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  • Jumbos or dumbos?

    5 October 2007

    Fear or excitement? Disaster or opportunity? What should we make of big businesses entering the world of social enterprise? Is it a smart move on their part and are entrepreneurs wise to deal with them? Elliot Frankal reports ...more

  • You're hired!

    9 August 2007

    As winner of the first series of The Apprentice, Tim Campbell shot to fame simply by trying to get a job. Now one of the newly appointed social enterprise ‘ambassadors', his focus is on promoting business for ‘wealth creation, aspiration and improving communities'. He spoke to Dominic Wood ...more

  • More, more, more

    5 July 2007

    Social enterprises sometimes need a little help to strut their stuff and dazzle service buyers with a display of added value. Barbara Phillips reveals how one training course is enabling the third sector to show just how it delivers more, more, more! ...more

  • When buying: think locally, act globally

    12 June 2007

    Everyone's in favour of buying more local produce, aren't they? Jeremy Nicholls and Jenni Inglis explain why that might make social, environmental and developmental problems worse ...more

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    Hands on

    10 May 2007
    by
    Tim West

    It's a year since Ed Miliband got his first ministerial post, in charge of the third sector. Tim West asks him about achievements, statistics, Gordon Brown and where things are heading ...more

  • We're on the right path

    16 February 2007
    Thorny problems like pensions shouldn't stop social enterprises advancing into work with the NHS, says Julie Dent

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  • Local hero?

    21 January 2007
    by
    Tim West

    A year ago, David Cameron ordered most of his shadow cabinet and a host of policy advisers onto a Hackney Community Transport bus and toured the social enterprise highlights of London. ...more

  • Look out for that lightbulb moment

    21 January 2007

    Scottish leaders seem finally to be having a ‘lightbulb moment'. But what next for the sector north of the border? Antonia Swinson reports ...more

  • Stepping up

    11 December 2006

    With forewords by not just third sector minister Ed Miliband but also Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the government action plan Scaling New Heights is pulling out all the stops to show that social enterprise is being taken seriously at the highest level. Barbara Phillips, former director of the Social Enterprise Unit, assesses what it says about the sector - present and future ...more

  • Health, wealth & happiness

    14 November 2006

    Increasing demands and new ways of doing things mean one thing for the future of social enterprise in the areas of health and social care - opportunity, says Sue White, director of the Department of Health's new social enterprise unit ...more

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