I’m back and refreshed after a week in the sun.  (I am a little tired, I woke up especially early to watch the cricket this morning only to find that England had already lost.) A lot has been going on at SSE recently; congratulations to everyone who graduated from our Fellowship course on Wednesday, another excellent group of social entrepreneurs becoming SSE Fellows. Applications for our Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland Social Entrepreneurs Programme have been streaming in, keep them coming.

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I am very excited, as I’m off on holiday to the Canary Islands tomorrow and can briefly escape this cold weather.  No Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You next week, but I’m sure that you’ll manage without it.

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A very wise man reminded me earlier this week that ‘a change is as good as a rest’. Never one to ignore advice, I decided that it was time to go full Gok Wan and give Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You a makeover.  The content will remain the same though; useful links buried amongst inane babble and appalling puns.

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Woah. Hold your horses.  We won’t have language like that around here, this ain’t no Rupert Murdoch publication. Thanks to the wonders of scrolling text there isn’t even a page 3.

It is flipping cold here in London though, and the hidden overlords who control the thermostat in our office have decided that absolute zero is an appropriate ambient temperature to work in.  I might print this week’s news out and burn it to keep warm (making it the most useful Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You ever?).

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