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Trading on the internet — workshop
Trading on the Internet, will be held on the 30th October from 9.30 – 12.30pm and will delivered by Nate and Martin from Citizen Click. For bookings please contact Marija on 0121 771 1411 or send her mail.
Continue Reading →Over 19 and unemployed? Want to boost your employability?
iSE has begun a new programme to help unemployed over-19s gain skills and experience by volunteering in social enterprises. See the flyer below. If you are interested please send mail to Emma Nugent or call 0121 771 1411 or simply pop in and see the folks at 23 Moseley Road, Digbeth,
Continue Reading →Government to review social value Act
Third Sector online has just announced that the government is planning a review of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 to see whether it might be extended — for example, to cover the public purchase of goods, rather than only services, as the Act currently stipulates. Th
Continue Reading →BSSEC Annual Report 2014 published
We have just published our second Annual Report. Now that we have two Annual Reports available we have started a new page on the website to archive them. The trading and social policy climate for social enterprises continues to be exceptionally difficult and as in preceding years we h
Continue Reading →iSE offers Meaningful Marketing master class
iSE is offering a Meaningful Marketing master class — please see flyer below. Please note that eligibility criteria apply. For more information and bookings send mail to Marija Sakalauskaite.
Continue Reading →New report explores viability of a single integrated approach to social value measurement in Birmingham
The Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise & Governance at Northampton University has just reported on work it and a number of academic partners have been doing in Birmingham to design a software-based solution that would help the council fully implement social value and
Continue Reading →Voting for social enterprise rep to the Greater Birmingham & Solihull European Structural & Investment Funds Committee
Voting for social enterprise rep to the Greater Birmingham & Solihull European Structural & Investment Funds Committee Please note that in order to vote you should be from an organisation based in the Greater Birmingham & Solihull LEP area, as seen above. Further to
Continue Reading →Nominations for social enterprise rep to the Greater Birmingham & Solihull European Structural & Investment Funds Committee
This, just in from The Digbeth Trust, which has offered to co-ordinate the nominations process… Nominations for social enterprise rep to the Greater Birmingham & Solihull European Structural & Investment Funds Committee The government has outlined new plans for how Loca
Continue Reading →Bibsy Bananas is latest in surge of social enterprises to take up loan finance
ART (Aston Reinvestment Trust), a social enterprise itself, has been lending to social enterprises since it started in 1997. In recent years, perhaps not surprisingly in view of the challenging economic environment and huge public sector spending cuts, very few have come forward look
Continue Reading →Ticket offer for META-Health Conference, 12th-14th September, Solihull
There’s still time to book a one, two or three day ticket to the 6th International META-Health Conference, which opens in Solihull on Friday 12th September. And if you book online using the codes below you’ll get a discount. If you’re interested in health and wellbeing, either person
Continue Reading →Birmingham new-start Little Miss Creative launches in New York
Set up only this year, Birmingham social enterprise Little Miss Creative gives a voice to young creative women, creating the next generation of free thinking female leaders who will inform and shape the future. And they’re already off to the US for a New York launch that will gi
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