Adrian Ashton

As part of reflecting on 2025 being the 20th anniversary of my business, I started to wonder what else was similarly 'birthed' in th...

For well over a decade, I've been offering ' beer mentoring ' as a model to help me engage with, and support, people who might o...

'Social enterprise' is a phrase that seems to be increasingly commonplace, and something that we're all being encouraged to star...

In my experience of supporting various start-up programmes throughout the UK over the last 20 years, and having walked alongside many for p...

I've always prided myself on trying new approaches and ideas in not only how I manage myself as a provider of enterprise support, but a...

I've always been a keen proponent of enterprise education in all its forms, and for all ages too - not just for the sake of encouraging...

Business support comes in all sorts of forms, in all sorts of places, and from all sorts of people. But the question that all entrepren...

Throughout my professional life, I've been referred to as being/likened to all sorts of things: Darth Vader, Derren Brown, Shakespeare,...

I’m on my way back from London where I’ve just spent 50 minutes chatting with a medium sized charity about what I might be able to offer th...

I had the opportunity this summer to spend a week mentoring a cohort of South Korean social entrepreneurs as part of the UK leg of their in...

WARNING: if you're a social media manager or consultant, you should probably stop reading now. For the rest of you ( and those brav...

One of the things that makes me a little unusual as a consultant is that wherever possible, I don't give my clients a bill - instead I p...

Many people who've shared some of my professional life will know that I seem to be able to engage quite well with most people, and eith...

So I was there (as were lots of other people) - the first 5-day festivalof Social Enterprise hosted by Greenwich University (and pulled to...

So - most people use LinkedIn to a lesser or greater extent; I'm a fan it it myself , having been around long enough to have had a ...

I’ll begin by outing myself ( again ) on the subject of Community Interest Companies (CICs) – I’ve personally never been a big fan of them ...

Co-ops: they’re great, right? Everybody seems to love them, and they’re often held up as models of enterprise that can fulfil some of the ...