Learning

The balancing act

Balance isn't sexy, controversial or thrilling; but it is underrated. This has been on my mind recently because of a few different things: - I spoke at an UpRising event for the Young Foundation, with reference to social entrepreneurship and...

Social enterprise and entrepreneurship links from September

Slightly delayed due to the SSE residential, but here's my round-up of interesting, relevant and topical links in the world of social enterprise and entrepreneurship from September: - Not officially September, but as I'm late, two events from early October...

Learning from failure (and social entrepreneurship)

I attended a fascinating lunchtime seminar the other week. It's not often the words 'fascinating', 'lunchtime' and 'seminar' are used in juxtaposition, so thought I would share some of the key points from the session. It was called, Trial, Error...

Social enterprise and entrepreneurship links from August

Lots to do, lots to read, lots more to do.... My last post-holiday round-up seemed to go down well, so thought I'd do the same for August as I did for July. No particular rationale, just stuff I've found interesting...

Social entrepreneurs in Fife: Tracey, Frankie, Alfie and Kathleen

It’s been a great and amazing couple of days, reaffirming why I love working in this field, and what it can achieve. Wednesday included a ‘webinar’ on using social media with Fellows dialling in from across the UK and Australia,...

The real deal social entrepreneurs in Yorkshire

Great to go and visit our Yorkshire and Humber SSE today, and not just because East Coast trains do free wi-fi (hooray)...but also much more importantly to get a catch-up on how the first programme is going up there, and...

Mentoring social entrepreneurs

At the recent Cornwall SSE graduation event, Tim Smit urged the social entrepreneurs in front of him to not just find themselves a mentor, but to demand one: he views it as that important. And there is no doubt that...