Edge Upstarts
About Edge Upstarts
Edge Upstarts is designed to encourage and promote social entrepreneurs. Especially those who pass on practical skills and social values to their employees, providing innovative and sustainable solution to social problems. A collaboration between Edge, a charity campaigning for practical learning, and the New Statesman, Edge Upstarts is a unique forum through which to discuss ideas, policies, and the impact of practical learning and social enterprise.
The Edge Upstarts programme involves a series of events, roundtables and the Edge Upstarts Awards.
There are at least 55,000 social enterprises in the UK generating £27 billion a year. These dynamic enterprises with a social purpose invigorate the UK economy and challenge the traditional role of companies as profit-driven ventures. Social enterprises foster the development of innovative business practices including vocational training, enterprise structures, creative revenue solutions and co-operative ownership models.
As well as being visionaries and business leaders, social entrepreneurs are employers. They are educators and mentors who pass on practical skills and social values to their employees. The main beneficiaries of social enterprises are the socially excluded. Typically the long term unemployed, people with disabilities, the elderly, people on low incomes and children or young people.
Contact
Please direct all inquiries regarding Edge Upstarts to Charlotte Eisenhart, upstarts@newstatesman.co.ukNew Statesman
52 Grosvenor Gardens,
London,
SW1W 0AU
Tel: 020 7881 5649
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Launch Party
The 2008 Edge Upstarts Awards launch party will take place on 4th March. Join us at this evening event to celebrate the eighth year of these prestigious awards. More information
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