Andrew Beattie for Spring I’ve spent the large part of my career working for myself now. The first couple of years of that, literally working on my own with very little other human contact, were some of the loneliest of my life. I was just getting started and I sat…

Tell us about Can Cook… We started with a community café, asking it it could work, and could it make money? The answer was no, quickly. But, as part of that, we realised that people couldn’t cook. They’d ask us how you make salmon and noodles. That was our first lesson — the difference cookery…

It took me years to really understand my own purpose and the purpose of my work. It only really landed with me a few years back whilst sat at the back of a workshop we’d helped to facilitate in The Sandon, a pub a short walk from the hallowed turf…

By Luca Sabia for Ethos magazine: issue 15| October 2021 Crowdfunding is the perfect medium to start building an audience, proving a concept and carry out your market research — and that’s before you even get to the money, says Luca Sabia. Here’s how… Money and people. According to business…

Nathalie Molina Niño is the CEO of BRAVA Investments and the author of LEAPFROG, The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs. A technologist and coder by trade, she helps women make an impact in the world of work. Andrew Beattie caught up with her to find out more… Tell us about the work that you do, and who you do it for. I’m the CEO…

Kate Raworth is an economist known for her work on the ‘doughnut economy’, in which she balances the economic benefits of meeting basic human needs, with planetary boundaries. Having spent decades working with the UN and Oxfam, Raworth now works as a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford…

In this edition of Fresh Ideas Free Thinking we spoke to Brazilian social entrepreneur, Renato Orozco. Founder of Nossa Cidade, a social enterprise which improves the quality of life for the communities it works with; Orozco is also a trustee of the Minas Gerais chapter of the Awesome Foundation. What do you do? I…

Last month, we went to The Good Business Festival and at each session, the speakers were invited to share a positive action for the audience to take away. …

What do you do? I’m the co-founder of ethical fashion brand Little Lotus Boutique and founder of the world’s first support network for ethical businesses and bloggers — #EthicalHour. I work in marketing and mentor young entrepreneurs. In June I was looking for new ways to promote Little Lotus Boutique…