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Book – Cycle
By Tim Wilson The shop is tucked amongst an enclave of Tudor buildings, clustered beside Exeter’s ancient city wall. Behind its pitched beams and leaded bay windows a quiet revolution is taking place. Book-Cycle is a shop with a difference; the customer decides the price. Volunteer run throughout, the charity is a champion of […]
News Digest – 11/7/13
SIX NEWS UPDATES featuring Building Lives (above), Nominet Trust, Belu, Action For Children and Alston Moor BUILDING LIVES CONSTRUCTING CAREERS – Building Lives, an award-winning construction training academy (above) has joined the Department of Work Pensions youth pledge, promising further employment prospects for young people. The social enterprise launched with the 2011 rebrand of the […]
Online Journalism Training
THE BIG ISSUE has started a new online journalism programme in London involving eight trainees with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. The six-week programme, supported by Nominet Trust and delivered by social enterprise Poached Creative, is a first for The Big Issue and a chance for the street magazine to amplify the voices of […]
Accenture Development Partnership
BY FIGEN GUNES Intrapreneurship is such a new phenomenon even typing it involves a challenge as at every attempt Microsoft Word autocorrects the writer and suggests “entrepreneur” instead. It’s not the only challenging thing about this unusual role. It’s not a job that anybody applies for it. It’s more of a mindset and an approach […]
Rural Media / Travellers’ Times
By Figen Gunes Through publishing a magazine, members of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities in the UK are equipping themselves with better tools to fight against misconceptions and misrepresentations in mainstream media. Travellers’ Times magazine, a quarterly publication, is a social enterprise published by the Rural Media Company with an aim of […]
Pantrepreneurship Challenge
By Figen Gunes Flashing pants in a local market to sell may not sound appealing to many youngsters. But teams of young social entrepreneurs were motivated for a socially conscious task; improving fair trade through ‘Pantrepreneurship Challenge’, a national student enterprise competition. “Some customers said they can get hundreds of pants from Primark for that […]
Building Lives
By Figen Gunes It’s the middle of a tour of a life-changing apprenticeship academy; the guide is the multi-millionaire founder of the award-winning social enterprise: Building Lives. But he crosses a line by opening a door to an exam room. “Keep quiet. Close the door,” says the teacher as we are ushered out. Steve Rawlings […]
App Factor at Queens Park Community School
HOW TO GET KIDS INTERESTED IN APPS AND SOFTWARE // On Friday September 7, Queens Park Community School (QPCS) walked into the first day of school and found that not everything was as we’d left it. Scattered around the school were odd little logos with a big “A” and some weird gibberish in the middle. […]
Youth against crime not crime against you
By Figen Gunes “Youth against crime not crime against you” (YACNCAY) was set up by award-winning philanthropist Dr Bernadine Toyin Idowu to steer young people away from street crime. Her approach is to get involved in communities and she is setting up an innovative peer-to-peer mentoring scheme. “How many parents say to their children […]
Just for Kids Law
By Figen Gunes “Courts say, ‘it is my role to punish.’ Lawyers say, ‘it is my role to get you off.’ And teachers say, ‘I only teach’ – but no one is looking at the whole picture of troubled children,” says Shauneen Lambe, co-founder of Just for Kids Law, a not-for-profit legal advice company for […]
