enterprise for all?

Part of the problem is that some people still need to be persuaded of the importance of enterprise to regeneration.

Traditional approaches have singularly failed to tackle the causes of unemployment and poverty.

Count up how much dosh has been spent to secure the long-term social, economic, physical and environmental renewal of our most disadvantaged areas; then ask yourself, has enough changed?

There is no shortage of talented entrepreneurs in even the most hard-pressed local communities.

But their ideas rarely go anywhere.  The rate of business creation in our most deprived communities is only about one sixth of the rate of in the most affluent.  Work it out: we could have 88,000 more businesses in our inner cities if the 'conditions' were right.