Social Enterprise on the Blog

Northwest Region Awards EN Magazine North West Entrepreneur Awards 2010 - EN Magazine’s North West Entrepreneur of the Year Awards scheme, now in its ninth year, exists to honour the achievements of the region’s most tenacious and successful entrepreneurs – and to provide encouragement and a standard against which they can measure themselves to those who Read more... 0

This week saw the small island nation of Mauritius getting its Global Entrepreneurship Week preparations off to a big start with the Entrepreneurial Training Workshop. The programme has been organised by the Week’s organisers on the island, Empretec Mauritius. This week’s ETW is one of a series of six Workshops that Empretec is organising in the build Read more... 0

Northwest Ambassador Chris Arnold has launched a worldwide competition which will see participants compete and develop skills in enterprise and social responsibility. The winners will receive a once in a lifetime prize to travel the world for a year meeting entrepreneurs and world leaders.  ‘Your Big Year’ is an official ‘Global Entrepreneurship Week’ event that provides Read more... 0

Nationally we’re all of a quiver about the general election, the closest fought battle for many a year and like a good slap-stick comedy we’re all watching just to see who walks over the open man-hole next, or which guy ducks when the guy with the ladder over his shoulder spins round. We’re not nearly Read more... 1

President Barack Obama yesterday kick-started the two-day Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, as over 250 delegates from nearly 60 countries – including a number of our Global Entrepreneurship Week hosts from around the world gathered in Washington D.C. The summit is the realisation of a pledge dating back to Obama’s speech in Cairo last summer – Read more... 0

An entire school of enterprising students from Blakeston School in Stockton turned their assembly hall into a bustling marketplace for the day as part of the national Make your Mark with a Tenner competition, and I was there to witness the madness! During the last Friday of the Tenner Challenge Month all 585 students from Blakestone School were Read more... 0

A simple programme of business training and support, raised aspirations and encouraged residents on the Aylesbury Estate in the London Borough of Southwark to take action to address the issue of unemployment on their local housing estate.In less than a year 14 social enterprises have been established with most of the entrepreneurs already making sales and Read more... 0

The 10 finalists of Connaught’s Big Community Idea challenge came together at Shine in Leeds to be inspired, informed and connected in preparation for their presentations at the final on the 30th April. Linda Crosby of Connaught’s reminded finalists of the requirements for the final, Jane Walton of Enteprise UK provided an insight from a Read more... 0

Enterprise UK is running a series of  ‘Manifesto Camps’ exploring the biggest issues for entrepreneurs in the UK and how these problems could be solved; with ideas feeding into the Enterprise Manifesto.This week’s session looked at the future of entrepreneurship, including the best ways to encourage social entrepreneurship and social innovation. Setting the scene for Read more... 0