Students help social enterprise scheme
Students from Reading University have been putting their entrepreneurial skills to good use at a social enterprise scheme. Community Interest Company Chissock Woodcraft benefitted from short placements by a number of students keen to learn more about the not-for-profit sector, reports the Reading Post.
Women Like Us launch Timewise
Part-time recruiter and jobsite Timewise Recruitment and Timewise Jobs have been launched by the owners of specialist recruiter and social enterprise Women Like Us (WLU), with funding from the Social Business Trust (SBT), reports Recruiter.
The Art Basel of sustainability
Social entrepreneur John Noone blogs for the Huffington Post on 'Sustainatopia', a weeklong eco-festival/conference brainchild of visionary sustainability consultant, John Rosser, and Miami's philanthropic event of the year. The conference focused on 'the interdisciplinary field of social entrepreneurship'.
Action on empty Leeds council houses
A campaign to bring thousands of empty Leeds homes back into use is to be launched this month, reports the Yorkshire Evening Post. Described as a "call to action" on empty homes and devised by Social Business Brokers, a Leeds-based social enterprise run by entrepreneurs Rob Greenland and Gill Coupland, the initiative will seek to develop practical and socially innovative solutions to renovate homes and bring them back into use.
Social Enterprise Scotland appoints new chief executive
Social Enterprise Scotland has formerly announced Fraser Kelly as its new chief executive. Read Fraser's social enterprise network article on this Thursday's local elections.
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