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We had been working with Harry Specters for three weeks, on the Cambridge HUB Social Innovation Programme, when I first came to visit. Meeting and speaking with Shaz, Rohan, Darius, Rachel and Aston was pretty eye-opening. Most importantly, from observing...

  Recently, an MBA student asked us a simple question as part of his project. “Why do more companies not employ people with autism?” The question is obviously one for other companies to answer, but we couldn’t just say “ask...

It is difficult to be a social enterprise because you are in the middle of a business and a charity. The challenge is to keep the balance between your business and social change activities. This challenge intensifies when market winds...

According to a research (June 2014) conducted by London School of Economics, “Autism is the most costly medical condition in the UK. It costs more than heart disease (£8bn), cancer (£12bn) and stroke (£5bn) combined. Autism costs the country at...

It is customers that bring a social change. Neither customers nor social enterprises realise this. The lack of this fundamental understanding by social entrepreneurs is the single largest barrier to the growth of social enterprises.    Typically, a social enterprise...