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Bruce Wood, head of London Rebuilding Society's Enterprise Investment Services, talks to the Guardian about the challenges facing Social Enterprises seeking finance and the types of funding available to them. Also featured, Rumbi Tarusenga - head of London Rebuilding Society's Mutual Aid Fund (MAF) and Jane Lanyero from 'Women's Care' discuss how MAF helped Women's Care to diversify its services and become more financially sustainable.

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The New Londoners

London Rebuilding Society's Mutual Aid Fund scheme was featured in the July 21st 2009 edition of The New Londoners online magazine aimed at building understanding between communities.

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socialenterprise magazine focuses on damning Olmec report that BME groups sceptical of greater involvement goal

Nigel Wilkinson, enterprise training manager at London Rebuilding Society, said: 'The social enterprise sector seems to have totally marginalised BME enterprises. Indeed, I would take this one step further by saying that community and voluntary groups actually now feel very distrustful of social enterprise in general. One of the problems is that the resources are simply going to the wrong people: any funds awarded are given to bigger organisations instead of the smaller groups carrying out the work, and it is difficult for smaller groups to feel that they are relevant.'

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Halley Road Article

Newham Recorder 14th March 2007

Watermarks Out of Ten

Times restaurant critic Giles Coren has thrown down the gauntlet not only to restaurants but also to fellow reviewers. In a review of The Fat Badger, dated 13th January 2007, Coren announced that, in future, any restaurant that did not offer tap water before mineral water, or UK-sourced mineral water before foreign, would be scored down in his reviews. The story can be read in full at timesonline. Coren has certainly done his research, and also understands the deeper issues against the trend towards ordering more and more exotic 'mineral water with cachet'. That's probably why he has also announced that the only bottled water he will henceforth tolerate is Belu, which, among other salubrious locations, is available at The Fat Badger in Notting Hill Gate, London. For that, The Fat Badger scored ten out of ten for 'water' in Coren's review. And Coren scores ten out of ten in ours.

Belu Spring Water is sourced and bottled in the UK, and available in an award-winning glass bottle and a bio-degradable 'plastic' bottle made from a maize-based polymer that decomposes in just 8-12 weeks. The parent company, Life Water Ltd, has so far received not one, but two business loans from LRS, each of £50,000. For more details, visit the Belu case study elsewhere on our website.

London Age - Autumn 2006 (published by Age Concern London)

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16 Mar 2007