time to throw them a lifeline. More... Two innovators break new ground with pioneering £200k investment Big Issue Invest (BII), part of The Big Issue group of companies, has announced a pioneering £200,000 investment in shares of the award winning My Time CIC – a Community Interest Company. More... Premium content from the website MORE FROM SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: Soldier of good fortune Video: making equity work in social enterprise Fairer deals for Fairtrade The Business RESOURCES YOU NEED TO EXCEL IN SOCIAL BUSINESS: Creating effective video for the web: Part One Video: John Sculley, former CEO of Apple on innovation, brand and shared value Five steps to a sustainable public sector mutuals market Business in the Community, Deloitte and BP launch Olympic social enterprise bid to create 1,000 new jobs Corporate giants Deloitte and BP have joined forces to back an ambitious social enterprise initiative promising 1,000 new jobs in the Olympic host boroughs. More... Good Deals for free The Good Deals bursary scheme offers five free places and five half-price places to social entrepreneurs and organisations with an annual income of less than £100,000. Find out how to get your free ticket here. Keeping going in the Big Society Public spending cuts lead to cuts in public services. Not a groundbreaking revelation but there’s a danger that hype-laden initiatives such as Big Society Capital and Social Impact Bonds serve as distractions from the day-to-day issues faced by millions of people who have been using public services and now find that those services are no longer there. More... POPse! final report is now out! This publication brings together a sample of material produced throughout the week. It will be sent to policymakers, influencers, practitioners and contributors who can move those specific debates and areas of practice on. We think, and hope, that there is honesty, insight, and constructive new thinking in here. More... NEWS ON TAP Want other ways of accessing Social Enterprise news? Follow us on Twitter @SEmagreporter or email us to download our news widget © Social Enterprise Magazine 2010 Social Enterprise LIVEWIRE is produced by London Fields Publishing on behalf of Social Enterprise. No part of this publication may be produced in any material form (including photocopying it or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 6-10 Kirby Street, London, England, EC1N 8TS. Applications for the copyright owner's written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher. The registered office of London Fields Publishing is 26 Gransden Avenue, London, E8 3QA. Company registered in England no. 4219483 Unsubscribe - Forward to a friend - Change your details