Trawling through the trade press the last hour or so (Social Enterprise Mag, Regeneration & Renewal, New Start, Third Sector et al), like panning for gold…

– SSE gets mentioned in a couple of times, with reference to Gordon Brown at the Fife School (launching a directory of social enterprises), and to current student Ola Onigbinde in an interesting piece about faith/social enterprise by Francis Davis (links to follow)

– piece by Craig Dearden-Phillips also appears, which I blogged about before…should stir up some debate!

– Ronald Cohen also makes an appearance in Social Enterprise Mag, to add to the interview in the Guardian today: aiming to do for social investment what he did for venture capital….

– interesting piece about Ecuadorean social enterprise in New Start by Rob Greenland

– + a piece about how creative enterprises are particularly suited to regenerating rural areas…worth tracking down

– R&R has an article about the ‘fragmentation’ of the social enterprise support scene in Birmingham and Solihull (download research here (pdf))

– Social Enterprise Coalition’s ‘Keeping it Legal’ (about the different structures available) gets noted a few times…£15 (£7.50 to members)… or, I think, downloadable above (tel. 020 7793 2323 for info)

– Investing for Good is setting up an online social investment market

– Cranfield is setting up a Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility thanks to a gift from an alumnus…

– A special feature on co-operatives, going back to Rochdale, 1844 (and, therefore, my History GCSE)