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- CIC Association The fastest growing movement for social enterprise in Britain
- Community Interest Companies The structure of social enterprise
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- Social Enterprise Coalition National body for Social Enterprise
- unLtd Facebook for social entrepreneurs and people who want to change the world
Sound blogs and websites
- Chris Horkan Manchester-based journalist and web developer
- Fair to agency workers The North West TUC campaign run by Sound Communication
- Mancubist Chris Horkan’s blog about all things Manchester
- OH Digital Web development Manchester
- Proud to serve the public The North West TUC campaign to protect and promote public services
Sound clients
- Business Support Solutions Marketing on the web workshops
- 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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Corporate Social Responsibility (Sound behaviour) Archive
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IN DEFENCE OF ‘BIG GOVERNMENT’…
Posted on October 19, 2010 | No CommentsDAVID Cameron has been quick to condemn ‘Big Government’ as part of the justification for his notion of the ‘Big Society’. And others have not been slow to ape his view, notably bosses at Third Sector and the Local Government Chronicle. They came up with... -
THE COALITION GOVERNMENT’S NHS REFORMS: CAN SOCIAL ENTERPRISES FILL THE GAP?
Posted on July 13, 2010 | No CommentsTHE new Coalition Government’s plans for a radical shake-up of the NHS pose real challenges for social enterprises, such as Sound Communication. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley claims the Con/Dem changes are aimed at giving GPs more power and control over the funding of patient care.... -
Ethical spending grows – but slowly
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsCONSUMER 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 from £13.5 billion in 1999 to £36 billion ten years later. Recommend on Facebook Share... -
The BBC blunders over George Alagiah and the Fairtrade Foundation
Posted on August 5, 2009 | No CommentsIS 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 the Beeb thought there would be some conflict of interest because Alagiah, who is unpaid... -
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... -
A PR company acting ethically?
Posted on June 24, 2008 | No CommentsONE of the world’s biggest advertising agencies is trying to sell its stake in a Zimbabwe company masterminding the re-election of President Robert Mugabe. WPP, which owns a huge raft of global Public Relations companies including Burson-Marsteller, Cohn & Wolfe, GCI, Hill & Knowlton and... -
Partnerships: Blair’s post-Iraq advice – and a social enterprise is taken over…
Posted on June 18, 2008 | No CommentsTWO interesting developments in the Third Sector – the space between public and private organisations. First, former Prime Minister Tony Blair hands out some advice to other Third Sector organisations as a result of his involvement in charity work. Blair’s out-of-government office has now set... -
Direct aid to Burma (Myanmar) – is Google a force for good? (Part 2)
Posted on May 11, 2008 | No CommentsGoogle has done it again. The web giant has today started to accept donations to aid the relief effort in cyclone-hit Burma. Google has created a special web page to channel on-line donations direct to Unicef and Direct Relief International. It has also pledged to...