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  • UYDO

    The bottom line: the young helping the young

    10 March 2010

    The United Youth Development Organization (UYDO) is a youth-led social enterprise that helps young people in Africa lift themselves out of poverty while empowering young people in the UK with meaningful employment, says founder and CEO Espen Berg ...more

  • The bottom line: Treading the boards as a social enterprise

    4 March 2010

    Anna Fiorentini, 36, grew up Hackney, east London. She loved acting, but there was no professional performing arts training available in the area. At 28 she set up the Anna Fiorentini Theatre & Film School in Hackney for young people to offer them more affordable training. Her students have gone on to star in Hollywood films. ...more

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    The bottom line: MP Smith And Divine's Tranchell swap jobs

    25 February 2010

    As the boss of Divine, Sophi Tranchell is well known as both a leading social entrepreneur and a provider of one of the UK's leading ethical treats - chocolate! In her role as a Social Enterprise Ambassador, she swapped her day job for that of another of the sector's most important figures, third sector minister Angela Smith. ...more

  • The bottom line: the Social Impact Camp

    17 February 2010

    No bent tent pegs or baked beans here - it's the Social Impact Camp. It's a simple catch up of like minded people looking at ways to measure their social impact, says one of its founders, Ben Matthews of volunteer-led communications agency Bright One. ...more

  • David Barker, founder of Whitebox Digital

    The bottom line: Digital solutions to unemployment

    11 February 2010

    David Barker was 16, uneducated and unemployed 23 years ago. Now he runs IT solutions social enterprise Whitebox Digital to give disadvantaged people the training and job opportunities he worked so hard for. ...more

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    VOICE10: They Said You Said

    2 February 2010
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    Social Enterprise reporters
    The most thought-provoking quotes from Voice10, the social enterprise conference held from 1-2 February in Cardiff
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  • Phillip Blond
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    Lunch with... Phillip Blond

    1 February 2010
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    Chrisanthi Giotis

    Could a stronger social enterprise movement help to destroy class politics? Chrisanthi Giotis and the 'Red Tory' philosophise and prophesise over lunch at the Bleeding Heart ...more

  • Ed Mayo
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    (Co)Producing a new world

    29 January 2010

    Ed Mayo, the new secretary general of Co-operatives UK, says five actions are needed to wake up to a mainstream ethical and sustainable economy ...more

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    The new faces of healthcare

    29 January 2010
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    Gemma Hampson

    Move over darling, there are 20 new social enterprises in town. Gemma Hampson reports on the first wave of 'right to request' social businesses escaping NHS bureaucracy and shaking up the health service ...more

  • AMF Mobile Creche

    The bottom line: Baby boon

    27 January 2010

    Childcare can be an expensive business...just ask any parent! But flexible childcare at a time you need it and the place you want it can be a boon to your organisation or event, says Caroline Richardson, co-ordinator of AMF Mobile Creche ...more

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