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Time out to reflect on social enterprise

3 mins read The Early Years Blog

I am not always great at taking my own advice, which in this case is to take a few days away from the office to "think".

I have just had that thinking time in Manchester with social enterprise leaders as part of our membership of E3M.

Like all good training courses, there was a facilitator who needed to be flexible because as the conversation started to flow the topics started to shift and the real needs of the members emerged. There are always consistencies in lives of Social Enterprise leaders. Here are those familiar ones:

We also had the benefit of a speaker from the two Co-op Campaigns; one on modern slavery and the other on loneliness. Did you know that the group who suffer most from loneliness is new mothers? Did you know that loneliness has the same impact on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes? Tell that to all the politicians who are closing children centres.

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