Category: social enterprise
Read Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon’s posts on social enterprise from her experiences and travels.
2020 – My year of Joy and of ‘Missing Out’
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Back in 2018, my speaking agent dropped me a note asking whether I’d do an exciting gig in Cape Town. I was ready to say yes, but the event date really troubled me. 7th March meant that I’d have to do the ridiculous thing of not being in London during […]
Judging at the London Mayor’s Entrepreneur Award 2018 – congrats to WithLula
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Now in it’s third year, the Mayor’s Entrepreneur is a competition run by the London Mayor to award £20,000 in seed funding to entrepreneurial student-run startups from across the London student population. This year 468 entries based on the carbon reduction brief were received and whittled down to ten finalists, […]
There may be ‘no AMI in team’, but I know what #squadgoals are.
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I spent the first 20ish years of my life working alone. At school, sixth-form and university I was marked on my own work – never in groups and so, to be frank, was a poor team player. Not in the sense that we normally mean – poor team players don’t […]
Incubators: babies and a 12 bedroom house
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My earliest memory of an incubator is from the first time I met my youngest sister. A twin, she had taken second place to her twin brother in the womb and so on the day she was born I was only able to gape at her through plastic casing. Some […]
Travelling doesn’t just broaden the mind – it tests the team
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I’ve never understood or experienced the travel bug and so don’t empathise with friends who insist on going to far-flung places to sit on elephants or climb mountain X just for the view. As a proud and perhaps somewhat arrogant Londoner, I’ve always suffered FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) when […]
Five lessons at Twenty Five
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June is my birthday month. This June I met the Queen & Duke of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace, sat at a breakfast table with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Lady Martha Lane-Fox, Mayor Bloomberg and Mayor Boris (all at the same time) and was called into meet with one of the most senior people […]
A lot can happen in a year – thank you 2013
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I look back at the past 365 days, via my blog posts, tweeted pictures and emails and am astonished at what has happened. In my final post of 2012, I wrote that ‘I hoped my thank you list for 2013 would be longer’, but would never have guessed the scale […]
Doing good? Trying to prove it is ‘Mission Impossible’
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“We haven’t quite got 99 problems – we actually identified 9 problems with social impact measurement.” – Jack Graham, CEO & Founder of Year Here I first encountered the notion of a social entrepreneur after attending an event hosted by Lord Wei at university and since have looked on social […]
Patience is a name. Serendipity is my virtue.
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For me serendipity arises more when you’re open to new ideas, open with your thoughts & ideas and open with your time. A closed hand can’t receive anything. I absolutely hate being told “Patience is a virtue, Anne-Marie”. One Saturday afternoon a few months back, Michelle Brook (also known as […]
Make Mistakes. Go to Failure parties. Repeat for success.
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Know that you don’t know all of the answers. If you assume you do, you’ll never learn anything. – anon I love learning. I love creating & discovering new learning experiences in new arenas. I love getting that buzz from discovering a new feature on a piece of software (like figuring […]