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Steve Jobs How to Live before you die

  Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, sadly died this week. Steve Jobs co-founded Apple with school friend Steve Wozniak in 1976. Initially based out of his family garage in…

Youth Services

  The end of the summer holidays is fast approaching, have we seen the final acts of youth services as clubs and activities struggle to continue.   Youngsters in King’s Lynn park, Norfolk….

Social entrepreneur – five cornerstones

  Starting a business, social or otherwise, is a leap of faith. Faith in yourself or your team, faith in your product or service and faith in your audience, customers or community of…

Charities, Community Groups
and where to from here…

  Charities face closures as local authorities slash funding, making the delivery of community projects somewhere between hard and impossible. ‘Acevo (the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations) had already shown that…

Social change or social stagnation?

This short film, in the masterly RSAnimate series, features the ideas of Renata Salecl, a Slovenian social and legal theoretician. Her key argument is that choice in current society suppresses social change. That…

Daycare Trust’s 25th Anniversary Birthday Bash – 23 June 2011

The Birthday Bash took place in the State Rooms at Speakers House, with kind permission of the Speaker of the House of Commons, Rt Hon John Bercow MP. He welcomed the trust, with…

Public service co-operators

Moving from the wrap around direct support of the pubic sector and taking services into another social business form can be an amazing journey. It can also be a rocky road fraught with…

Realism in social business development

The short video below tells the story of an organisation and team, in this case, in the technology sector, that burned through 40 million dollars of capital in five years and failed on…

Creating a more equal and productive Britain

25th Anniversary Lecture Daycare Trust “Don’t blame families, support them and help them to achieve better outcomes.” Sir James Heckman By special invitation from Daycare Trust, the leading economist and Nobel Prize winner,…

Down Under in Sydney

Travelling to Sydney means more than just a visit down under. On our second visit this year to develop a literacy project for children and families we met with some great people; Year…