Social Enterprise

SSE London graduation photos: social entrepreneurs galore…

I mentioned the London SSE graduation of 49 social entrepreneurs last week, and the photos have just arrived. Check out the slideshow below or see the full set on Flickr.

Shine 2010: buy your tickets to the social entrepreneurs unconference

Been busy of late: usual end-of-year shenanigans here, with programmes graduating (see this article on London SSE), and new ones starting (see this article on SSE coming to Wigan and Leigh), a launch of an SSE feasibility study (with MaRS...

Cornwall SSE and Hampshire SSE: new videos!

A couple more videos to share with you all, from the Cornwall and Hampshire SSEs respectively. The Cornwall video was shown at their recent graduation, and features interviews with the student social entrepreneurs as they come towards the end of...

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...

First ever Australian SSE cohort graduates in Sydney

Hot on the heels of the first ever Cornwall graduation, the first Australian SSE Fellows have completed their programme in Sydney. Huge congratulations to all of them. You can see their projects + organisations here, and you can read the...

Tim Smit tells first Cornwall SSE Fellows to be bold!

I was privileged to attend the first ever graduation of the Cornwall School for Social Entrepreneurs last Friday. And what a venue the Eden Project provided, thanks to Tim Smit + his team, for the first 15 social entrepreneurs from...

O2, social enterprise, and hitting the mainstream

Amongst all the hullabaloo and fall-out from the launch of the Social Enterprise Mark (see previous post for our take), most commentators missed what I think could be a much more important announcement made at Voice 10 last week: that...

(Social enterprise) mark my words….

One of the (many!) benefits of working at the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) is that we don’t have to spend too much of our time involved in the definition debates about “what is a social enterprise?” Social entrepreneurs start...