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Social enterprise: stand up and deliver, says Guardian

February 24, 2010
by Alun Severn
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Today’s Guardian includes a four-page supplement called Good Business — a social enterprise special, “paid for by the Social Investment Business, all editorial content commissioned by the Guardian, to a brief agreed with the Social Investment Business” (as the
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Scotland rejects Social Enterprise Mark as a soft touch

February 11, 2010
by Alun Severn
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Further to this post, and this on the new national Social Enterprise Mark — which was relaunched recently at Voice10, it seems that opinion is now divided regarding how stringent the mark is in its qualifying criteria. While John Bird has pledged to secure the Mark so that it ca
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SEC chief: “Neither fair trade nor organic alone = social enterprise”

February 04, 2010
by Alun Severn
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Further to Mark Ellerby’s post on the Cadbury buy-out, I was interested to see today, in Peter Holbrook’s blog — he’s the new CEO at the Social Enterprise Coalition — these comments. Holbrook is referring to a recent piece in the Financial Times: I love t
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Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK

February 01, 2010
by Alun Severn
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The recent report of the National Equality Panel, An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK (published by the Government Equality Office and produced by a team co-ordinated by The Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion — CASE — at the London School of Economics) is now
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