Inbrief

Almost £200,000 ($385,000) has been set aside by the UK government for research into how to encourage private sector investment in social enterprise. Two organizations – the Charity Bank and Community Innovation UK – have been chosen to investigate ways to ‘deepen understanding of how to increase the range of finance available for social enterprises’. The work, funded by the government’s new Office of the Third Sector, will seek to establish the level of demand for private sector investment among social enterprises.