Case Study: From business to social enterprise - with a little help from a housing association

By Jo Barrett 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.

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