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The furore over the Facebook page set up for Raul Moat and the media frenzy it generated reminded me of many similar problems we faced at Cybermoor a few years ago, before Facebook had even been invented.  Our open discussion forums generated lots of comment from the community on issues affecting their everyday lives and in a tight knit community, some of these topics strayed into areas which were rather unsavoury. Our challenge was to balance the right of people to offer their views with ...

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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 was sat on a park bench at a playpark today watching my toddler happily running around with some other kids when one of the young mums in the group said she was thinking of starting up a social enterprise.  I was astonished – I had not told anyone there that I was involved in running a social enterprise or that I was promoting them through my role as an ambassador so this was someone who had got the message…..  Her idea was to turn her waterlogged garden into a bogland nature res...

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Last Monday I treated myself to a Moody Baker Steak and Wolf Ale pie.  The Moody Baker is a worker co-op bakery in Alston, located just up the road from the Cybermoor offices.  Both organisations started out in 2003, with Cybermoor supplying broadband and the Moody Bakers supplying wholemeal loaves to the residents of Alston Moor.  The community has 8 social enterprises already – from a community owned railway to a craft workers co-op, and this culture of working together for ...

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