A £20,000 grant from UnLtd helped grow a school project into a multi-million-pound social enterprise in less than decade.

It’s not often you get asked what sweet would best describe you at a press conference but then this is no ordinary Q & A. To mark Social Enterprise Day, we’ve handed over the mic to Media Cubs Everleigh and Lila and together they’ve put four of our newest programme award winners through their paces.

A near fatal accident in 2007 was the start of Liam Rushmer’s journey to becoming an award-winning social entrepreneur.

The past week has seen an unprecedented level of violence and attacks, against minoritised communities, especially Muslims and asylum seekers, in the UK. UnLtd strongly condemns this racist and Islamophobic hatred and violence at the hands of the far-right.

Growth Impact Fund, developed by Big Issue Invest and UnLtd, announces investments in a number of innovative social purpose organisations.

Mental Health Awareness Week 2024: Meet four social entrepreneurs from our Movement for Change programme with Sport England

The Growth Impact Fund invests £55,000 in Living in Fitness to enhance well-being for older adults

When Jayne Sibley of Sibstar goes into the Dragons’ Den, it will be for the second time!

The Entrepreneur Ship 2023 : as our Atlantic rower Sam Glover crosses the finish line, he and Boromi’s founder, Evie Keough, talk teamwork

The Growth Impact Fund announces funding into organisations that boost inclusion in schools and universities

The Entrepreneur Ship 2023: Sam Glover’s solo Atlantic Row to raise funds and Evie Keough’s inspirational journey to founding Boromi

Celebrating our Movement for Change social entrepreneurs for Global Entrepreneurship Week 13th – 19th November

We’ve been providing enterprise grants – and the early results are compelling

The Growth Impact Fund announces its second close at £1.75m

We’ve invested £1 million to tackle social inequality in the UK

Learning from Ecwiti: Equitable support for innovation

Funders must err on the side of inclusion to reach diverse communities

Growth Impact Fund invests £150,000 in Doing What Really Matters

UnLtd Organisational Restructure: March 2023

UnLtd and Sport England announce Movement for Change. Our exciting new £3.5m partnership.

Reflecting rising living costs in our awards for social entrepreneurs

What does equitable support look like in practice?

Autumn Statement: what it says and how social entrepreneurs can respond

The future of social investment

A once-in-a-decade opportunity for social entrepreneurs

Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan

Breaking Down Barriers: We’ve changed how we’re funding for impact

Meeting the demand for inclusive and equitable finance

Our commitment to LGBTQ+ inclusion and support

Social entrepreneurs respond to the 2022 Queen’s Speech, and call on the Government to make clearer and fairer commitments

UnLtd, Big Issue Invest and learning partner Shift announce the Growth Impact Fund

Spring statement suggests summer of discontent for social ventures

If we’re to take the Inclusive Britain agenda seriously, action towards equity is needed

If we want the UK to be better prepared for crisis, the pandemic proved that social entrepreneurs are the ones to back

Name it. Claim it. Why Black female entrepreneurs should step into their CEO title

Policies not praise are what social entrepreneurs need to thrive in recovery

The Camden community journalists making a better borough for all

Social investment needs to re-establish its true north

Why Mishcon de Reya are supporting The Entrepreneur Ship

Oomph! Wellness finding bold innovative solutions for an ageing society

The Entrepreneur Ship: the next generation asks the questions

UnLtd & Social Firms Wales launch Ecwiti, new support for social entrepreneurs in Wales

Why Smith & Williamson are on board The Entrepreneur Ship

From language to laser cutters – a unique style of learning with Bizzie Bodies

How an internet connection brings joy to retirement

UnLtd, Big Issue Invest and Social Value UK to launch free diversity, equity and inclusion toolkit for social entrepreneurs

The social entrepreneur supporting gay, bisexual and queer men to live their best lives

How to write a strong SESF funding application

Social entrepreneurs are leading the way: #COP26 policymakers should back them

Budget 2021: What does it mean for social enterprise?

Boom in Black, Asian and minority ethnic social entrepreneurs looking to start up

Black History Month: getting youth well-versed with mental health

Black History Month: On and Off the Pitch

Quad biking and story writing: How Ability Today built a journalism school and more

Remaking UnLtd to be fitter for purpose: an action plan

Leaders with learning disabilities are out there

Brighton’s waves of change

The National Disability Strategy: some wins for disabled social entrepreneurs, but more action required

Anti-racism Resources for the Social Enterprise Sector

What should we expect in the Government’s overdue National Disability Strategy?

What’s in a number?

