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Insight: The agony and ecstasy of social enterprise's boom

By Maria Clegg and Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 20 February 2007

When the Aspire Group catalogue company went bust in 2004, the negative headlines demonstrated that social enterprises are more open to criticism than traditional companies when things go wrong.

The Aspire Group was launched in Bristol in 1999, a classic social enterprise start-up designed to create jobs for homeless people. Most of those people came to Aspire with a history of drug or alcohol abuse problems, and were at a stage in their lives where they were ready to...

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