Social enterprise initiative lacks direction, experts say

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector, 25 June 2008

The Government-funded initiative to raise the profile of social enterprise is unfocused and lacks direction, according to several of the 33 experts appointed to act as social enterprise ambassadors under the scheme.

The idea of appointing ambassadors to tell their stories at high-level events and in the media was set out in the Office of the Third Sector's social enterprise action plan in November 2006. After a meeting last week to discuss the initiative, one ambassador, who asked not to be named,...