Hello! Keen-eyed linguists amongst you will have noticed that this week’s headline isn’t in English. It is in fact in German (I hope), because I’m currently headed to Germany for a weekend of Bundesliga football. I could argue that I was there to investigate the social enterprise-like fan ownership model that German football teams employ, but that would be lying. I’m there for the beer and bratwurst.
Here’s this week’s news:
Ben and Jerry’s and Ashoka have once again teamed up for their Join Our Core campaign. This year, they are focusing on crowdfunding. Project Manager Alex Watson tells us more…. Continue reading
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.
Here’s this week’s news: Continue reading
by Melanie Glass (@devinshb)
SSE Fellow Melanie Glass has just celebrated the first anniversary of her business Devenishgirl Bakery operating as a social enterprise and to mark the event is writing a series of articles covering her journey; from taking the leap of faith to start a social enterprise, to the impact their work makes, how to dream bigger and several other themes.
