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Sometimes good fortune just falls in your lap and today it did in the form of Divine Chocolate. I was just about to start planning my first visit ‘ambassador’ to Lawnswood School, where I’ll be talking with business students about social enterprise,  when the Sunday Times dropped through the letter box.  One of my favourite features is ‘A Life in the Day’ and I duly turned to the back of the magazine to read about Comfort Kumeah a Fairtrade cocoa farmer from Ghana. She work...

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When my business Angels Houskeeping was in the pre-start up stages I’d never heard of social enterprise but I’d had enough after years in a purely commercial environment and the voluntary sector (where I had escaped to) hugely frustrated me with its inefficiencies and endless funded projects that had limited impact. Here was an opportunity to combine business principles with services beneficial to the community and the absolute key to it for me was sustainability. Social business, like any...

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