A lot of strange things have come out of America over the years. Pop tarts, George W Bush, the word ‘zucchini’, half of me; the list goes on… But today in America is National Nothing Day, a day which is celebrated by doing nothing. This sounds like a very interesting concept, and one we should try out here. Let’s all spend the rest of the day doing absolutely nothing. It’s Friday, you’ve earned the rest!
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After something of an extended hiatus, The School for Social Entrepreneurs and Social Spider once again teamed up for another edition of Social Enterprise Question Time.
This time, we debated the merits of social investment.
Making up our panel were:
Here are some of the best tweets:
For the last few years SSE London has run a social franchising course, in partnership with the International Centre for Social Franchising (ICSF). This year, the course begins in February and we have broadened the scope to cover all forms of replication:
Credit: Nick Temple
We caught up with a participant from last year, Kieron Tilley of We Walk The Line, to talk about his experience on the course. We Walk The Line is a social enterprise which aims to train disadvantaged individuals to become baristas, and teaches them the skills that they require to establish their own business. Continue reading
Welcome to the first Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You of 2015. I had two resolutions this year: not to leave writing this until Friday morning (broken already) and to check thoroughly for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Oh well…
Here’s this week’s news…
Happy New Year! Hopefully you are well rested, refreshed and ready to take on 2015.
There is a lot going on at SSE over the next few months, so below is a brief synopsis of everything currently scheduled to take place over the first few months of this year.
