This week I visited the West Country to speak to a group of people working or interested...
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Back to blogStonehenge, Farms and Icebergs: Developing Successful Growth Strategies
I am rarely found up at 6am on a Saturday unless I am on my way back...
Life can be perfect, so raise a glass of Bollinger to a world of Social Enterprises.
It wasn’t Big Society or social value that got Mr. Cameron out of Downing St to celebrate...
Budget 2012: baby steps for parents, but much more is needed
You know you have grown up when you know the date of the budget, the Chancellor’s name...
Musing over a cocktail in the city
I have just come back from presenting to the judges of the National Business Awards on the...
Early Years, Dragons and Dolly Parton… or how bankers became our new best friends
The last few weeks have been a bit of an intellectual whirlwind, which always gets me really...
No half measures when it comes to social impact
There is much talk at the moment about the importance of measurement, including a reference to it...
Ready to grasp the nettle of our ‘hands-free’ future?
What would Lord Shaftsbury, Mary Carpenter or Dr Barnardo make of the ongoing political battle of what to cut...