I recently heard the designer Thomas Heatherwick talk about his ongoing project to “humanise” our physical environment. The event was under the Chatham House rule, but I don’t think it
Cities are not made by housing alone. Nor, even, by the cafes and retail units and light garnish of landscape that tend to come with speculative residential developments. They also
Good beer, said Thomas Jefferson, “softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health”.It may also be a potential tool for helping solve the crisis in British prisons. A craft
My husband, Tim Joss, who has died aged 68 in a cycling accident, was a social entrepreneur and chief executive and founder of Arts Enterprise With a Social Purpose (Aesop).
In 1981, on the same night as riots were breaking out in Brixton, the community leader Leonard Johnson, faced with a crowd of angry young people on one side and
A social enterprise has launched offering people between the ages of 18 and 29 the chance to protect the seas around the UK while getting paid.The Sea Ranger Service (SRS)
There is a crying need, as you argue in your editorial, for much more creative thinking about how to develop our stations as “social hubs” in the wake of the government’s
In the back corner of a council estate in south London once occupied by dingy rows of lock-up garages next to a playground, there now stands a gleaming white brick
An enormous art nouveau greenhouse rises from the Meudon forest, its front made entirely of glass. Inside, suspended from the ceiling, is a 21-metre-long shiny, inflatable zeppelin, which looks as
‘Who wants to learn how to make jam?” Shanelle Webb calls out after the children have finished eating tacos. The energetic hula-hooping, Christmas wreath-making, dancing and playing with fidget toys
“They are absolutely food of the gods,” said Andy Haddon after a few minutes eulogising about the simplicity, slight chewiness and fabulous taste of the stottie, the round flat loaf
My friend Tony Flower, who has died aged 71 of cancer, was a social entrepreneur and writer, and a maker of musical instruments, models and charities.For 20 years he worked
When she first came to Britain as a refugee from Nigeria six years ago, Kemi had a three-month-old daughter, a room in a shared house and £5.39 to survive on
A social enterprise that donates booking fees from tickets for festivals, concerts and events to children’s charities has been recognised with a Committee for Sydney award.Humanitix co-founders, Josh Ross and
The founder of a London social enterprise that gives free meals to refugees and the homeless has said it is at risk of closure because the cost of living crisis