What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a well-intentioned question sparking many ideas and pictures of the future. It’s often presented to children early on by a parent or teacher, and becomes a guiding force for decisions around course electives,...
The Sewing Rooms, a social enterprise based in Lancashire in the north of England, is running a programme of community sewing projects specifically for isolated and vulnerable women over the age of 50. Registered as a community interest company, The Sewing Rooms has...
Furniture Bank, a charity and social enterprise on a mission to ensure all Canadians have the dignity of a furnished home, was founded in 1998. In the 18 years since, it has grown from serving a few hundred people each year to being on track to create homes for over...
SEE Change is continuously impressed with the brave, impassioned men and women who go out on their own in pursuit of social and environmental change. And we try our best to empower them, the only way we truly can – by helping them tell their story. We asked one...
I have a confession – I love dirt. This stems from growing up on a potato farm; I can close my eyes and bring myself back to my childhood where my father would come home from work and give me a big hug, smelling like nothing other than rich, wonderful dirt. Apart from...
Social entrepreneurship is often hailed for its ability to hijack the system, so to speak; a social enterprise gives us a new approach to our way of life and the chance to reform it. Yet, its uncharted nature can prove its greatest difficulty. This conundrum faced...