How social entrepreneurs and public bodies can collaborate for success

Reform Radio

Tackling society’s most pressing issues in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Social entrepreneurs challenging gender inequality in the workforce

How the UK’s most accessible job board is transforming recruitment

Institutional racism remains a problem and the social enterprise sector must address it

Entrepreneurs get on board with social entrepreneurship as they kick off Atlantic rowing challenge

New study reveals how cost-effective social ventures can be

International Women’s Day

What does the Budget 2021 mean for social entrepreneurs?

A secondment from our Connect partners Hogan Lovells

BBC reports on gaps in government support for social entrepreneurs

Surfing, zip wires and disco dancing, how Weekday Wow Factor tackles loneliness

Sending love from a social distance

Five personal brand tips for your social business

We’re recruiting for a new trustee

How social entrepreneurs are supporting communities through COVID-19

Calling for reform to government emergency loan schemes

Meet the 2021 ‘Thrive: Solutions for an Ageing Society’ Cohort

How has a pandemic changed the way we feed a city?

The Investment Team’s 2020

Kafoodle: creating healthy ageing through its meal matching service

Standing with our social entrepreneurs against racism

Inclusive Recovery Fund awards £4.75 million to 120 social entrepreneurs

Black-owned social enterprises you can buy from this #BlackPoundDay 

UnLtd staff and social entrepreneurs named inspirational women in social enterprise

Making inclusion a reality: lessons in equity from the Social Enterprise Support Fund

The social venture running care home exercise classes with a difference

Celebrating the UK’s Black social entrepreneurs this Black History Month

MyCognition: a cognition-based approach to mental health and wellness

The young social entrepreneurs creating Spaces 4 Change

Circle Collective’s Social Impact Journey

Impact and legacy of Transform Ageing

UnLtd & Comic Relief partner on £5 million matched fund to support social entrepreneurs into recovery

Attention Chancellor: Investment in social ventures can help the UK through this crisis

Take a bow, but take a stand too

Social Enterprise Support Fund opens for final round

How our research on healthy ageing ventures applies to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Social Enterprise Support Fund reopens for applications after delivering £5.6 million of urgent grant funding to social enterprises

How to write a strong COVID-19 funding application

New Vision and Action Plan for Social Enterprise in Wales

Social Enterprise Support Fund: UnLtd’s Inclusion Commitment

Supporting you through your application – Social Enterprise Support Fund

New fund launches to deliver £18.7 million in grant funding to social enterprises

We white male CEOs and Chairs need to step up and deliver on releasing power to BAME leaders

National Employability Day: How three social ventures have adapted to Covid-19

#BlackLivesMatter: How UnLtd needs to show up to tackle racism and create equity in social enterprise

Getting your ducks in a row to apply for emergency funding

Introducing our new Thrive Access to Employment 2020 cohort

UnLtd and players of People’s Postcode Lottery commit further funding and support to local communities

The 4Ps - A framework for thinking about social entrepreneur responses to Covid-19

Prioritising your mental health during lockdown

Social enterprise leaders welcome government steps towards saving one million jobs

Launching the Changing Places documentary

UnLtd social enterprises named leaders and trailblazers in the SE100 index

Social Entrepreneurs Making PPE for the NHS

Managing through a Crisis – 3 things I’ve learned in my first 6 months at UnLtd

A four point-plan to #SaveOurSocEnts

How to access the Government’s Covid-19 financial support

Supporting social entrepreneurs through coronavirus

We’re Recruiting - Protector of the Millennium Awards Trust

COVID-19: Advice and support for social entrepreneurs

UnLtd’s Remote Working Advice

UK Budget summary: lots on surviving, little on thriving

How an IT fault led to an art exhibition, and a growing social venture

Government Ministers visit UnLtd social entrepreneurs in action

Meet the 2020 ‘Thrive: Solutions for an Ageing Society’ Cohort

UnLtd entrepreneurs recognised in parliament  

UnLtd & Radiant Cleaners recognised for their work on Decent Work

Social impact isn’t linear: the honest challenges of being a systems-changer

The 10 pieces of the growth puzzle (and how Thrive can help you put them together)

Scaling-up cleaning-up

Brighton beyond the postcards

Transforming disability employment: social entrepreneurs taking on the creative industries and more

Channel 4 Airtime for UnLtd Award Winners

Help UnLtd to #UntapSolutions with the next Parliament

Untapped Products: Shopping with purpose

UnLtd backs 122 new social entrepreneurs across the UK

When Landlines Become Lifelines

UnLtd and Empact Partner for The Super Connect Series

Spiral Skills coming full circle on the Thrive accelerator

Help Purposely achieve its potential

Developing solutions to complex problems: our experiences on Transform Ageing

Find Your Voice are Hitting the High Notes

What do Labour and the Conservatives have to tell social entrepreneurs?

