“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” (Charles Dickens, 1812–1870) Christmas is a magical time, especially for Christians. It celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, some 2000 years ago in Bethlehem, a…
Category: SDG 16
Cutting Through Convention: Welsh Harmonious Enterprises Challenge Business Inequality
The magnificent Cutlers' Hall in Sheffield provided a deeply symbolic backdrop for sharing our Harmonious Entrepreneurship research. This grand Victorian building, home to the Company of Cutlers since 1832, tells its own story of business evolution and social and environmental…
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Resolution at Work: From Conflict to Collaboration
ACAS estimates the cost of conflict to UK organisations is around £28.5 billion per year and suggests that 9.7 million employees per year experience conflict at work. Resolution at Work is at the forefront of workplace mediation and conflict resolution, offering…
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Sustainable Revival: Eco Nubia’s Cultural Renaissance
Our mission is to help local communities to discover their own natural and cultural heritage treasures…put them into action using sustainable tourism practices in order to gain financial and psychological benefits - Ahmed Yehia The small River Nile island of…
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Sustainable Threads: The Bombus Artisanal Ethos
Sustainability is about the balance of looking after ourselves, our planet and each other – wherever possible, minimising harm and leaving the world and its people in a better position than I found them - Amber Jones Amber Jones is…
Healing, Teaching, Empowering: The Multifaceted Mission of Love Zimbabwe in the Heart of Cymru
“Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected" - Kofi Annan After being accused of teaching politics to her pupils in Zimbabwe, geography teacher…
Oasis Cardiff: Championing Entrepreneurial Spirit for Refugees in Wales
“I wanted people to have a safe space where they could come and tell stories and where they could integrate into the wider community’ - Reynette Roberts Oasis Cardiff aims to facilitate the integration of refugees and asylum seekers into…
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Refuge to Revolution: Thrive Group Wales Empowering Women with Enterprise
#IWD24 ##InspireInclusion “Business can and does give back and it only takes one small gesture, like offering someone a job, to make such a massive difference” - Donna Griffiths, Business Development Manager, Bouygues UK International Women's Day is a chance…
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n-ergy’s Impact: Education, Peace, and Reintegration
We pour our heart and soul into our work and believe that the greatest achievements are driven by Passion. - Donna Turner-Not, n-ergy I am immensely proud of our caring, inclusive culture, where we set the highest standards and expectations…
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The Sustainable Studio: Empowering Creative Enterprise and Advancing SDG 16
"Innovation and sustainability aren’t just about what we create, but how we create, and who gets to participate in the process." - Sarah and Julia, Co-founders of The Sustainable Studio In Cardiff, a transformative force is reshaping the creative landscape,…
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HES collaborates in ‘Pathways to Peace’
In the contemporary sustainability crisis and our concern about the planet and global warming, we must never forget that sustainability is about people and their ability to live peacefully and in harmony with each other. With the problems in Eastern…
Offploy CIC: Empowering Ex-Offenders for Better Futures
"Having the mindset, ambition and motivation to be an entrepreneur is a gift, and it's important that gift is used in the right way" - Jacob Hill Jacob Hill, an award-winning serial entrepreneur and ex-offender, founded Offploy CIC in 2016.…
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Tap Social: Brewing Change Through Beer, Baking & Second Chances
“I used to channel my energies into the wrong things. I was successful but now I know that if I had channelled my energies into something positive I could have succeeded there too”. (Cooper an ex-offender and Tap Social employee)…
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XO Bikes
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race” - H.G. Wells, 1866-1946 XO Bikes is not a business with a purpose it is a purpose with a business.…
Effa – Ukrainian eco-business inspires
Having worked as a multinational company project manager for 10 years, but never having felt that she fitted in there, Dasha Kichuk founded Kyiv-based Effa1 in 2018 in partnership with her industrial designer husband, Ilya, a graduate of Kharkiv State…
Chelsea Rock – disrupting the diamond business?
In 2018 the market value of the 147 million carats of mined diamonds was $76 billion, and the industry employed some 10 million people in 50 active mines, found mainly in Russia (43 million carats), Botswana (23 million), Canada (23…
The House of Baukjen
“We care deeply about our people, our customers and our planet” (Baukjen de Swaan Arons). The House of Baukjen is a family-run women’s slow fashion business located in North West London. It comprises two branches, the core brand, Baukjen, and their…
GEW2021 interview: the mind behind the investing in others for sustainable futures
Kay Luan Tay, the recent Vice Chancellor of the International University Malaya-Wales and author of three book on Social and Business Sustainability has wide but unique experience in managing and delivering value across both commercial and non-commercial enterprise. A strong…
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Welsh Manumit Coffee Roasters – freedom through coffee
image credit: girl: I.am_nah Another Wales-based case study to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship 2021 #GEW2021 “In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free”. ( Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865) While slavery was abolished in most countries 150 or more…
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The Syrian Dinner Project
The tragic scenes of refugees fleeing from war-torn Afghanistan bring home, all too vividly, the plight of the “barefoot entrepreneurs” – those people who live ”primarily in marginal, poor and excluded places and contexts” (Imas et al. 2012). While the problem is…
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay (Sallust, 86-35BC)
Since Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020, The Harmonious Entrepreneurship Society has posted case examples of systemic, harmonious enterprises that have focused not just on “ making as much money as possible” (Friedman, 1970) but on Elkington’s (2004) Triple Bottom Line of Profit-People-Planet. Each…
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Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay (Sallust, 86-35BC)
Since Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020, The Harmonious Entrepreneurship Society has posted case examples of systemic, harmonious enterprises that have focused not just on “ making as much money as possible” (Friedman, 1970) but on Elkington’s (2004) Triple Bottom Line of Profit-People-Planet. Each…
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Saltaire, a 19th century manifestation of Harmonious Entrepreneurship?
Saltaire The concept of harmonious entrepreneurship is perhaps not entirely new. Possibly one of the earliest proponents of it is the industrial entrepreneur Sir Titus Salt (1803-1876) who, in 1851, built Saltaire, now a UNESCO World Heritage site in the…
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