Posts Tagged ‘Australia study trip’

Australia study trip ends – holiday begins

Posted by on October 18th, 2009 1 Comment

Well I’ve said goodbye to the ‘Scottish mob’ an apparent term of affection for a group of friendly folk out here in Western Australia. The emotional farewell was at Broome Airport as they set off on their 2 day journey home and I started five days of leave and a follow up on a couple…

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Last days in Melbourne

Posted by on October 10th, 2009 No Comments

Fantastic two days of study visits. Spent some time yesterday morning at a Bonsai tree nursery on the outskirts of Melbourne. Really interesting social firm – operating a well organised commercial wholesale operation that provides employment for a large group of people, with over half people with mental illness and/or learning disabilities.
The scale of…

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Update from the World Social Enterprise Forum

Posted by on October 8th, 2009 No Comments

Day one was a day of scene setting and big picture discussion about the role for Social Enterprise in a post ‘GFC’ (Global Financial Crisis) world.
Throughout today (day 2) I have been exploring investment models and share ownership ideas connected to Community Interest Companies (CIC’s). As often seems the case – its has been…

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News from Gwilym down under

Posted by on October 6th, 2009 2 Comments

Well, here is my first post from Melbourne. I think I should start with the two most important things, what the weather is like and what ‘social enterprise’ is for the unenlightened.
It’s raining and about 14 degrees. In fact it raining quite hard and Melbourne has had more rain in the past 24hrs than…

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Chair of Shetland Arts response to Shetland Times Editorial

Posted by on October 2nd, 2009 No Comments

Dear Editor,
In response to your editorial piece in today’s paper. Our board of trustees are tasked with becoming less reliant on our local and national funding bodies. We already attract substantial funding into Shetland to deliver arts events and educational programmes. We need to get better at this and look at ways of making…

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