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Case Study: From business to social enterprise - with a little help from a housing association
By Jo Barrett, Third Sector, 2 May 2007
Thorpete started life as a small, family-run business offering gas maintenance services to local communities in the East Midlands. Founded by Pete Thorp, a former British Gas engineer who was made redundant in the mid 1990s, the company was never conceived as a social enterprise.
The Process Within six months of its founding, Thorpete was bought by the Trees group, one of the largest social enterprise groups in the region, who converted it into a social enterprise. The approach from Trees (which stands for ‘Training, Regeneration, Education, Employment, Sustainability Services’) came at an opportune moment...
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