Sector star demands action on identity

[MJR]

And in other moves, an email from RISE today reported that their Chief Exec Lucy Findlay is going to be Chief Exec of the anti-social Social Enterprise Mark company, while in a clear gamekeeper-turns-poacher move, RISE Chair Julie Harris becomes its Chief Exec.

The controllers are spreading, but it's not really a surprise that a controller is taking the helm of the SEMco. It's not a post which would attract anyone else.

[adrian.ashton]

Co-operative enterprises are extremely varied in their basis for membership, forms and structures, but all share a common global basis of shared values and principles to unite them.

To help reduce confusion about what type of co-operative they are, they group and identify themselves into a number of types, with each being based on their primary focus (type of member) – worker, housing, community, credit, consumer, ...

Maybe that’s a trick which the wider social enterprise movement might look to adopt in helping to reduce the ongoing confusion about what it is. Perhaps the basis for such ‘sub-grouping’ would be on their primary market or beneficiary, so we’d see ‘employment social enterprises’, ‘training social enterprises’, ‘health care social enterprises’, maybe even ‘co-operative social enterprises’?



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