Social enterprise Archives - Positive News

Wanted: community conscious businesses looking to scale

Hilary Armstrong — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:38:03 +0000

For entrepreneurs in England who want to improve the world, there’s a new programme that’s looking for recruits

Martin Wright — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 11:12:43 +0000

A retrofit academy is doing what politicians can't seem to – insulating homes, with the help of the long-term unemployed and single mums

Abby Young-Powell — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:00:56 +0000

A refugee fashion entrepreneur is turning lifejackets worn by asylum seekers into fashion items that support other refugees

Lucy Purdy — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:29:41 +0000

A London-based social enterprise uses floristry to help displaced women rebuild their lives – and it appears to be working

Gavin Haines — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:54:00 +0000

An annual ranking of organisations has revealed the best purpose-led companies to work for in 2021 – and most have vacancies

Suzanne Bearne — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:51:32 +0000

While Covid-19 delivered a blow to many companies, for some socially progressive startups it has provided a launchpad

Lucy Purdy — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:29:21 +0000

As well as helping to stop the spread of coronavirus, ‘peace masks’ support craftspeople living in places affected by war

Gavin Haines — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 17:35:53 +0000

The ‘dine in, to get them in’ scheme was launched by Fat Macy’s, a social enterprise that tackles homelessness

Gavin Haines — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 10:30:45 +0000

Street Space works with people in Dagenham, east London to make the public realm feel safer and more inviting

Gavin Haines — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:28:57 +0000

The #Task4Help initiative recruits time-rich students to source supplies for vulnerable people who can’t leave their homes