Serving Community Enterprise

March 2010 Blog Posts (5)

Counting Social Enterprises

Catch my latest blog here if you want to know how many social enterprises there are in the UK. Bob

Added by Bob Northey on March 31, 2010 at 18:18 — No Comments

Quotes4Charity CIC and Co-operative Financial Services offer exciting new fundraising opportunity

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Hi Everyone

If your favourite charity is looking for new ways to raise income, please feel free to let them know about us. This is the first time this type of affinity partnership is being offered and is a free and easy way to add another string to the fundraising bow.

Would love your feedback…

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Added by John Mulkerrin on March 22, 2010 at 20:00 — 1 Comment

Adrian Ashton's website is currently 'unwell'...

dear all - sadly my main website is unwell.

Hopefully back up before too long, but until then thanks for your patience if you're trying to access copies of any of my published articles, cheesy pics or links...

in the meantime you can still see my blog - http://thirdsectorexpert.blogspot.com, follow my tweets at…

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Added by Adrian Ashton on March 21, 2010 at 21:10 — 1 Comment

franchising social enterprise - replicating the 'magic dust' and the hidden danger within?

I’ve been involved in the replication of social enterprises and co-operatives since 1998: as a member of a worker co-op that was licensed from another successful original worker co-op (which led to my being asked by some to comment on the failure of the Whole food Planet franchise that was based loosely on it earlier this year); as a manager of one of the regions of the ill-fated Aspire: the first attempt at creating a formal franchised social enterprise in every region of the country;… Continue

Added by Adrian Ashton on March 7, 2010 at 21:31 — 4 Comments