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Alison McGovern,
new Shadow Childcare Minister

Alison McGovern has been appointed as the new shadow childcare minister. She replaces Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell, appointed to the shadow early years brief in October 2013, has led Labour’s campaigns over…

Tailor Made: How do community groups improve society?

  Research from the Community Development Foundation shows that vital contributions from small community groups are making huge benefits nationally to society. Today sees the launch of a research project ‘Tailor Made: how…

Summer redesign…

As the summer holidays become a memory in 2013 we have brightened our Autumn reading by installing and loading a fresh new design and layout for ChangeThinking, the news and reflection website for…

BME support flowers in Cambridgeshire

We are delighted as a partnership to be the web publishers for the new information directory for ABMEC,  a Cambridgeshire based CIC, supporting the BME community in the county. ABMEC is a lottery…

Saying it cannot be done…

I was given a book mark yesterday by one of my colleagues. It carried the following inscription. Those who say it cannot be done… Should not interrupt the person doing it.   (Ancient…

Realism in social business development

The short video below tells the story of an organisation and team, in this case, in the technology sector, that burned through 40 million dollars of capital in five years and failed on…

Creating the right zone

We have been doing a lot of work recently on the creation of good governance structures for a variety of charitable and social enterprise organisations. Policies and process play a large part in…

Renegotiating Value; Bonus or Pro Bono

‘Bonus vs Pro Bono’ is the second in a series of Renegotiating ‘value’ seminars and seeks to explore the value of inspirational leadership in business. The seminar will be held in the St…

The Start UpToolkit

What is my route to market? Who will buy our product or service? The website thestartuptoolkit.com is a great place to begin pulling together ideas for your new social businesses. Created by Rob…

Entrepreneurship – social or otherwise

Europa have just released the latest 2009 state of entrepreneurship survey – which interestingly shows that 45% of Europeans would like to be their own boss, if they could. The EU survey suggests that entrepreneurs…