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Interview: Andrew Haigh
David Ainsworth, Third Sector
Date: 2010-07-29

Help business angels to help others, says the managing partner of Coutts & Co's entrepreneur group

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1.4 million people living in homes that cut off their energy supply – warns Consumer Focus
Consumer Focus
Date: 2010-07-29

Consumer Focus is today calling on energy suppliers to transform the experience of the 8.8m people who rely on pre-pay meters.

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Vital Stats
Senscot
Date: 2010-07-28

In late 2009, Senscot carried out a pilot `Vital Stats Survey` on three Social Enterprise Networks (SENs) – Aberdeen, Dundee and Clackmannanshire. Vital Stats look to record key information with regard to a social enterprise’s economic activity

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The new social entrepreneurs: introduction
Charles Orton-Jones, RealBusiness.co.uk
Date: 2010-07-28

Entrepreneurs turned philanthropists. Ethical retailers. Not-for-profit game-changers. These entrepreneurs are running ground-breaking, profitable businesses – with a difference. This new breed has a social conscience.

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Transforming your community isn't rocket science - get involved!
Sarah Eustace from DTA's Asset Transfer Unit
Date: 2010-07-28

The Asset Transfer Unit is launching the second round of its Building Community programme - supporting communities to take responsibility for land, buildings and services that are being transferred to them by councils and others to deliver broad-ranging community benefits.

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Cameron commits to funding reform for the "first" sector

Date: 2010-07-28

CHARITIES could be on the brink of saving around £lbn a year, after the Prime Minister said he would look at funding charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises on the same basiS as government.

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Prime minister's flagship idea at risk as reduced funding for community-based activity threatens to undermine local power
Patrick Butler, The Guardian
Date: 2010-07-28

Cuts to the local structures capable of delivering David Cameron's 'big society' pose a threat to the plan, say charity chiefs.

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The new dark age
Ben Okri, The Guardian
Date: 2010-07-28

The looting and burning of Iraq's museums and libraries has left us all losers

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There's a good idea in Cameron's 'big society' screaming to get out
Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian
Date: 2010-07-28

Labour must seize this flawed initiative from the Tories, reclaim its Labour origins and then set about improving it

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Specialisterne Scotland

Date: 2010-07-28

Specialisterne Scotland is a new business that is being established in Glasgow. It is based on Specialisterne Denmark, a social enterprise created by Thorkil Sonne in Copenhagen in 2004 after his son was diagnosed with an ASD. Specialisterne is the Danish word for ‘Specialists’.

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