Adrian Ashton

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After reading business in Cambridge, I worked with one of the top 100 PR consultancies in the UK before taking on various management roles within a wide variety of social enterprises, community organisations and more ‘traditional’ enterprise support bodies. These experiences enabled me to ‘turn around’ an ailing specialist social enterprise support agency into a nationally recognised body and gained me recognition as an authority on social enterprises from local, regional and national organisations including the DTI and Bank of England. I have used this position, along with my knowledge of the changing environment ...

social enterprise co-operatives co-ops social impact governance networking social value social responsibility finance start-up social entrpreneur social finance charity marmite university enterprise csr public services co-op entrepreneur greenwashing esg evaluation benchmarking collaboration failure fsb partnership working antz professional consultant coronavirus civil society mutualaid mutual aid flooding floods covid-19 faith workplace workplace values values replication growth strategies social franchising franchising adrian ashton todmorden social media strategy pitching bootstrap startup community project medeival guilds history crowdfunding curriculum school education academies pedagogy innovation social investment housing cohousing legal structures community interest company multi-stakeholder membership social capital employability careers self-employment profitable small business fundraising investment mutuals organizational culture coops creative industries big society health externalisation social accounting football homeless workspace incubators problems

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banana skins for social enterprise

13 years ago • 334 Views

models of incubators and workspace for homeless entrepreneurs

13 years ago • 753 Views

The social value of football

13 years ago • 415 Views

governance in social enterprise

13 years ago • 720 Views

co-ops delivering public services in the Big Society

13 years ago • 384 Views

Creative coops 9 march 2011

13 years ago • 388 Views

Integrating services – the context for policies

12 years ago • 297 Views

opportunities and threats for co-ops and social enterprises delivering public services

12 years ago • 2333 Views

Financing socent mmu guest lecture nov 2011

12 years ago • 635 Views

financing small business growth

12 years ago • 750 Views

Valuing impact for competitive advantage

10 years ago • 480 Views

Salford Enterprise Acadey 03.14 - should your enterprise be social as well as profitable

10 years ago • 744 Views

Why #startup is worth talking about for sports related University degree subjects

9 years ago • 478 Views

keeping members engaged in Multi-stakeholder co-ops - Fairshares keynote presentation July 2015

8 years ago • 423 Views

Unltd webinar legal forms 07.2015

8 years ago • 468 Views

innovation and new ideas for financing and investment in UK cohousing

8 years ago • 370 Views

Co operative schools - the untold revolution in education

8 years ago • 663 Views

Crowdfunding for charities - time to "follow the herd"?

7 years ago • 260 Views

Futures past – medieval guilds as early co ops

7 years ago • 291 Views

Tbn - adrian ashton introductory overview to social media april 17

6 years ago • 405 Views

reporting impact on a shoestring webinar - july 17

6 years ago • 809 Views

Co-ops and co-operation in the world today - july 18

5 years ago • 230 Views

intro to social franchising - Feb 2019

5 years ago • 291 Views

Value Driven Workplace - Business Colab, May 2019

4 years ago • 320 Views

These are not unprecedented times

3 years ago • 258 Views

Selnetworking nov 21

2 years ago • 214 Views

when university partnerships break down - FSB academia network

1 year ago • 38 Views

the perils of valuation in social impact.pptx

4 months ago • 4 Views

Social and Community Value of Football

Supporters Direct • 13 years ago

Is there a single, universal principle of facilitation?

Martin Gilbraith • 2 years ago

To Hell with Poverty

Citizen Network • 4 years ago

UK poverty 2017: Launch event re-cap

josephrowntreefoundation • 6 years ago

Renewable energy in the UK

Office for National Statistics • 6 years ago

12 Early Co-ops - a short history of cooperation and mutuality

Ed Mayo • 6 years ago

Almanac 2017: An introduction to the latest data on the voluntary sector

NCVO - National Council for Voluntary Organisations • 6 years ago

Mixpanel - Our pitch deck that we used to raise $65M

Suhail Doshi • 9 years ago

Making strategic planning work

NCVO - National Council for Voluntary Organisations • 8 years ago

Swk1048 introduction to community development and the migrant crisis

Tim Curtis • 8 years ago

Co-op Index: the tool's reliability for co-operative development.

Ryszard Stocki • 8 years ago

Managing and resisting degeneration in employee-owned business: a comparative study of two large retailers (John Lewis Partnership in UK and Eroski in Spain)

Imanol Basterretxea • 9 years ago

Npc scale

Nick Temple • 9 years ago

Story Board: The Collaborative Economy for Corporations (Official Slideshare Version)

Jeremiah Owyang • 10 years ago

Co-operative lifestyle - Invitation to come back to Rochdale

Ryszard Stocki • 9 years ago

21st century placemaking: visions, principles and challenges

Julian Dobson • 9 years ago

Financing your charity: how can social investment work for you?

NCVO - National Council for Voluntary Organisations • 9 years ago

Opportunities and challenges for volunteering

NCVO - National Council for Voluntary Organisations • 9 years ago

UK Civil Society Almanac 2014 launch

NCVO - National Council for Voluntary Organisations • 10 years ago

Social, Digital & Mobile Around The World (January 2014)

We Are Social Singapore • 10 years ago

Is graffiti anti- or pro-social?

Tim Curtis • 10 years ago

The 2015 Project: How can charities help to address our future economic and social challenges

NCVO - National Council for Voluntary Organisations • 10 years ago

Social value: from procurement to co-production

Julian Dobson • 11 years ago

Mutuals and public service delivery

Anglia Ruskin University • 11 years ago

Third sector leadership and management 1

Anglia Ruskin University • 11 years ago

Introduction to social impact assessment

Anglia Ruskin University • 11 years ago

UK Charitable Giving 2011

NCVO - National Council for Voluntary Organisations • 12 years ago

Six Habits of SOCIAL Entrepreneurs

Charles Tsai • 13 years ago

The Big Society - What would Shakespeare say?

Julian Dobson • 13 years ago

After reading business in Cambridge, I worked with one of the top 100 PR consultancies in the UK before taking on various management roles within a wide variety of social enterprises, community organisations and more ‘traditional’ enterprise support bodies. These experiences enabled me to ‘turn around’ an ailing specialist social enterprise support agency into a nationally recognised body and gained me recognition as an authority on social enterprises from local, regional and national organisations including the DTI and Bank of England. I have used this position, along with my knowledge of the changing environment ...

social enterprise co-operatives co-ops social impact governance networking social value social responsibility finance start-up social entrpreneur social finance charity marmite university enterprise csr public services co-op entrepreneur greenwashing esg evaluation benchmarking collaboration failure fsb partnership working antz professional consultant coronavirus civil society mutualaid mutual aid flooding floods covid-19 faith workplace workplace values values replication growth strategies social franchising franchising adrian ashton todmorden social media strategy pitching bootstrap startup community project medeival guilds history crowdfunding curriculum school education academies pedagogy innovation social investment housing cohousing legal structures community interest company multi-stakeholder membership social capital employability careers self-employment profitable small business fundraising investment mutuals organizational culture coops creative industries big society health externalisation social accounting football homeless workspace incubators problems

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