Business and entrepreneurship

Finalists from the RSA Spark Entrepreneur Awards have secured significant additional funding from the Chacegrove Family Foundation to help them take their high-impact ideas further into real-world solutions.

For Greg Jackson, Founder and CEO of Octopus, the energy transition feels so close he can almost touch it. The iconoclast entrepreneur invited the RSA into Octopus HQ in central London for an interview with writer and broadcaster Lucy Siegle. Their conversation spanned the power of electrification, UK energy chaos, why populists have a point on bills, and how to deal with oil executives planning for Armageddon.

Social entrepreneur and content creator Adarsh Ramchurn in the spotlight

Community banking is a microfinance model built on trust. In it, the community wins or loses together. It is gaining in popularity on the African continent as community banking goes digital.

New RSA Chair Loyd Grossman talks music, art and societal change, and why he thinks the work and mission of the RSA is more important now than ever.

RSA House first opened its doors in 1774. Since then the site has seen carousing, consciousness-raising and confidence deserting some of history’s most renowned orators. Today it remains a source of inspiration and refreshment.

From its ‘Industrial Designs’ competition in 1924 to the Student Design Awards of 2024, the RSA has long celebrated innovative solutions to social and environmental challenges. Now enter RSA Spark.

A designer’s unorthodox approach is transforming the way education is delivered in prisons across the UK and in the US.

RSA Fellows include globally renowned and historically significant individuals across all industries. Here, we cast a spotlight on just 50 of them, ranging from lions of the Enlightenment to contemporary campaigners for justice.

Andy Thornton discusses how we can see the forest for the trees when it comes to nurturing regenerative business.