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The Social Enterprise Ambassadors Reception marked the completion of an ambitious three-year initiative to promote Social Enterprise. The nicest smiles in Social Enterprise? (It was kind of a big deal in my life and I've been worried about what's going to keep me out of trouble now it's all over) This being my final blog as an Ambassador™, I thought I’d be extra rambling and unstructured, so as not to break a consistent theme. And while on the theme of maintaining...

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              If you and your community were promised a park, and got excited about the effect some trees and shared space might have on your overcrowded low income area where clashes with police are common… And then it turned out some deals had been done and your ‘park’ is now going to be a multi-storey concrete car ‘park’… You’d be forgiven for being angry. You’d be right to want to do something. You’d be justified in ta...

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Your know your in trouble when you're reduced to an acronym... just ask any NEET BAMER N.E.E.T. = Young person Not in Education Employment or Training.           There are currently up to a million ‘NEETS’ in the UK aged under 25, and around 200,000 of those are between the ages of 16 and 18 (one in ten 16 – 18 year olds) Nearly half of them have an excuse and a note from their mum, they’re either travelling, volunteering, at her majesty’s le...

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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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