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I was being interviewed for a magazine article and one of the questions asked was, “what five things make a great chocolate?" As our business specialises in filled chocolates, this was the perfect question. However, a chocolatier has many considerations...

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...

    We have been in this business for nearly a decade, and throughout this time we've had the opportunity to work with many young autistic people - not only in giving them paid work experience and employment, but also...

  Being a social enterprise is no easy feat; you exist in the space between business and charity, constantly working to maintain the balance between commercial success and meaningful social change. This challenge sharpens whenever market pressures pull you in...

    According to research conducted by the London School of Economics (June 2014), autism has a greater economic impact in the UK than heart disease (£8bn), cancer (£12bn) and stroke (£5bn) combined - totalling at least £32 billion per...

  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...