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Laura Joffre

London, Manchester, United Kingdom

Journalist at Pioneers Post

Journalist @PioneersPost | Formerly Bloomberg and BBC World Service | 🇫🇷 in 🇬🇧, ex-professional ballet dancer 🩰

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  • The Impact World this Week: 1 August 2024

    Aug 1, 2024 | pioneerspost.com | Laura Joffre |Julie Pybus

    Your quick guide to the most interesting news snippets about social enterprise, impact investment and mission-driven business around the world from the Pioneers Post team. This week: FT recognises growing importance of impact investment movement, UK government names minister for social enterprise (among many other roles), Indian government notes development impact bond’s success, and more.

  • Good jobs: UK social enterprises offer better pay, opportunities and diversity than other employers

    Jul 31, 2024 | pioneerspost.com | Laura Joffre |Julie Pybus

    The country’s social enterprises are providing jobs that contribute to creating a stronger, fairer economy, argues the latest Social Enterprise UK research. Social enterprises are leading the way in creating good quality jobs in the UK, according to the sector’s representative organisation, Social Enterprise UK. A report published today, Good Work: Working conditions in social enterprise, highlights that social enterprises provide around 2.3m jobs nationally.

  • Trading for Good: Step forward the new wave of community entrepreneurs to take social change into their own hands

    Jul 16, 2024 | pioneerspost.com | Kate Balding |Alina Klarner |Laura Joffre

    In a vibrant redbrick building in north Liverpool, clothes are not the only things getting a freshen up. Kitty’s Launderette is an ecological laundry and dry-cleaning service that has been offering a new approach to what it means to be a good business since 2019. They’re a worker-community cooperative, a thriving commercial operation and a resoundingly social enterprise.

  • The Editor's Post: A tale of two elections

    Jul 12, 2024 | pioneerspost.com | Fanny Blanquier |Laura Joffre |Julie Pybus |Marcel Fukayama

    Last week, two major European countries went to the polls – and the results couldn’t be more different. The UK saw a landslide win for the Labour party – a much expected result, which gives Keir Starmer’s government a huge majority in parliament for the next five years. Outcome: pretty stable.

  • What the UK impact economy can expect from Labour’s new government

    Jul 11, 2024 | pioneerspost.com | Laura Joffre |Julie Pybus

    During the recent UK general election campaign, social economy leaders have stressed how, and why, any new government should partner with the impact sector to deliver on their pledges. Now that Labour is at the helm, what can we expect from them? The Labour government’s plan to “rebuild the country” after 14 years in opposition revolves around five key missions – driving economic growth, developing clean energy, reducing crime, improving the education system, and saving the health service.

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Laura Joffre
Laura Joffre @laura_joffre
5 Oct 23

RT @PioneersPost: Exclusive: Latest UK dormant assets allocation disappoints with just £87.5m for social investment Read more: https://t.c…

Laura Joffre
Laura Joffre @laura_joffre
27 Sep 23

RT @PioneersPost: NEW: Impact Investing Newsflow: September 2023 edition The global impact deals, reports and initiatives you need to know…

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Laura Joffre @laura_joffre
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RT @PioneersPost: NEW: Impact Investing Newsflow: July 2023 edition The global impact deals, reports and initiatives you need to know abou…