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• Project-specific legal and financial advice to ‘green’social enterprises is difficult to source. Pro bono private and publically funded support has limits. New professional career pathways in the medium term and law clinics or caféstyle open sessions offering communityoriented legal advice in the short term would be more effective.

• Existing regulatory frameworks are designed for large-scale for-profit organisations with elaborate supply chains. They are not well suited to ‘green’social enterprise where innovation is key–such enterprises require regulatory flexibility and light-touch frameworks that still value worker and consumer well-being.