Articles in Oceania

Jonathan Bland of the Social Enterprise Coalition said the Coalition had hosted visits or dealt with inquiries from more than 30 different countries over the past few years and said “the essence of social enterprise is the same” across the world, “it’s about empowerment — using the power of the market for social good”.


THERE is myth and there is reality. One of the secrets of a happy life is not to confuse the two. It is a lesson that one trade union should have learnt before it committed itself to kicking social enterprises in the shin. The particular myth to which I refer is that the running of welfare-to-work programmes will be handed over by the Government to charities and social enterprises to run. As with many myths, it is difficult to establish where it originated.

JUST one year after its launch, this website is going from strength to strength and fast becoming the number one choice for Co-op people everywhere who want to to stay in touch with what's happening in the UK Movement. The latest figures show that an average of 350 people visited the Co-operative News's site every day last month. A record 10,800 unique sessions were logged with each user viewing around ten pages and, while the majority of the visitors were UK-based, the site is also ...