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The proliferation of terms and language used to describe the “not market-driven for-profit capitalism” sector could be weakening the sector’s identity and its impact. Read more
Now is the time for social enterprise.
If we’re going to see more of social enterprises, and more of them growing, we need to go right to the heart of strategy and understand the business models that make them work. Read more
The post-Covid world may offer new opportunities to push social enterprise as a force for good. But getting the business model right will be crucial. We’ve created a new social enterprise business model toolkit to help, based on a year of research in the UK. Part one explores the what and why of social enterprise business models, and the trade-offs to be managed. Read more
In a messy world, there is not much popular sense about that thing called the ‘economy’. Some never consider it, some are happy to let the ‘free market’ do its thing, and others are well aware that our current economic system is broken. But there is an alternative – the social economy. And we’ve all got a role to play in helping it grow. Read more
After new measures released today show that 14 million people live below the poverty line in the UK, we’re opening a new project to add to the mosaic of initiatives trying to reverse this trend.
In 2016 after doing some work with the team at Caritas Westminster, they took us to visit a building. An old, run-down, disused school then social club in Wembly. Surrounded by a massive development project, the question was – sell it to developers or do something with it? Read more