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Recession-beating social enterprises seek new opportunities

30 June 2009

The recession is creating new business opportunities for social enterprises and has not yet stalled access to finance, according to research published by Business Link in London today. ...more

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Taxpayers’ bail out prompts calls for greater transparency
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Something to hide?

1 July 2009

Pressure is mounting on high street banks to reveal where they do and do not invest. Henry Palmer investigates why this would help social enterprises identify new market opportunities ...more

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Brown's pre-election vision considers boosting public private support for sector

30 June 2009

A lack of growth capital for social enterprises and other small and medium sized businesses is threatening the UK's competitiveness, says the prime minister Gordon Brown in his blueprint for this government, launched yesterday. ...more

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Liam Black, founder of Wavelength

Liam's Got Issues: July

1 July 2009

When the going gets tough... social entrepreneurs don't act like politicians, argues Liam Black ...more

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Expert eye: TAX

1 July 2009

A looming election and important practical and philosophical issues are putting tax on the agenda, argues Edward Finch of Buzzacott Chartered Accountants ...more

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Craig Dearden-Phillips is founder and CEO of Speaking Up

Brown's plans are politics, not policy, says Deaden-Phillips

1 July 2009
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
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Dame Pauline Green, CEO of Co-operatives UK
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Lunch With...Pauline Green

1 July 2009

Co-operatives are burgeoning and their representative body is pushing for the laws governing them to be revamped. Claudia Cahalane talks to Co-operatives UK CEO Pauline Green about the future of the sector plus her own retirement plans ...more

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