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Craig Dearden-Phillips: April 2012
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Straight-talk on our times by one of the UK's best-known social entrepreneurs. Saturday, April 21, 2012. Why Middle Age is Good and Bad for You. I have spent the last couple of days reading 'A Shed Of One's Own' by Marcus Berkmann, a personal meditation on mid-life which, even at 43, I found worryingly resonant. Chapters such as 'Crumbling', 'Scythe', 'Pedant' and 'Money', in which looming decline is wittily detailed brought to the fore my suppressed awareness that the Only Way is Down. Links to this post.
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Craig Dearden-Phillips: Why Social Enterprise is the Future in Public Services
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Straight-talk on our times by one of the UK's best-known social entrepreneurs. Saturday, March 23, 2013. Why Social Enterprise is the Future in Public Services. So what's so special about social enterprise? If this sounds like a counsel-of-despair, it isn't. I am actually very optimistic about the future. Things are now happening in public services that are showing the way. This is being accelerated by the financial crisis in the public sector which is going to last well into the 2020s as the...Local Gov...
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Craig Dearden-Phillips: March 2012
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Straight-talk on our times by one of the UK's best-known social entrepreneurs. Saturday, March 31, 2012. Why you can be for-profit - and for good. One of the things that people in social enterprise go on about most is about reinvesting the profit in the mission- and this being the differentiator between social and ordinary business. I don't think so. When I founded my latest venture, Stepping Out, I decided to approach the question of mission differently - through a profit-making company. We do h...But w...
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Craig Dearden-Phillips: March 2013
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Straight-talk on our times by one of the UK's best-known social entrepreneurs. Sunday, March 31, 2013. Why are most social entrepreneurs very young or very old? Have you ever noticed that most social entrepreneurs are either very young or relatively old? Not that many in the middle (say 35-50)? I speak, of course, with myself in mind. From the age of 25 I led, from scratch, a social enterprise that, by my late 30s the best part of 200 people and turned over about £5m. Fortunately, I found some backing 18...
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Craig Dearden-Phillips: Is the Government 'playing at it' with public service mutuals?
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Straight-talk on our times by one of the UK's best-known social entrepreneurs. Thursday, September 20, 2012. Is the Government 'playing at it' with public service mutuals? This week the Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon Danczuk, launched a full-frontal on Cabinet Secretary Francis Maude, telling him that the Government is ‘just playing at it’ when it comes to Mutuals in public services. A firmer line on Mutuals: ‘This is an approach we stand behind as government’, would give assurance to people w...In August...
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Craig Dearden-Phillips: April 2013
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Straight-talk on our times by one of the UK's best-known social entrepreneurs. Saturday, April 20, 2013. True Enemies - or Necessary Allies? Unions and Social Enterprise. This week 'Union News' published a story about a flagship social enterprise spin-out called Care Plus which operates health and social care services in NE Lincs. The story highlighted the possibility that staff recently transferred out the NHS and Council might be made redundant and re-hired by Care Plus on new contracts. There is a som...
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Craig Dearden-Phillips: Is local government ever going to embrace social enterprise?
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Straight-talk on our times by one of the UK's best-known social entrepreneurs. Monday, April 8, 2013. Is local government ever going to embrace social enterprise? Will there be some kind of tipping point for social enterprise in UK local government? So far we are in the Innovator / Early Adapter stage with many watching to see what happens in the first wave. But my view, which is of course not a disinterested one, is that we will get there. 1 THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. Faced with this scale of challenge, Coun...
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Craig Dearden-Phillips: True Enemies - or Necessary Allies? Unions and Social Enterprise
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Straight-talk on our times by one of the UK's best-known social entrepreneurs. Saturday, April 20, 2013. True Enemies - or Necessary Allies? Unions and Social Enterprise. This week 'Union News' published a story about a flagship social enterprise spin-out called Care Plus which operates health and social care services in NE Lincs. The story highlighted the possibility that staff recently transferred out the NHS and Council might be made redundant and re-hired by Care Plus on new contracts. There is a som...
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Craig Dearden-Phillips: Where is the mutuals agenda NOW?
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Straight-talk on our times by one of the UK's best-known social entrepreneurs. Tuesday, September 11, 2012. Where is the mutuals agenda NOW? So where is the mutuals agenda today? Last week I heard a trio of speakers, each offering a perspective, among them historian Charlie Cattell, Ian Hasdell of the Employee Ownership Association and Lance Gardner of Care Plus. Will mutuals enjoy continued support from the centre or go the same way as the Green agenda, hug-a-hoodie and Big Society? On October 25, Easts...
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Craig Dearden-Phillips: Why we need a National Talent Programme
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Straight-talk on our times by one of the UK's best-known social entrepreneurs. Sunday, September 2, 2012. Why we need a National Talent Programme. So far so well-known already. What we don't know is how we deal with this as a society. Secretly, most politicians see this problem as un-solvable - the by-product of wider forces beyond anyone's control. All the focus goes on how this underclass group is prevented from impinging too much on the lives of everyone else. So do we open lots of new Grammers? In Au...
