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As part of our new series providing advice and insights on social enterprise, Kresse Wesling talks about what got her started, how to avoid failure and her top tips for starting-up... Several triggers prompted my involvement into social enterprise. There are the smaller gradual shifts which had been building up for years: developing a significant concern for environmental protection due to the contrast between life/industry in Canada and life in Hong Kong and China; going to ‘the dump with my...

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 Delivering the last session of a course of 'Community Champions' in the Midlands made me realise how sometimes we miss the most obvious things in empowering and working with communities. This course was delivered to mainly tenants of Registered Social Landlords and was aimed to improve the community relations across different housing estates.  It was one of the first times I was asked to deliver this type of course to the mainstream British population (if there ever was such...

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Today was non-stop action, the kind of day I love. I started with an Eako (now trading as Elvis & Kresse) breakfast meeting, dealing with the millions of decisions we have to make to get products done and packed and ready for the festive season. Then it was two hours with what is shaping up to be a killer climate change team - oh yes - this is something we can fight people! I had a quick bag drop (product show and tell) at Westminster tube and then Number 10. I like Gordon Brown, I really do...

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 Its Social Enterprise Eve at P3 !!! Its No 10 tomorrow for the SE reception hosted by the PM himself I'm polishing the elevator pitch as I write: MK ' why don't we commission more Social Enterprise services that pull systems , organisations, professions, agencies, departments together for example, across the midlands and in London my organiastion  P3 provides a range of preventative services for socially excluded people across the spectrum of need - f...

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