The Royal Bank of Scotland Group has today announced the winners of their first successful enterprise competition held in partnership with MyKindaCrowd. The competition was split into two categories, under 18s and over 18s, and was a huge success …
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Patient Choice in the RSA – The Big idea: a new type of healthcare company
Patient choice is an award-winning social enterprise and the brainchild of RSA Fellow, Neil Basil. It is a new kind of healthcare company, designed to disrupt an old fashioned and monopolised market by providing an impartial and transparent prescr…
Read moreHow social enterprises can succeed as businesses – Patients Know Best, MyChoicePad and Patient Choice in the Guardian
Ten years ago this month I listened to the chief executive of a US non-profit recount the first lesson his boss had taught him: “We are not-for-profit, and that means we are not for loss.” In other words, you cannot deliver the social good you wan…
Read moreHow social enterprise can help reduce re-offending – Blue Sky featured in Guardian Social Enterprise Network
The UK prison population has soared to more than 85,000, with 20,000 prisoners discharged in the quarter ending June 2012 alone. Around 60% of offenders re-offend within two years of release. What is being done to reduce these rates? Alongside pub…
Read moreSpacehive on Sky News launching crowdfunding campaign to save high streets
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Read moreMyChoicePad in Small Business Trends: The Exciting Field of EduTech -Rife With Innovation
For years, I have patiently waited for innovation in educational technologies, otherwise known as edu tech. For a variety of reasons, the field simply didn???t take off in the last two decades. But this decade, I think, it is showing signs of a re…
Read moreBeyond Youth Secure New Big Lottery Funds
We are once again very grateful to Big Lottery Fund for their amazing support for the work of Beyond Youth. We have been awarded a new Lottery contract to expand our innovative social franchise model. We will roll out the model across 6 female pri…
Read morePatients Know Best in the Guardian: Better access to patient records is essential to make the NHS a safer place
Two weeks ago one of our patients, a 59-year-old woman with a diagnosis of vascular dementia and epilepsy, living alone with the daily support of carers, had been treated in hospital after an apparent fall. She was back home, but required further …
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