Building Britain's Future is politics, not policy, and could be the final nail in the coffin for recession hit social businesses, says Craig Dearden-Phillips
From Dragons' Den to award winning design company working exclusively for the humanitarian market - meet red Button Design.
There are some good opportunities to be had for social enterprises among Brown's final attempts at proving Labour's worth, says Cliff Prior, CEO of UnLtd.
The social enterprise arm of Employers for Childcare is the first in the UK to administer childcare vouchers, helping parents get the help they need and get back to work
Who would have thought that a renewable energy practitioner who formerly yelled frequently at farmers would now be working with them thanks to the power of social enterprise
Lancaster University Volunteering Unit's Voltage project provides young people aged nine to 20 with an insight into the importance of social enterprise and a hands-on chance to run a business. Our programme with primary school children is the first of its kind in the UK.
Absolutely fabulous - a New Avenger for
social entrepreneurs, says Liam Black
At Mow & Grow, we've benefited from four fantastic years of support, advice and pro bono consultancy, says CEO Trevor Lynn
Penny Newman, CEO of Fifteen, puts herself in the shoes of Sir Alan.
In response to the Social Enterprise story 'Sector split on community reinvestment laws', Bernie Morgan, CEO of CDFA, and Social Enterprise Coalition CEO Jonathan Bland have written a joint letter denying any differences between their organisations.
In a letter to Social Enterprise, CDFA CEO Bernie Morgan said that while the Community Reinvestment Act has helped a ‘thriving CDFI sector in America', the situation in the UK is ‘very different'.
Social enterprises play an important role in the UK's economy, contributing some £27bn a year. But their contribution in the upturn is perhaps even more important, says business minister Ian Pearson on the day of the government's social enterprise summit.
Colin Campbell, executive director of Assist Social Capital, is shouting from the rooftops about how grassroots initiatives can utilise their own social capital.
The economic downturn gives us a unique chance to transform banks into champions of social justice, argues Toby Blume, chief executive of Urban Forum.
Social Enterprise now brings you Liam Black's monthly column, for free and in full, online.
John Pepin is consultancy firm JPA's Europe partner and has over 15 years as a CEO of a variety of charities and social enterprises. He also has a wealth of consultancy experience in many areas from strategic and business planning, to collaboration, sales and mentoring.
Here, he talks about his latest experience at a master class for social entrepreneurs in Indonesia.
People keep complaining that social enterprise does not have special tax reliefs available to encourage investment. It's technically correct, but it's not the full story, says charities tax expert Alastair Irvine.
Christopher Peacock founded Original Futures Ltd following a varied career, which included business development at IBM, setting up a social enterprise in Cairo, strengthening a humanitarian organisation in Lebanon and...setting up a board game company.
The culture of social enterprise within South Yorkshire has changed over the past five years, says Constance Thorpe, a social enterprise start-up adviser for Business Link Yorkshire.
Fresh produce, good food and local opportunities are the passions of the women at Flavour Gateway in east London, a social enterprise enabling workless women to find employment.
Cliff Southcombe is managing director of Social Enterprise Europe and recognised as one of the founders of the social enterprise movement in the early 1990s in the UK.
Fifteen CEO Penny Newman, Social Enterprise's new columnist, talks about the need for an identity and calls for your help
Body Gossip is a new initiative pioneered by Ruth Rogers, a 28-year-old actress and BBC presenter, who works on CBeebies. She is creating a platform for the celebration and support of healthy, realistic beauty and body images.
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a graduate of Unity University College and a co-founder and managing director SoleRebels [bostex plc], a footwear apparel company located in her ancestral village of Zenabwork, Ethiopia.
Our enterprise focuses on people living on social welfare. We provide them with jobs in our companies where they start at 20 hours a week and earn small wages. The rest of their living expenses are paid by social welfare.
Americans Casey Wilson and Courtney McColgan came up with the idea for Wokai, which means ‘I start' in Mandarin, while studying Chinese together at Beijing's Tsinghua University in 2007.
Rob Trimble reflects on the Cabinet Office minister Liam Byrne's announcement of a £42.5m third sector action plan on Monday 9 February and his visit, along with prime minister Gordon Brown, to the Bromley-By-Bow centre on the same day.
Afghan Action's CEO Chris Beales, recently took the extraordinary step of sending an email to all supporters telling them all about the huge impact of the downturn on the company's courageous work. The email highlighted the need for honesty, transparency, quick action and innovative thinking from social enterprises during this time. Read an edited version of his email here.
Sissy Roony, founder of social enterprise Street Style Surgery, is making waves in ethical fashion.
As an early Christmas present for all our readers, we are offering you this issue's guest commentator IN FULL. Sara Neuff and Ian Tuckett of Coin Street Community Builders talks about what the future holds.
By Robert Egger
By Michael Solomon
of See What You Are Buying Into Ltd
New commentator Richard Kemp, deputy chair of the LGA Liberal Democrat group
The Melting Pot in Edinburgh celebrates its first birthday
The Enterprising Solutions Awards celebrate ten years
As the sun really begins to shine on the burgeoning social enterprise movement in India and Bangladesh, Social Enterprise is taking travel journalism to new, quite ridiculous, heights.
A poem by Anneliese Emmans Dean, the BigBuzz Bard
Bev Meldrum of the Tool Factory discusses the Listening to the Social Entrepreneur conference at the University of East London.
Readers reach out to their fellow social entrepreneurs
The Social Investment Fund Network, was attacked simply because it was included in the Democratic platform, overlooking the fact that it has also been embraced by prominent Republicans
Benefits expert Judy Scott says welfare reforms have created an even bigger mess of the rules on part-time work or training
By Anne MacCaig, CEO of Cafédirect
New Cafédirect CEO Anne MacCaig on why ecology and fair trade are interconnected.
Nick Aldridge, CEO of MissionFish, discusses online impact and whether it's a help or a hindrance to organisations.
Many charities maintain a constant state of indignation that the government provides no funding to support their work. Often, these charities are achieving spectacular results across the policy spectrum. But would government funding help or hinder them? Nick Aldridge, CEO of MissionFish, discusses.
