November « 2011 « The Foundation East Blog

Social Return On Investment

‘It’s a Profit Jim, but not as we know it’

The paraphrasing of Mr. Spock’s immortal words is very applicable to a recent survey that has just been completed on the services provided by Foundation East. Since 2004 this not for profit organisation has been providing business loans of up to £50,000 for existing [...]

It’s all in the family

As the daughter of a farmer, it seemed the most natural thing for my brother and I to contribute to the running of our busy arable and livestock farm from an early age. Our summer holidays were the busiest time of the year helping with harvest. Mealtimes were always an opportunity to discuss [...]

Community Glue

Over the last couple of years there has been lots of talk about Communities “doing it for themselves” The government’s Big Society agenda and the Localism Bill have sought to tap into a feeling by many people in both rural and urban communities that if they want to see their communities thrive in the [...]

The You.S.P

How many times are you asked, what’s your Unique Selling Point? Bankers and Investors will ask you, Marketeers and PR Consultants will ask you – some may even help you search for it! But when you really analyse it – is there such a thing as a Unique Selling Point?

Unique – The only [...]

You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone

In her song “Big Yellow Taxi” Joni Mitchell was not thinking of Business Link when she sang “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” but the words currently seem significantly appropriate as we see the reformation of BusinessLink into an online and telephone service with the scrapping of government funded face to [...]