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Social Entrepreneurs Network

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The Social Entrepreneurs Network is a network for all those interested in social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. The aim is to solve some of the practical challenges faced by social entrepreneurs.

Members: 361
Latest Activity: on Thursday

Thank you for joining this group.

The Social Entrepreneurs network hold regular monthly breakfasts (last Friday of each month) and quarterly events looking at how we can help social enterprises. In November 2010, we launched Social Enterprise Spotlight, a case study of 8 social entrepreneurs and RSA Fellows over the course of a year.

We now have a new batch of Spotlighters who started in March 2012:

Neil Basil – Patient Choice                             Asma Shah – Ladies Who L-EARN
Becky John – Whomadeyourpants?              Patrick Shine – FranchisingWorks
Maria Ana Neves - Plan Zheroes                   Eugenie Teasley – Spark+Mettle
Steve Ralf – Inklusive CIC                             Kate Welch – Reap & Sow
Richard Raynes – SportInspired

We'd also like to hear about any social enterprise events taking place, UK and world-wide so please post any activities or events on the wall below. Please also use this space as a forum to ask any questions or if you have any problems you need sorted!

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Started by Charlotte Pawle. Last reply by Charlotte Pawle Apr 5.

Calling all Social Entrepreneurs looking to raise finance for their social or environmental business

Dear Fellow Social Entrepreneurs,Join us in this mission to…Continue

Tags: sustainable, finance, funding, business, ethical

Started by Dr Ragini Ghosh Apr 4.

Introducing the Tech for Good Challenge! 2 Replies

Dear RSA fellows,I'm Isabelle, currently interning for the Big Issue Invest (social investment arm of the Big Issue) and I would like to invite you to take on the Tech for Good Challenge or share it among people you think would be…Continue

Tags: charities, business, people, young, social

Started by Big Issue Invest (Isabelle). Last reply by Big Issue Invest (Isabelle) Apr 4.

Corporate Citizenship

University of Northampton Business School, Centre for Citizenship Enterprise and Governance, is currently recruiting two positions to a new and emerging sector.Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer in Corporate Citizenship (26 March) …Continue

Tags: corporate, enterprise, governance, impact, social

Started by Professor Olinga Taeed Mar 13.

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Comment by Antoinette Saxer on November 16, 2011 at 1:36: Do you believe in people power? You might like THE GOOD FASHION SHOW on Vimeo!http://vimeo.com/32158111

Comment by Adrian Ashton on November 14, 2011 at 19:23: speaking of events for this week, there's various things planned for social enterprise day on the thursday - for those fellows in the North, I'm speaking at Salford Uni on Thursday evening on how I became an accidental entrepreneur and some of the realities of working in the sector- more info at http://bit.ly/sFK6hZ

Comment by Trudy Thompson on November 14, 2011 at 18:24: Just to let you know that its the Shine Unconference this week, lots of interesting people will be there, I think its worth attending. But then maybe I am a bit biased!

I'm taking part on Thursday, with a panel session at 11 and giving the keynote speech at 12pm, and Nick Hurd MP will be there later on in the day too. http://eepurl.com/g7zJ6

Comment by David Floyd on November 14, 2011 at 16:50: Blog post on health 'social enterprise' Circle Health taking over an NHS hospital: http://beanbagsandbullsh1t.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/virtuous-circle/

Comment by Diana Coman on November 10, 2011 at 15:16: Hi everyone, I am looking for a company who would be able to develop an app based service for community use - does anyone know a company or consultant who I might contact for assistance? Many thanks.

Comment by John Parman on November 2, 2011 at 17:35: Hi Everyone,

I wanted to let people know about the Tata Social Enterprise Conference on 3 and 4 December at Imperial College. Speakers include Nigel Kershaw, CEO of Big Issue Invest, Peter Holbrook of Social Enterprise UK, Rod Schwartz, founder & CEO of ClearlySO, and Edwin Broni-Mensah, founder of GiveMeTap. Early bird tickets are on sale for £25 for both days at http://tatasec.eventbrite.com. I look forward to seeing you there. You can feel free to e-mail me at john@nacue.com if you have any questions.

Comment by Caroline Veal on November 2, 2011 at 15:22: Hi Everyone,

This is a notice to invite any fellows - who will be near Sheffield on Thursday 10th November - to a meeting of the Sheffield Social Enterprise Network between 5 and 7pm at SCEDU (Sheffield Community Enterprise Development Unit) www.scedu.org.uk

There is a map on the web site

RSA Fellows in Sheffield are working in partnership with SCEDU to support this network. The guest speaker at this meeting will be Edward Highfield who is Sheffield City Council's Director of Director of Economy, Enterprise and Skills. Edward Highfield will be attending the meeting on behalf of the local authority's social enterprise steering group. This will be a unique opportunity to find out more about the Sheffield City Council's social enterprise steering group and to open up a dialogue between social entrepreneurs in the city and the city council.

We do need to keep an eye on numbers so if you are planning to come could you please email: caron.bembrick@scedu.org.uk

Comment by Sarah Tucker on November 2, 2011 at 12:49: Hi all

Following the event, Survive before you Thrive on 12th October we will be carrying on the discussion via the online Q&A's on the Guardian Social Entreprise network.

This is taking place tomorrow from 1-3pm and the headline for the discussion is Optimizing your Revenue Streams. You can see the Q&A online here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-enterprise-network/2011/oct/31/opt...

If you want to be part of the expert panel, please either let me know or get in touch with Gines - you can see his email in the link above. Please take a look tomorrow and pitch in any questions!

Comment by Colin Crooks on November 2, 2011 at 11:33: I agree with david that the issue of how we achieve profit and social outcomes can be a bit dull but that said I think it is our mission to persuade others that social and environmental returns can be created as an integral part of the business model. We have to accept that the current money and margins only model has been embedded for a long time now and it will take a lot to shift the ingrained perceptions. See my blog http://bit.ly/tVUgVw in FM World aimed at getting some pretty conservative managers to think a bit different

Comment by David Floyd on November 1, 2011 at 0:08: Blog answering one of the least interesting questions in the world of social enterprise: http://beanbagsandbullsh1t.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/how-do-you-bala...