By Aimee Dorsett-Brown, Equally Ours

The Enterprise Development Programme offers tailored support to civil society organisations looking to explore new models of trading or grow existing ones as a way to build up financial resilience, grow unrestricted funding and foster innovation across the charitable sector.

We're delighted to share our new Equality Impact Investing Toolkit, our introductory guide for social and impact investors on EII fundamentals and how to put them into practice.

By Dr Jess Daggers

EIIP is seeking to bridge two fields of practice: the field of impact investing, and the field of equality and human rights. Both of these fields have developed their own measurement practices and frameworks

By Kevin Osborne, KO Management

I was optimistic about the possibility for change to the stark and urgent problem of only 2.4% of regular arts funding going to BAME* organisations when the BAME population is 14%. But as I plan to launch Create Equity’s campaign for arts funders to pledge to distribute their funding equitably within the next ten years, that optimism has waned.

How can investment terms, legal documentation and processes within impact investing better embed the principles and values of equality? To what extent do investment terms replicate forms of control and power that are poorly aligned with trust and collaborative partnership?

We’re pleased to share here a vibrant discussion at the book launch of Ben Wrobel and Meg Massey’s Letting Go: How Philanthropists and Impact Investors Can Do More Good By Giving Up Control hosted by Equality Impact Investing Project, Centre for Knowledge Equity and Big Society Capital (15 July).

By EIIP Senior Associate Rana Zincir Celal

With the training materials from our very first EIIP training programme now available on our website, impact investors now have access to our full course content, covering both the theory and practice of equality impact investing.

A key recommendation of EIIP’s foundational research is that impact management and measurement (IMM) frameworks used within the impact investment sector need to be better aligned with equality and human rights considerations.

Government has set out bold ambitions to close the gaps between which areas, and which groups, get a real chance to flourish in, and contribute to, our economy, society and culture. But what would a levelled up UK actually look like, and how can equality impact investing play an effective role?

As EIIP launches a new web platform to support greater investor action on inequality, our EIIP Director, Ceri Goddard asks if not now then when?

The fifth podcast in the fantastic Ariadne Podcast Gender Lens Investment Series featuring our Director Ceri Goddard and others pushing the boundaries to look at the future of gender lens and wider equality impact investing.

Eighty five social impact investors are well underway upskilling, and adding to, key equality impact investing strategies in EIIP’s very first training and action learning programme.

We are pleased to share Big Society Capital (BSC) blog by 2027 Programme Graduate, Manprit Vig, who looks back and reflects on his placement at BSC and the springboard that provided both him and the organisation the opportunity to advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

This online session will explore how BII approaches Impact management; how we look at Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion within our processes; and will be a deep dive into one of our research projects. Each break-out session will be led by members of the impact and investment teams within BII.