by Emmanuella Emovon

As the year 2012 has now drawn to a close,  it’s a great privilege to be able to reflect on the highs and lows, with a view to making things better in 2013. For Sarah, she started the year with a passion and burning desire to make a difference in her community. That was her Goal at the start of 2012. But it wasn’t until Sarah started what she described as the ‘SSE Boot camp’ that she realised, it would take more than passion and burning desire to turn her dream into reality.  Nevertheless Sarah embraced Boot Camp with Optimism… Continue reading →

by Gina Lopez

This summer Gina Lopez, a student at the Clinton School of Public Service, spent time working for Eden Tree, a social enterprise in Accra, Ghana, before spending six weeks volunteering at the School for Social Entrepreneurs in London.  Here she looks back at her time in Ghana and examines the growing opportunities for social entrepreneurs.   Continue reading →

by Colin Crooks

Let me tell you about a man I know….I’ll call him Ralph.  When he hit 40, he realised that he’d wasted his life between drink and prison.  He couldn’t remember the last real job he’d had.  Worst of all he was barely on speaking terms with his teenage son.  But now he wanted to change things.  Continue reading →

In a recent social enterprise debate at the House of Lords, Baroness Scott of Needham Market talked about the support the sector needs. The “dedication and enthusiasm will carry [social entrepreneurs] a very long way, but professional support in finance and business planning, legal frameworks and so on is key, and this is where the school comes in. The Ipswich school [SSE Suffolk] is great, but we need more of this sort of thing right across the country. We also need social enterprises which themselves help other social enterprises”. Continue reading →