by Eamon Ryan | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog
All social enterprise has an element of change at its heart. But change can come in different ways. The root of change is a desire to “right the wrong”, “give voice to the voiceless”, “to do good” in some way for society as a whole. Those that advocate and desire such...
by Eamon Ryan | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog
As we reflect on the end of our first BNest programme we have absorbed several important lessons. Probably the chief of those is that in social, much more than in commercial, there are two parallel journeys – the enterprise journey and the personal journey. While much...
by Eamon Ryan | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog
Press Release, 30 March 2017 BNest 2016/2017 Programme Showcase BNest, the first dedicated Social Enterprise Incubator Programme in Ireland, being run in partnership with Nexus Innovation Centre UL, held a showcase event last Friday (24th) for its 2016/2017...
by Eamon Ryan | Mar 10, 2017 | Blog
by Bridget Kelly, founder of ADD Mid-West Support Group I learned so much… I would class my local Credit Union as a Social Enterprise. I was involved as a volunteer in my Credit Union for many years. The amount of training available at no personal cost except...
by Eamon Ryan | Jan 11, 2017 | Blog
by Suzanne Roche, founder of Limerick Gateway to Education Rewarding and challenging My journey regarding setting up within the charity sector as a social entrepreneur has been rewarding and challenging. Back in 2012 it was very much an all systems go for social...
by Eamon Ryan | Jan 9, 2017 | Blog
by Liam Fleming, founder of Siul Eile, Walking Programmes Personally rewarding Being part of the social enterprise space in Ireland is personally rewarding although there is also definite frustration at how social enterprise is rolled out in Ireland. Being a volunteer...
