Published 2001 (ISBN 1 902488 18 0) Price £9.95
A seminar held on 21st July 1999 – the last of a series of three seminars on the New Entrepreneurs. The seminar was opened by Stephen Timms MP, who expressed the Government’s commitment to social entrepreneurship. Norma Redfern, head of West Walker Primary School in Newcastle, described how a failing school was turned, with the support of parents, into a thriving centre of community activity. Father Myles Kavanagh talked about the work of the Flax Trust in the Ardoyne district of Belfast. Charles Leadbeater discussed ways of promoting civic entrepreneurship within the public sector.