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New year, new home

On 1 January 2008, prone moved some of our operations to the Hub in Bristol.

It’s a good space: in the heart of the city’s old quarter by the docks, flexible, interesting, properly resourced, a buzz that gets you moving and friendly people who get where we’re coming from.

That’s no accident. The Hub is deliberately designed to flow, synergize, run the physical in and out of the virtual space. They say they’re a multi-sited network connecting social innovators who are striving to improve the world around them in new ways. There are Hubs in London, Rotterdam, Sao Paolo, Toronto, Soweto, elsewhere.

Makes sense to us. New ways for new worlds.

The day after we joined, it was shortlisted as one of the six top social entrepreneurs in the UK by the Independent newspaper.

Social enterprises aren’t just charities or campaigns, says the Indy. They “identify opportunities for market creation and in the process change systems and practices that have excluded millions from benefiting from advances in information education technology, health technology, full employment, and the like…[Their] role is also that of a transformational catalyst, spinning off models that can be replicated for wide adoption in many settings.”

Congratulations to Mike, Ceri, and all the other people who have held on over the past 15 months and believed in the vision. It’s a well-deserved accolade.

We’re glad to be there.