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As we celebrated the end of the Ambassadors programme last night in London I was feeling that there is major opportunity for social enterprise right now and one which we really shouldn't miss. As Martin Kinsella from P3 put it "now is the time".  And so I'm now raring to go again, and to make sure that whilst the official programme may have ended, now is the time to forge ahead and support lots of new ambassadors across all social enterprise and across the whole country. After al...

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It's been a weird and wonderful week with women at its heart.  On Tuesday I made a presentation to the Department of Business Innovation and Skills with Kresse Wesling the wonder woman who specializes in using waste materials to make lovely things.  Her current products include high-end Elvis & Kresse handbags, made from reclaimed fire brigade hoses and jute supermarket bags made from coffee sacks. On Wednesday I received the International Business Women award from SHE magazine ...

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Social Enterprises here in the UK should be exceptionally proud of how we have moved into pole position for developing the global movement. It wasn’t so long ago that people learning about best practice and development of social enterprises would almost always turn to the USA for their learning and to see great examples of social enterprise in action.   This is no longer the case, and developments like the Social Enterprise Mark have meant a further leap-frog into the future where the ...

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I can't think of a time when it isn't useful for a Social Enterprise to have a global perspective to help us reflect on our work.  Livity have recently been as far and wide as Mexico, South Africa, Greece and Finland to expand our understanding of how best to address the social issues affecting young people. The result of such a diverse pool of international experience is not only a real sense of local and global challenges, but also their solutions.   My business partner Gavin Weale...

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