Big Issue Invest CSV: Social Investment Statistics for Early-Stage Businesses in England

Big Issue Invest's Corporate Social Venturing programme data covers investments in social programmes. The dataset likely contains statistics on the number and types of participating organisations, their legal structures, the beneficiaries they support, and the type and quantity of finance received. It is published by Big Issue Cooperate under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the distribution of investment types and quantities received by social businesses based on the finance data mentioned in the description.
• Studying the relationship between an organisation's legal structure and the beneficiaries it supports based on the described variables.
• Evaluating the composition and focus areas of a corporate social venturing programme based on the number and types of participating organisations.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a specific, named programme (Corporate Social Venturing) run by Big Issue Invest and multiple partner organisations.
• The description specifies several concrete data themes, including organisation types, legal structures, beneficiary details, and finance metrics.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Big Issue Cooperate

Collection Method

Likely administrative data from the Corporate Social Venturing (CSV) programme run by Big Issue Invest and its partners.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:55.247656; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England