Tag: Guest post
![ClearlySo and raising capital for social enterprises ClearlySo and raising capital for social enterprises](http://reconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2013-05-28-at-15.45.05-319x198.png)
Simon Evill is social business manager for ClearlySo, the gatekeeper to its capital raising services and consultant to new members. Here he gives a timely review of ClearlySo’s activities in the social enterprise sector and delivers some useful advice to social entrepreneurs looking for investment to scale up. ClearlySo is a financial intermediary […]
![Top 40 Platforms for Crowdfunding Social Change Top 40 Platforms for Crowdfunding Social Change](http://reconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/top_40_platforms_for_crowdfunding_social_change-352x198.jpg)
This post is a guest blog by Josef Davies-Coates and it originally appeared on the P2P Foundation blog. Crowdfunding is a new word for an old idea. The Oxford English dictionary defines it as “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, […]
![Have local currencies got it wrong? Have local currencies got it wrong?](http://reconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Screen-shot-2012-07-25-at-11.29.46-352x198.png)
Guest Post by Simon Carter who’s working with Transition in Tewkesbury Here in Tewkesbury I am very keen to introduce an alternative currency, but upon reflection I have no desire to name it the Tewkesbury Pound in the tradition of the Totnes Pound, the Stroud, Lewes or Brixton Pound & very soon now the Bristol […]
![Transition Durham, REconomy and me Transition Durham, REconomy and me](http://reconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/td7-352x198.png)
Why is this a personal Transition Journey? Well it’s easy to recall when, where and why this started – in June 2010 at Alington House in Durham I attended a Co-operative UK event which incorporated a workshop called ‘Plan Bee’, where I would be able to learn more about keeping my own bees… however as […]
![Time to go it ‘together’ with Transition Town Lewes Time to go it ‘together’ with Transition Town Lewes](http://reconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/1TTLLogo.jpg)
From Juliet at the Enterprise Group, Transition Town Lewes… Is the depth of a recession a bad time to ask people to think about creating sustainable enterprise – or is it a truly inspired time to encourage people to think about building their own resilient livelihoods? With national employment remaining stagnant – and youth […]
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