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Starting on the journey to income generation

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Moving from a culture of donations and grants to earning income can be a big step for some charities and for some it seems impossible but there are lots of different routes and you can start with small steps

Posted by Sarah Brown on 24 Feb '14 | Tags: charity social enterprise marketing local authority

How supporting your local community can increase your success at winning business

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The Social Value Act is based on the principle that value is not just about price, and organisations that meet the wider needs of the community should be rewarded.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 17 Feb '14 | Tags: entrepreneur social enterprise local authority public sector

Are you measuring your social impact effectively?

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Effectively measuring social impact is critical for any charity or social enterprise that wants to prosper - are you telling a good story?

Posted by Sarah Brown on 10 Feb '14 | Tags: charity social enterprise inspiration

Are you solving the right problem?

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Successful innovation i.e. innovation that has an impact depends on creating a solution to a problem that people perceive and then ensuring that they know about your solution. For organisations working with people who have a different view of the world this can be a challenge.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 27 Jan '14 | Tags: innovation charity social enterprise

What we can learn from South Africa

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The focus in South Africa is on creating sustainable jobs rather than giving charity, this should be the emphasis in the UK. Creating meaningful work changes communities much more than any hand out could.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 10 Dec '13 | Tags: charity social enterprise entrepreneur

Marketing - is your mousetrap good enough?

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Many times people are criticised for believing that if you build a better mousetrap people will come, when that is just not true. But the reverse is also not true ie you do need a product or service that works and adds benefits or all your marketing will be wasted

Posted by Sarah Brown on 04 Nov '13 | Tags: marketing entrepreneur social enterprise strategic development creative think tank

Winning by Doing Good

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How changing the world and success can coincide even in a simple business like mending shoes

Posted by Sarah Brown on 29 Oct '13 | Tags: csr family business entrepreneur charity social enterprise

Getting the most from community buildings

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It used to be a self evident truth that having a building was a good thing for a charity or community. However as our focus finder tool (c) illustrates things have changed as overheads have risen and occupancy rates have fallen.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 21 Oct '13 | Tags: charity social enterprise community interest company

How did Edison light the world - a little known fact and a huge goal

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Thomas Edison set the goal of lighting the world so he not only had to invent a great light bulb but he had to ensure there would be electricity to power it.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 11 Oct '13 | Tags: goal setting entrepreneur inspiration aspiration charity social enterprise

Who would have thought that a little blog about what is a social enterprise would cause such a stir

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As a consultant that specialises in social enterprise about a month ago I wrote a blog about the differences between business, charity and social enterprise. It has prompted some really interesting debate in LinkedIn groups particularly in the Charity UK and the Big Society groups where there have been over 50 comments. One of the most succinct responses was the first from Lucy Haughey, Director & Founder at The PlanB Partnership

Posted by Sarah Brown on 07 Oct '13 | Tags: charity social enterprise entrepreneur community interest company

How to win friends and influence people

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Stakeholder management seems to be more and more critical as society becomes more and more over communicated. Recently in very different circumstances it has become clear that many organisations have not worked out who they really need to communicate with, what they want to achieve and hence what they want to say.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 23 Sep '13 | Tags: charity social enterprise strategic development marketing

Is the route to success finding your passion and following it?

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Are you doing what you are passionate about? Seeing young people at the beginning of their career finding their passion and realising work can be fun is inspirational.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 15 Sep '13 | Tags: entrepreneur social enterprise inspiration

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