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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: INSIGHT

Funding story: Social enterprises

26 September 2007

Social enterprises are trendy. So why are so few third sector organisations applying for grants to start them up?

Insight: The agony and ecstasy of social enterprise's boom

20 February 2007

When the Aspire Group catalogue company went bust in 2004, the negative headlines demonstrated that social enterprises are more open to criticism than traditional companies when things go wrong.

Insight: Co-operatives: The pioneers live on

5 July 2006

The alternative to both the state and the market created by a group of 19th-century Rochdale mill workers is currently very much in vogue. Mathew Little reports on the renaissance of the co-operative movement.

Insight: Practising what you preach

2 March 2005

The social enterprise sector has blossomed so much over the past decade that charities no longer need to compromise their values by using unethical suppliers, writes Annie Kelly

Insight: Charities get the ethical investment bug

14 May 2003

Ethical investment by charities in social enterprises is on the rise, writes Mathew Little

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