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A Social Business Christmas

Embed from Getty Images Image: Christmas learning from Barcelona Preparing for Christmas we realised that although we have a number of active and complex projects moving ahead into 2017, including more international book…

Awards for Social Enterprise

If you are a social enterprise active for two years or more, and can meet the published criteria, you can now apply to the Social Enterprise Awards 2016. The application process is now…

Venturefest 2015, April 14th

Our Partnership will be exhibiting in the Social Business Hub of Venturefest East Midlands, in Nottingham, on Tuesday 14th April 2015. Supporting the Social Business Hub visitors in their exploration of the newly…

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…

Social Incubator North now active…

There is a new feeling of enterprise and social business generation abroad in the North of England. Social Incubator North is now taking applications for the new fund, offering support, encouragement and practical…

Public service co-operators

Moving from the wrap around direct support of the pubic sector and taking services into another social business form can be an amazing journey. It can also be a rocky road fraught with…

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…

Startup Britain – a useful web resource?

The ‘Startup Britain’ web site has the support of the Prime Minister – but is it, as some commentators have cynically described a government backed web link-farm – offering already available resources to…

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…

SMP elementals – an approach

Starting a new project? Starting a social business? Trying to get the enterprise element bootstrapped in your social enterprise? When you are starting energy and enthusiasm are great to get you going. Your…

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