Another day, another bad pun in the title. Recently our Director of Learning, Matthew Thomson, hotfooted it to become Chief Executive of the London Community Recycling Network, which "is a not for profit, second tier, organisation that supports and represents London’s existing and emerging Community Recyclers". We were chatting recently about how the next generation of enviro-entrepreneurs, ecopreneurs or green-preneurs might emerge, so I was interested to see the following website on my radar today:

Social Enterprise(s) and Waste, which is the website of the Social Enterprise and Waste Research Network, or SEWRN (one day, one of these acronyms will be SPECTRE or SMERSH). The Network aims to "support practitioners and researchers in learning
more about social enterprises and community organisations engaged in
dealing with waste and resources", as you might have surmised. It will aim to provide links to resources, evaluations, evidence, support agencies (including SSE, I’m delighted to note), and is part of the marvellously acronymed BRASS at Cardiff University. BRASS stands for Business Relationships, Sccountability, Sustainability and Society, and is part-funded by DEFRA and ESRC.

It’s undoubtedly going to be one of the growing areas for social entrepreneurs to operate in over the next few years, and it will be interesting to see different initiatives emerge and innovate.