Currently, on my return to work, I am somewhere between B and C in the image to the left. Cleared the inbox (almost) yesterday, and now catching up on everything that's happened since I've been away.

To which the short answer is "far too much to put in one post". So I'm taking the easy / sensible way out, and posting up a load of the most interesting and relevant links during the last month that have passed through the inbox / twitter / etc Hopefully they are for you too.

• social.entrepreneurship.survey.2010.pdf (application/pdf Object) Pdf of findings from Echoing Green survey about people applying to them

• Charities Evaluation Service: strategy Useful, short guide to implementing strategy

• Demos | Publications (SROI etc) Demos report on Measuring Social Value (pdf)

  
  
  
  
• Getlegal Legal Structures advice + decision-making website for charities, social enterprise etc
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  Greater Manchester Endorses FranchisingWorks Project | The Shaftesbury Partnership Interesting franchising project set to take off in Manchester

• The science to Big Soc(k)s. « Peter Holbrook's Blog Peter Holbrook's latest take on Big Society, drawing on his Gillingham experience

• Dan Pallotta on "misfit entrepreneurs" – Leadership :: Real Business – The Champion of UK Enterprise Vulnerability as the key characteristic of entrepreneurs?

•  Sparkbox New London social enterprise venue / event space from SSE Fellow James Greenshields' Media for Development

• Riverside market garden – local food for Cardiff Amazing Riverside Market Garden initiative from SSE Fellow Steve Garrett: buy shares!
  

• Interview: Andrew Haigh – Third Sector Article on Coutts' new social enterprise advisory service, including SSE

• Schumpeter: Profiting from non-profits | The Economist Economist article on what business can learn from charity

• Is the British middle class an endangered species? | UK news | The Guardian Alison Ogden Newton of SEL in middle-class Guardian piece

• The Daily Networker » Blog Archive » Exploring the Big Society Good round up of Big Society thus far from Oli Barrett
  

• We need a new name for the coalition’s idea of localism: New Start Centrally-directed localism? Critical comment from Julian Dobson
  

• World's largest reuse network launches with £8m funding | Social Enterprise Great new reuse and recycling initiative in London, led by SSE's former Director of Learning Matthew Thomson

• Health secretary challenges ‘narrow’ definition of social enterprise | Social Enterprise Definition debates anew (sector yawns)
  

• Beyond definitions – building a social future | Growing Business Coutts / Growing Business lunch discussion on social entrepreneurs

• Yunus to star in The Simpsons | Social Enterprise Looking forward to Homer being entrusted with a loan….for beer and donuts?

• Six New Rules for Social Enterprise Start-ups | Social Enterprise US advice for #socent start-ups