E026 - Putting the Social into Enterprise with Thomas Gillan from Social Investment Scotland

As the distinction between businesses and social enterprises is becomes increasingly blurred all sorts of opportunities are emerging for businesses to tackle social problems.

In this episode, I interview Thomas Gillan who is the Chief Officer for Finance and Strategy at Social Investment Scotland. During our conversation, we discuss various aspects of putting the 'social' into business including:

• The role of businesses versus social enterprises in solving social problems
• How measuring the success of a business is evolving to include measuring social impact
• The potential for businesses to define and formalise their social impact pledge
• The scope of social investment funds and providing finance to social enterprises
• Examples of businesses that put social impact at the core of their business.

You can check out the full show notes at http://alisoun.com/e026