It’s been some week. Zayn left One Direction (I’d never heard of him before he did), a man was sacked for punching a colleague, a prospective prime minister went all Stone Cold Steve Austin and a 15th Century king was reburied in Leicester. Wowsers. You don’t get many weeks like that in a lifetime. It doesn’t stop there though, as we’ve unearthed ten more sensational stories making headlines around the world. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be quite a ride…
Alrighty! Today is International Happiness Day so I’m making an attempt to be extra chipper today. What is International Happiness Day? Now in its third year, it’s a United Nations-backed campaign calling for happiness and well-being to be given greater priority when measuring global progress. This year’s theme is around connecting with people, so I’d like to wish you a super Friday (which is always the happiest day anyway…)
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It’s Friday, so it’s time for this week’s Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You. It’s also my birthday, so if you fancy tweeting @schsocent and suggesting that I should be allowed to go home / to the pub early it would be appreciated – if you click this link it will do it for you. You only have to make one click! (The phone number is 020 7089 9210 if you think that you can make a good case for it over the phone).
I’m actually not much of a fan of birthday cake
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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.
Here’s this week’s news:
