CAN Press Releases

12th May 2008 - Adele Blakebrough to step down as CAN CEO
Adele Blakebrough, the award-winning social entrepreneur and co-founder of CAN, is to step down as CEO in September. She will be replaced by Andrew Croft, Director of CAN Mezzanine, the social enterprise providing high quality, affordable office space for the Third Sector.

27th March 2008 - Encouraging words for the Third Sector from the Shadow Cabinet
CAN Mezzanine, the social enterprise that provides office space to the Third Sector welcomed Shadow Minister, Rt Hon Francis Maude, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office & Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Greg Clark MP, Shadow Cabinet Minister with responsibility for Third Sector to their award winning offices in One London Bridge.

17th January 2008 - CAN Mezzanine welcomes 100th customer
CAN Mezzanine, the award-winning social enterprise that provides office space to the Third Sector, welcomes its 100th customer, Four Paws UK. The European animal welfare charity joined other third sector organisations in CAN Mezzanine’s Loman Street office in early January 2008.

30th November 2007 - Former Merrill Lynch equity analyst to head up social investment fund
Former Merrill Lynch equity analyst Denise Holle has joined leading UK social enterprise CAN to head up Breakthrough, its pioneering social investment fund co-founded with the private equity firm Permira. Breakthrough invests growth capital and management expertise in established social enterprises to help them scale up their social impact.

15th November 2007 - Social Enterprise CAN Mezzanine saves Third Sector more than £2.2m every year
CAN Mezzanine, the social enterprise providing serviced-office space to charities and social enterprises, saves the Third Sector in excess of £2.2m every year, according to independent social impact findings.

29th October 2007 - Breakthrough Tackling Social Enterprises' Struggle to Scale-up
Most social enterprises will struggle to scale-up from start-up stage, according to the findings of the Breakthrough initiative, a pioneering two-year social investment programme set-up and run by CAN and Permira. Launched in 2005, the initiative is designed to tackle the financial and management challenges inhibiting the growth of Social Enterprise.

26th July 2007 - "Social Enterprises Need to Grow Up"
Social enterprises need to grow up and become more business-like to increase their impact. This is the message coming from Adele Blakebrough - head of Community Action Network (CAN) - speaking at a debate to mark the launch of Breakthrough: Scaling up social enterprise, a ground-breaking new initiative with Permira, a leading Private equity firm, to help established social enterprises scale up.

3rd July 2007 - CAN Chief Executive wins Business in the Community Awards
Adele Blakebrough, CAN Chief Executive wins the BITC Marks & Spencer Sieff Award – for individuals based in the community who have successfully collaborated with business to benefit society.