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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: VIEWPOINT

Viewpoint: Don't miss the bus

15 February 2008

Social enterprises will have to innovate if they are to avoid being overtaken by the private sector, argues social activist and author Robert Ashton

Viewpoint: Social enterprise doesn't have a monopoly on doing good

19 December 2007

Being a for-profit company can often be the best way to achieve social and environmental objectives, says Blue Ventures founder Tom Savage

Viewpoint: Exchange not the best finance solution

27 November 2007

A stock exchange for social enterprises would be as irrelevant as the current stock exchange is for conventional businesses, argues entrepreneur Robert Ashton.

Viewpoint: Make a profit and a difference

31 July 2007

Community interest companies provide the perfect balance of profits and social responsibility - if only more entrepreneurs knew what they were.

Viewpoint: Let's get social enterprise on TV

6 June 2007

There is no doubt that BBC1's The Apprentice, in which contestants battle it out for a job working for Amstrad boss Sir Alan Sugar, is my key viewing of the week.

A new way to fund social enterprise

26 April 2007

A marriage between charity and business could lead to the birth of social enterprises that will free charities from their dependence on statutory funding, says writer, consultant and speaker Robert Ashton.

Viewpoint: New Labour's limited view of social enterprise is leading to missed opportunities

4 April 2007

The Government's enthusiasm for what it mistakenly sees as the ‘new idea' of social enterprise is creating artificial divisions and resentments in the third sector, says London South Bank University's Alibeth Somers

Viewpoint: Are social enterprises part of the voluntary sector?

12 March 2007

Three experts debate whether social enterprises should be regarded as being part of the voluntary sector

Viewpoint: Skollarship, or how to forget your scruples

15 November 2006

Despite all the talk of new roles and mega-contracts, are traditional charities really part of a sunset industry, with flatlining income, poor investment and few prospects, stuck in the past, their endless scruples unfit for modern times?

Viewpoint: Social enterprises need support as well as scrutiny

17 May 2006

Although I do not agree with Paul Palmer's sentiment that social enterprises are a non-guilt-based substitution for charity, I can entirely understand the questions he raised in his article.

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