Finally the spring has come to Sweden! Even though I’ve always said that the weather doesn’t really affect me, I now must correct myself. I seem to get an incredible energy boost out of this extra sun shine.

In SE Forum land we’ve been focusing on internal work, writing our report to Sida outlining the activities we’ve delivered and the impact they’ve had. In the coming months we’ll share parts of the outcomes in a more accessible format on our social media. The results were also the reason why we decided to put on an event at our new office, Norrsken House, celebrating social entrepreneurship. We simply had results we wanted to share with the wider community. From what we first thought would be a small and closed event turned out to be a sold out 70+ guest gathering. It was a lot of fun and from the conversations we had afterwards we think it gave an energy boost to the guests as well as us.

At the event we promised to send out a quick survey where you can have your say on the Swedish social entrepreneurship sector. Interested? Please click here to take the survey.

At the same day as the event we also held our annual meeting where a new board was elected. It’s a really interesting mix of experience and expertise so I’m excited for the year to come! You can read all the bios on the website, but in short we have people from the corporate sphere, the NGO-world, academia and of course the entrepreneurial sector. There’s also a mix of competences with members having backgrounds in finance, fundraising, business development, leadership and community building.

I have to finish with the preparation for our SE Outreach Accelerator program. It’s now only two weeks to go and the team is finalizing the program activities, testing everything from a fun treasure hunt to hacking the event app we’ll use. The team’s excitement is rising for every day we get closer to the 24^th of April when the program starts.

Happy spring!

Nicklas