Welcome to the Guardian social enterprise network podcast — a new, monthly podcast about social enterprise. Over the coming months, we'll be speaking to social entrepreneurs and those who fund them, buy from them and work with them, exploring the issues that social enterprises face as they do good through business.
Sean McGinty, a radio journalist and social entrepreneur from Lancashire, presents and produces this podcast.
On the podcast this month
A round up of social enterprise news from around the UK this month, from Westminster, Scotland and Brighton.
Kevin Hayes, the chief executive of ENTA (a Birmingham-based training-to-catering social enterprise) talks about trading with big corporates and extracting the social responsibility dollar.
We hear from the man on whose shoulders the Public Services (Social Enterprise and Social Value) Bill rests. Conservative MP Chris White tells us he's very confident the Lords will pass the Bill by the deadline of March 2012.
In last month's programme we heard from Brighter Future Workshop, the winner of The Guardian Social Enterprise Award 2011. This month Sean McGinty gets his hands dirty (well not really) and visits their workshop in Skelmersdale.
And is the link between the big society and social enterprise toxic? Communications consultant Simon Francis thinks it is and that there's another way to brand the movement.
Our next podcast will be published in mid January. If you've got any ideas for features, get in touch with Sean McGinty or social enterprise network editor David Mills.
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