# New Chair at Social Enterprise Coalition

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/12/06/new-chair-social-enterprise-coalition/
- Published: 2007-12-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Liverpool-based entrepreneur Claire Dove is to be the new Chair of the Social Enterprise
Coalition, the national body for social enterprises.
Claire Dove MBE, DL has been
involved in the social enterprise movement since the early 1980s and will replace
outgoing Chair Baroness Glenys Thornton.

Dove is the CEO of Blackburne House Group, an organisation which runs a number of
social enterprises providing career opportunities for women in non-traditional sectors
such as construction and IT.

Jonathan Bland, chief executive of the Coalition, said: “Claire’s achievements in
Merseyside are tangible proof of how markets can be used to serve communities. The
Coalition will be drawing on her wealth of experience to continue the fight to place
social enterprise at the heart of the economy.”

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