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- unLtd Facebook for social entrepreneurs and people who want to change the world
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- Community Health Action Partnership re-named Unlimited Potential
- Get ethical How to buy ethical goods
- Lancashire county council Sound Communication produced the county council’s Comprehensive Performance Assessment
- Manchester's Green Pound A discount voucher scheme to promote ethical trading and purchasing
- North West TUC Trade union movement in the North West of England
- Unlimited Potential Salford-based social enterprise providing health and care services to the local community
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Sound Stories
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Ethical spending grows – but slowly
CONSUMER spending on “ethical” goods has almost tripled in the last decade, according to the Co-op Bank. Their annual ethical consumerism report shows that ethical spending in Britain has grown... -
The crisis in local newspapers: public funding?
WHAT next for local newspapers struggling to cope with the impact of the internet and the loss of advertising revenue due to the recession? One answer comes from politicians in... -
Salford students get ‘social’ – and show their entrepreneurial flair!
STUDENTS from a Salford college came up with their own enterprising plans after being given a unique insight into social businesses. They developed a range of new ideas for social... -
The worst headline of the week…
SOUND Communication today proudly announces its (slightly intermittent) Annual Media Awards…. And already the nominations are flowing in. Step forward the Manchester Evening News, the first print publication to win... -
The Wire – Baltimore v Liverpool v Manchester…and not forgetting the media
SHADOW Home Secretary Chris Grayling has been rightly castigated for his intemperate remarks which compared Liverpool and Manchester with the American city of Baltimore depicted in TV’s cult series, The... -
The BBC blunders over George Alagiah and the Fairtrade Foundation
IS the BBC in favour of unfair trade? That’s the question after the Corporation forced newscaster George Alagiah to quit as patron of the Fairtrade Foundation, a registered charity. Seems...
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100 jobs axed as Liverpool Echo moves printing to Oldham
Posted on August 1, 2009 | No CommentsTHE presses will roll for the last time at the Liverpool Echo on Saturday morning as printing is transferred 40 miles outside the city, to Oldham. More than 100 jobs have been axed in the cost-cutting move by owners Trinity Mirror, which on Thursday announced... -
Victory for jobs and journalists!
Posted on July 28, 2009 | No CommentsCONGRATULATIONS to journalists at Trinity Mirror in the Midlands for averting threatened compulsory redundancies at their newspapers. The threat of a one-day strike by journalists this Thursday, seems to have brought Trinity bosses to their senses. The strike has now been called off after Trinity,... -
YouTube insight into corporate advertising
Posted on July 27, 2009 | No CommentsEVER wondered how the giant corporate Public Relations and advertising agencies win business? Now you can get a valuable comedy insight, courtesy of YouTube (or ‘MyTube’ as perhaps it should now become known). Congratulations to Jon Mason, aka Jollywise, for his hysterical take on the... -
It’s not the internet – its Balls!
Posted on July 2, 2009 | No CommentsA FASCINATING insight into the workings of Government is provided by the right-wing Spectator magazine in its blog ‘Coffee House’. It tells how Cabinet Minister Ed Balls, a close confidante of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, rang up the magazine’s political editor, Fraser Nelson, to complain... -
Salford’s Unlimited Potential first in North West to win Social Enterprise Mark
Posted on June 18, 2009 | 5 CommentsA SALFORD social enterprise has become the first in the North West to win the prestigious Social Enterprise Mark. The fair-trade style Mark has been awarded to Unlimited Potential, after it demonstrated that its work benefitted local people, rather than anonymous shareholders or owners. Profits... -
Blogging – a force for good
Posted on April 19, 2009 | No CommentsTHE fallout over the Damian McBride smear campaign continues apace – not least amongst the Labour Party’s online community. They are anxious not to panic and throw the baby (new media) out with the dirty bathwater (McBride’s smears) by suddenly rejecting the web-based campaigning epitomised... -
Does the Pope need a new spin doctor – or a new message on AIDS?
Posted on March 23, 2009 | No CommentsTHE Pope’s outburst about condoms and AIDS has understandably caused a firestorm of controversy. An online petition protesting at the Pontiff’s position has now been started by the excellent global campaigning organisation, Avaaz. It is clear about what Pope Benedict actually said about condoms on... -
When ‘no comment’ speaks volumes…
Posted on February 18, 2009 | No CommentsANY self-respecting journalist will shudder at the prospect of getting a terse ‘no comment’ from the subject of their latest exclusive. It’s bad for the reporter (s/he looks easily fobbed off); bad for the story (it looks unbalanced); and bad for the subject (s/he/it looks... -
How to turn away business – and still be successful…
Posted on February 2, 2009 | No CommentsBANKERS appear to have overtaken estate agents and journalists at the top of ‘Professions You Love To Hate’. The credit crunch, global economic crisis, rising unemployment and job insecurity have all combined to make the banker ‘Public Enemy Number One’. Although Prime Minister Gordon Brown appears... -
Is this the death of local newspapers?
Posted on January 18, 2009 | No CommentsLOCAL newspapers have become amongst the first victims of the global recession with major job losses, pay freezes and closures announced. Some commmentators are already predicting that the future for local papers is bleak, almost terminal, as they are hit both by the economic downturn and the...