Advocacy Partners and Speaking Up merge to give a stronger voice to disabled people

Posted 15 February 2010

The merger has been announced today between two award winning social enterprises, Advocacy Partners and Speaking Up. Both charities are leading providers...

80% of social enterprise leaders questioned said there should be more mergers in the sector

Posted 11 November 2009

80% of social enterprise leaders questioned said there should be more mergers in the sector.   These statistics and others formed the...

‘Is There Appetite for Mergers in the Social Enterprise Sector?’

Posted 4 November 2009

The four years since the launch of Breakthrough have seen an unprecedented rise in demand and opportunity for social enterprise. As a...

Latest Breakthrough Results

Posted 3 November 2009

In the latest Breakthrough evaluation, all seven of the social enterprises on the programme have grown both their financial turnover and their...

Why aren't there more mergers in social enterprise?

Posted 9 October 2009

*Breakthrough, the investment fund helping social enterprises scale up, has launched a nationwide survey to gauge appetite for mergers and acquisitions (M&As)...

5 steps to raising investment for social enterprise

Posted 15 September 2009

*We all know raising finance can be hard. Social enterprises find it harder than most as they don't have any collateral to...

Teach First named Education and Training Charity of the Year

Posted 12 June 2009

Educational charity Teach First, which recruits high calibre graduates to teach in challenging schools for a minimum two years, and supports them...

Breakthrough announces seventh investment

Posted 20 January 2009

*Teach First, the national educational charity which recruits hundreds of top graduates each year to teach in challenged secondary schools, is the...

Breakthrough announces sixth investment

Posted 29 July 2008

*The award-winning social enterprise Speaking Up is the sixth investment for the pioneering Breakthrough social investment fund managed by CAN.* Founded in 1996,...

SVG Capital joins Permira in Breakthrough social investment fund

Posted 10 July 2008

*The private equity investor and fund management business SVG Capital plc ('SVG') has joined Permira LLP to become the second investor in...

Former Merrill Lynch equity analyst to head up social investment fund

Posted 30 November 2007

*Former Merrill Lynch equity analyst Denise Holle has joined leading UK social enterprise CAN to head up Breakthrough, its pioneering social investment...