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Message to all you social entrepreneurs out there!

The Melting Pot in Edinburgh is having open day events! 10 June 2008 and 10 July 2008 from 9am till 9pm.

You could pop in and work from the melting pot for a day or pop in and have a look around.

Are you:

• Self employed and missing a sense of structure within your working life?
• Looking to benefit from improving your network of like minded contacts?
• Looking for a socially aware space to use for meetings and events?
• Aiming to broaden your horizons and get exposure for your ideas?
• Looking for a professional space in the city centre location within Edinburgh?
• Looking for a green or eco space to work out of to compliment your business or enterprise?

If you answer yes to any of the above you should head along to the open day at The Melting Pot and find out more about what is going on…

Contact Information for: The Melting Pot

5 Rose Street,

Edinburgh,

Scotland.

EH2 2PR

Telephone: 0131 243 2626

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New Statesmen Magazine - On social enterprise and the voluntary sector.

Last night I had the opportunity to attend the Edge Upstarts Event in Edinburgh, with speakers including Brian Tannerhill MBE - Chief Executive of the McSence Group and John Swinney MSP Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth.

The main question to the floor of speakers was simply ‘where do charities and social enterprises differ and what are the similarities?’, but the discussion seemed to go in circles a bit and focused more on the definition of what a social enterprise ’should look and act like’.

I am glad that I attended the event held in the Grape (function room) in St Andrews Square Edinburgh and I did get some learning from going along.

I can’t help but wonder exactly why I was there, I have had a keen interest in social enterprise for about 5 years and I have had experience of small business and enterprise projects since I was about 16 years old, but I could not help but feel that I did not fit in, that I was not quite expected to be there.

It was strange, I was asked by a number of people ‘how did you get an invite?’ and ‘what are you doing here?’ as though I should not be in a room with the ‘elite’… but deep down I dont really care (well just a bit) as it is all part of the old thing about learning to deal with all kinds of people and deal with rejection.

I am sure many young euntreprenuers out there have experinced the same thing, the advice that I would give anyone who is just starting out, go for it, unless it is a waste of your time and taking you away from your desired goals and dreams… go for it!

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