SSE attended the Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year award at the British Museum   Monday night to hear Reed Paget of Belu Water be crowned winner of that title for the first time in the UK. The Independent, the competition’s media partner, reports it in this article. It was a slightly curious event, with a relatively small audience (50 or so?) in a very rarefied setting; Pamela Hartigan, who is the driving force behind Schwab, couldn’t make it because she was ill, and I think she was missed as someone to provide a uniting thread for the event.

Nevertheless, if social entrepreneurship had glitterati, they were out in force: chief execs of UnLtd, Ashoka, CAN, Training for Life, Big Invest, Big Issue, Eden Project, The Hub, and so forth. Most interesting conversation for me was to find out about one of the nominees, Matt Scott from Cosmos Ignite Innovations. Check out the website; it’s a great innovation.