by Melanie Glass (@devinshb)
SSE Fellow Melanie Glass has just celebrated the first anniversary of her business Devenishgirl Bakery operating as a social enterprise and to mark the event is writing a series of articles covering her journey; from taking the leap of faith to start a social enterprise, to the impact their work makes, how to dream bigger and several other themes.
I am very excited, as I’m off on holiday to the Canary Islands tomorrow and can briefly escape this cold weather. No Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You next week, but I’m sure that you’ll manage without it.
Here’s this week’s news:
A very wise man reminded me earlier this week that ‘a change is as good as a rest’. Never one to ignore advice, I decided that it was time to go full Gok Wan and give Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You a makeover. The content will remain the same though; useful links buried amongst inane babble and appalling puns.
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Here’s this week’s news:
Woah. Hold your horses. We won’t have language like that around here, this ain’t no Rupert Murdoch publication. Thanks to the wonders of scrolling text there isn’t even a page 3.
It is flipping cold here in London though, and the hidden overlords who control the thermostat in our office have decided that absolute zero is an appropriate ambient temperature to work in. I might print this week’s news out and burn it to keep warm (making it the most useful Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You ever?).
Enough prattling, here’s this week’s news…
A lot of strange things have come out of America over the years. Pop tarts, George W Bush, the word ‘zucchini’, half of me; the list goes on… But today in America is National Nothing Day, a day which is celebrated by doing nothing. This sounds like a very interesting concept, and one we should try out here. Let’s all spend the rest of the day doing absolutely nothing. It’s Friday, you’ve earned the rest!
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