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Social Enterprise World Forum 2019 — day three

October 24, 2019
by Alun Severn
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: 23rd – 25th October 2019 It’s day three for iSE’s chief exec Sarah Crawley and Citizen Coaching’s Martin Hogg who are both at the Social Enterprise World Forum. Sarah  has sent us another fascinating update… *  *  *  *
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Social Enterprise World Forum 2019 — day two

October 23, 2019
by Alun Severn
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: 23rd – 25th October 2019 It’s day two for iSE’s chief exec Sarah Crawley at the Social Enterprise World Forum and she has been good enough to send us another fascinating update… *  *  *  * Sarah writes… People are begi
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Social Enterprise World Forum 2019 makes history — first SEWF to be held in a developing economy

October 22, 2019
by Alun Severn
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: 23rd – 25th October 2019 The Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) is the leading forum for international exchange and collaboration in social entrepreneurship and social investment. And this year, it is making history — SEWF enters its second decade and fo
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Late but ‘live’ — final thoughts from SEWF 2018, Edinburgh

September 18, 2018
by Alun Severn
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As Sarah noted in her previous post, she may now be back from Edinburgh — and with a lot of catching up to do — but there is still a lot of value in sharing what she learnt from this year’s SEWF. We agree, and so here is her last post from Edinburgh. * This is my las
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Late but ‘live’ — more from Social Enterprise World Forum 2018, Edinburgh

September 17, 2018
by Alun Severn
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This — a little late, but we’ll call it ‘live’ — just in from Sarah Crawley who has been blogging from Edinburgh about what she is hearing and learning at SEWF 2018. * Writing from Edinburgh, Sarah says: Sorry this is slightly delayed but I still want to
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Live from Social Enterprise World Forum 2018 — Edinburgh, day 2

September 13, 2018
by Alun Severn
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Blogging live from this year’s Social Enterprise World Forum in Edinburgh, Sarah Crawley has just sent her latest update. * Well it really has been an amazing start and I hope the next two days are as good as Wednesday was! Scottish musicians and especially drummers formally ope
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Live from Social Enterprise World Forum 2018 — Edinburgh

September 12, 2018
by Alun Severn
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As we wrote in this post, the Social Enterprise World Forum has returned to the UK after 10 years of travelling the world, one continent at a time, and this year’s host city is Edinburgh. As in previous years, Sarah Crawley has kindly offered to do some live blogs so t
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Social Enterprise World Forum 2018 Edinburgh — discounts available for WM contingent but time is running out

July 03, 2018
by Alun Severn
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As we previously note in this post, the Social Enterprise World Forum returns to the UK after 10 years of travelling the world, one continent at a time. Edinburgh is the 2018 host city and the event takes place between September 12th-15th. Sarah Crawley, who has become something
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Social Enterprise World Forum 2018 — get ready for Edinburgh… Discounts available for WM contingent

February 12, 2018
by Alun Severn
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Sarah Crawley has asked that the following is made widely known to clients, friends and supporters of ISE and BSSEC. You will recall that last year Sarah spoke at and blogged from the Social Enterprise World Forum in New Zealand, as she did in 2009 from Australia. Many of you rea
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Yet more news from New Zealand — Social Enterprise World Forum 2017

September 28, 2017
by Sarah Crawley
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Greetings again from Christchurch, New Zealand, and the Social Enterprise World Forum 2017. This follows on from my first and second posts. I woke up bright and early this morning feeling excited that the conference was moving into ‘practice’ with workshops for practitioners and
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More news from New Zealand — Social Enterprise World Forum 2017

September 27, 2017
by Sarah Crawley
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Further to my earlier post, greetings from a rather chilly Christchurch, New Zealand, and the Social Enterprise World Forum 2017. A great start today, but the weather is cold and I shall definitely wear warmer clothes tomorrow. When attending conferences, I always wonder how
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News from New Zealand — the Social Enterprise World Forum 2017

September 26, 2017
by Sarah Crawley
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Well, here I am in Christchurch, New Zealand, at the Social Enterprise World Forum 2017. Early last summer I was approached by the team planning the SEWF 2017 who asked if I would like to deliver a workshop drawing on my experience of running networks. My immediate answer was “I
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Live from the Social Enterprise World Forum — Day 3

October 09, 2009
by Alun Severn
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Another excellent day! I am never sure about study tours – over the years I seem to have visited many social enterprises which are in reality projects and bear little resemblance to anything enterprising! Top of my list of things to do was to visit the Bonsai Social Firm – famous beca
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Live from the Social Enterprise World Forum — Day 2

October 08, 2009
by Alun Severn
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Let me tell you a joke I heard today: How many social entrepreneurs does it take to change a light bulb? 15: 2 for feasibility; 5 board members; 3 bid/tender writing; 3 delivering services; 2 to evaluate. I thought this was quite funny! The themes for today were ‘pathways to success’
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Live from the Social Enterprise World Forum — Day 1

October 07, 2009
by Alun Severn
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Well what can I say – what an amazing day! The key themes to start the conference were ‘new markets, employment and sustainability’ three absolutely key issues for the growth of the sector. The first session kicked off with a well known TV presenter interviewing a panel collected from
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Live from the Social Enterprise World Forum — Melbourne 2009

October 07, 2009
by Alun Severn
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I’m writing from the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) 2009 in Melbourne right after the opening ceremony on Tuesday 6th October. I arrived late Monday evening (5th Oct) having travelled for about 24 hours via Heathrow and Bangkok. I was very lucky to meet Gerry Higgins (CEO
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