The Journey To Age Equality: International Day of the Older Person

To Thrive or not to Thrive: How one theatre company is training thousands

Death Cafes and Coffin Clubs: challenging the taboos around death

The Future of EU funding

Building resilient communities in Staffordshire

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Homelessness

Five visions for change, one year of support. What happened? 

How to harness social entrepreneurs to bridge the disability employment gap

UnLtd’s response to the Social Investment Tax Relief Consultation

Solving a problem like Hygiene Poverty

The Hackney mum empowering women to re-join the workforce

The woman sending out hugs in a box

‘We keep going’: Adventures in the South Wales Valleys

Tackling the mental health divide: Meet the entrepreneurs making therapy accessible

Where is the urgency to fix our broken social care system?

UnLtd’s response to the Government’s Social Value Consultation

Bespoke mentoring helped breastfeeding-shirt business to thrive

Leaders with lived experience: A call for change

Enterprise with Meaning: The Story in Brighton

Bringing communities together to tackle loneliness

Launching social entrepreneur podcast How Do You Solve A Problem Like..?

The Accomable story: scaling up for greater social impact

The 2019 Spring Statement: key developments for Social Entrepreneurs

Meet the woman whose floristry venture is helping women rebuild their lives

UnLtd’s accelerator can help grow your business

How will we know if our work makes a difference?

Purposely shortlisted for Digital Agenda Impact Award

5 tips for becoming a social entrepreneur this year

Meet the singer recording lives with The Swan Song Project

Meet the Barking designer helping local women enter the fashion industry

Barking’s hub of youthful enterprises

For entrepreneurship to succeed we first need to address the inequalities in our society

Unlocking More Philanthropic Capital for Social Investment

Delivering solutions and impact: Over 90 champions of social change receive support from UnLtd

Spotlight on the Hubb Community Kitchen entrepreneurs

Award winning hot chocolate tackling human trafficking

Boosting support for enterprising people in South Wales Valleys, Dundee, Stoke and Brighton

UnLtd staff and social entrepreneurs named leading women in social entrepreneurship

The 2018 Budget: 11 key Announcements from 11 Downing St for Social Entrepreneurs.

If you build it, they will come: Lessons from the Par Bay learning journey

Become a Mentor in Dundee

Loneliness affects us all. Enterprising people have solutions we can all connect with.

Easy ways to support ethical entrepreneurs this Social Saturday

Party conferences are over; what did we learn for social entrepreneurs

UnLtd invest in pioneering social venture, ToolShed

Reimagining ageing: how social enterprise can help us grow old well

Unlocking systems change and innovation in housing

Arts participation, creativity can Make It Better

Building local resilience in Devon – discover the impact of NEDcare

Amma Mensah appointed as new UnLtd Trustee

Civil Society Strategy: 7 things social entrepreneurs need to know

Laudable ambition – but does the Government’s civil society strategy go far enough?

PALS Society, Through employment comes inclusion

Making the community care - meet Moments Café

Wellbeing in the woods: transforming lives in the great outdoors

UnLtd’s CEO shortlisted for Rising Chief Executive award

A stitch in time – inside The Sewing Rooms

Raising a glass to social change

Tackling unemployment with youth-led social innovation

Getting to work: 18 social innovations get accelerator support to Thrive

Uncompromising commitment: UnLtd names four Pioneers - leaders catalysing social change

Prime Minister acclaims Transform Ageing social entrepreneurs

Nicholas Farhi appointed new Chair of UnLtd

Untapped potential: UnLtd and Scope join forces to tackle the disability employment gap

New UnLtd Impact Fund backs Sofab Sports as first investment

Braver, more inclusive and more accountable – the future of our civil society

UnLtd social entrepreneur named most inspiring role model for women in business

How can social organisations thrive without affordable space? Meet the organisation squaring the Circle

Hitting the right note in York

Meet the innovators who will Transform Ageing in the south-west

Social entrepreneur Hey Girls crowned Virgin StartUp’s Scottish Business of the Year 2018

#TogetherUnLtd: UnLtd backs enterprising people to work together to make a lasting difference in UK communities

Smartphone fixers have Cracked It

Helping Social Ventures To Thrive: Five Things You Need To Know

Businesses must get serious about purpose beyond profit, or risk losing market share

East End Connect seeks people to transform Hackney, Barking & Dagenham

Our new partnership with Local Trust in Big Local areas

Putting the social in social entrepreneurship

Do It For Real – unleashing the potential in young people

#TogetherUnLtd: UnLtd backs 72 new social entrepreneurs

Unequalled support. UnLtd Impact Fund

Spaces4Change – Explore: Inspired by transformation and social change

Exploring Failure - a response

Social entrepreneurs are the future of business – exploring the numbers

UnLtd appoints seven new Trustees - renewing leadership to enable greater impact

The next Government should take note: Social entrepreneurs are building resilient communities

