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 just won the British Council's UK Young Creative Entrepreneur Award, and his trip to Cape Town and Johhanesburg has not only greatly inspired and invigorated the work we're doing in the UK, but the fantastic reception he received from SA Social Enterprise mean we're now looking at expansion plans to launch a township equivalent of one of our Flagship projects, LIVE Magazine.
The UK is often considered as being a world leader in Social Enterprise, and we can only continue to lead the world if we listen and learn to what is being achieved all around us.
For more advice on expaning social enterprise internationally visit our working internationally page in our Advice section.
