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Sharing our way to prosperity (Part 1)

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06 Aug 2013

Jonathan Schifferes

Sharing is popular again. It’s been 25 years since Harry Enfield mocked 1980s greed and individualism as his Loadsamoney character – a cockney plasterer. Now, a quick and exciting route to riches is promised by the sharing economy. Airbnb, its posterchild, is worth $2.5bn (£1.5bn) and Silicon Valley is buzzing again. Does sharing represent a scalable opportunity for a socially productive economy? This blog grounds the sharing economy in some context, and is followed by Part 2, analysing of who profits from sharing.

The Big Idea: surplus food to those who need it

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15 Jul 2013

Maria Ana Neves FRSA helps to run Plan Zheroes, a citizen-led food intitative saving food that would normally be wasted.  She blogs here about the initiative:

Bristol Story Lab: providing story writing workshops for young people in Bristol

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09 Jul 2013

This is a guest blog by Bristol Story Lab, who received funding from RSA Catalyst earlier this year.  Jon Kennard FRSA is one of the key people behind the Bristol Story Lab.

Barry Ideas Bank part 2: Lessons and Goals

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05 Jul 2013

How we are learning from and building Barry Ideas Bank

RSA Fellows: bound by a common desire for change

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28 Jun 2013

Alexandra Barker

As a newly appointed Fellowship Development Coordinator, one of the first questions I asked my colleagues from the outset was… so what is the average Fellow like? Of course, I soon discovered that amongst the 27,000, there is no such thing as an average Fellow. The Fellowship is made up of a diverse collection of people who are united by the desire to build a better society.

Fellowship Partnerships – we’re scaling up to help further our charitable mission

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11 Jun 2013

It’s been a while since my last blog post, and it’s been a busy 6 months for the Partnerships team!

Ideas in Barry Part 1

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10 Jun 2013

Vivs Long-Ferguson

Guest blog from Catalyst Award winner, Andy Green FRSA

Beyond the spin: Public service mutuals and social productivity

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03 Jun 2013

Paul Buddery

The RSA 2020 Public Services has a vision for public services that we call ‘social productivity’. Boiled down, it rests on three key propositions:

Social investment: inside out

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31 May 2013

This is a guest blog by Servane Mouazan FRSA, founder and Director at OGUNTE, an organisation that helps women social entrepreneurs to make a positive impact on people and planet by enabling them to learn, lead and connect. They do this through: stakeholder connections and introductions; executive coaching; angels training; leadership seminars and award programmes.