The next Government should take note: social entrepreneurs could transform the job market

The next Government should take note: social entrepreneurs are providing solutions to an ageing society

We must show the next government that social entrepreneurs have solutions

Find social entrepreneurs near you in the West Midlands with new interactive map

Get your candidates talking about the social economy

Transform Ageing local launch events: inspiring innovation across the South West

Leaders in social impact from around the world assemble in South Africa

Developing and delivering an Apprenticeship for Entrepreneurs - get involved

Help design a new tool to help you put the purpose into your business

Dormant financial assets should be used for scaling social impact

International social entrepreneur supporter conference kicks off in South Africa

Education Exchange - bringing together innovators, social entrepreneurs and teachers

YouTube meets social entrepreneurship: using videos to encourage sustainable eating

Safe space in Bournemouth offers employment support

Skills, thrills and personal development: how a mentor helped Well Grounded flourish

Hackney Connected: the young social entrepreneurs transforming their borough

Social ventures must compete with corporate recruitment drives

New industrial strategy must drive a shift to a more entrepreneurial, productive and socially just society

Meet the social entrepreneur asking: can a holiday change a life?

How to share your story - marketing tips for social entrepreneurs

Skills, thrills and personal development: five ways to get the most out of your mentor

Employers get ready for 2017 launch of new apprenticeship

One woman’s vision giving her home town a new voice

Five social leaders that will inspire you to start your venture

Cooking up a feast with social entrepreneurs

Still need to do your Christmas shopping? Good news – ThisBecause now open until Christmas Eve!

How one social entrepreneur transformed her job loss into an opportunity for her community

People-powered, affordable homes in Yorkshire to help solve housing crisis

SPACES4CHANGE: Up to £5,000 available to transform a local space

Mission-led business review and what it means for social entrepreneurs

Measuring the social impact of your venture could be the most important thing you do

New programme and new approach to Transform Ageing in the UK

Art and recovery

Four social entrepreneurs growing their venture and their impact

New legal guide and decision tool for social entrepreneurs

Five national partners selected to help England age better

Five starting points for social entrepreneurs

Skills, thrills and personal development: how mentoring is helping social entrepreneurs thrive

Community solutions are improving our health and wellbeing

Keep your eyes on the prize: achieving impact versus measuring impact

Growing social entrepreneurship in Africa with GSEN

Social entrepreneurs are crowdfunding to tackle the housing crisis

What makes a great city for social entrepreneurs?

8 easy ways to buy social this Saturday

Social entrepreneur giving people living with dementia the respect they deserve

Six tips for social entrepreneurs trying to succeed in schools

Discover the best place to be a social entrepreneur

Social entrepreneurs struggle with work-life balance in the digital age

The innovative business changing education for the better

Local street garden grows a community space

6 ways social ventures can compete on the high street

The food revolution being built in Brighton

How RunAClub secured social investment

Help England Age Better

Social entrepreneurs celebrated for tackling issues close to home

Young social entrepreneurs making a difference in Tower Hamlets

Are you an impact seller or an impact employer?

New consultancy support for social entrepreneurship in further and higher education

Meet the sport loving social entrepreneurs tackling dementia

Beyond CSR: How social entrepreneurship is helping global organisations to create local impact

Bricks and Bread gives Twyardreath locals the confidence to succeed in business

Supporting social entrepreneurs to scale effectively: what Impact Hubs have learnt from their Scaling Programme

Four young social entrepreneurs starting up in Tower Hamlets

Young people and local residents team up to make Whitley Bay even better

Exploring Barriers and Best Practice for Social Entrepreneurs Tackling Employability

How young people are inspiring each other to create social change

Working with the audience: co-creating support to help Big Local residents make their area even better

Going mainstream – what does it mean, anyway?

Beyond CSR: Could your business benefit from taking on an apprentice entrepreneur?

UnLtd and Our Bright Future to support young social entrepreneurs in transforming unused spaces

Government approves standard for the apprenticeship for entrepreneurs

Social entrepreneur putting community back into shopping

Help people do good: Become a Social Entrepreneur Supporter

Five big themes coming out of Big Social 2016

Paying it Forward: How volunteering makes a difference

Report reveals UnLtd’s Impact in 2015

Mark Norbury to join UnLtd as new Chief Executive

Lewisham microbrewery serves up cool jobs for people with learning disabilities

Beyond CSR: How to inspire your staff through working with social entrepreneurs

Meet the social entrepreneurs who are Leading the Change

How could social entrepreneurship make your Big Local Area even better?

Applications for Big Venture Challenge 2016 are now open