Twelve years ago, Community Housing Cymru set up an Award scheme to recognise housing innovation in memory of a special person - Pat Chown. Pat gave a big part of her life to helping others and spent much of her working life in helping to meet people's housing needs in Wales.
Gwynedd-based horticulture, catering and joinery social enterprise tells us what makes the business a success, and about its plans to grow the organisation further.
Welsh social enterprise in the media - round-up
Date: 04.06.2011
Check out the latest news and blogs featuring Welsh social entrepreneurs. From Sharon Rouse, CEO of Morphious in Merthyr being named one of Britain's female entrepreneurship ambassadors, to environmental social entrepreneur Andy Middleton speaking at Back to Business Week, this week, and more...
Social entrepreneur Andy Middleton will be speaking at the Back to Business week, which takes place at venues across Monmouthshire this week. See more.
Last week, the Guardian Housing Network blog featured some of the best ideas of how Housing Associations can tackle unemployment. Steve Jones, chief executive of Tai Ceredigion and board member of the National Business Unit for the Chartered Institute of Housing Cymru, was featured. See here.
Several fantastic examples of Welsh social entrepreneurs have reached the final of the Inspire Wales awards. Read more here.
Sharon Rouse, CEO of Merthyr Tydfil-based Morphious, has been named as one of Britain’s female entrepreneurship ambassadors by Real Business magazine. The social enterprise works with disadvantaged, hard-to-reach and marginalised client groups across South Wales to help them move from economic inactivity and enable them to contribute to society. Read more.
Wales Online has profiled Llangattock Green Valleys scheme, led by father of three Michael Butterfield. The community aims for the village to be carbon neutral by 2015. Read More.
The Manchester Evening News Inspiring Women awards have recognised three young women who set up a charity shop selling crafts to support homeless people. All three have previously been homeless. See more.
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