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Women & Enterprise — business growth school announced

August 18, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Women & Enterprise is launching its growth school – a 2-day workshop for women who are currently running businesses and would like to develop and grow their business.   → Send email to book.
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iSE announces Social Saturday 2015

August 17, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Social Saturday was inaugurated by SE UK last year and was hailed as a great success. Birmingham marked the occasion with a street market in Digbeth, bringing together iSE, the Digbeth Social Enterprise Quarter, social enterprises from all over Birmingham — and supporters from B
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Access launches consultation on access to finance and design of new £60m capacity-building programme

August 04, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Access: The Foundation for Social Investment is a new charitable foundation developed in partnership with the UK Cabinet Office, Big Society Capital and Big Lottery Fund. Access’s purpose, it states, “is to be a champion for those charities and social enterprises that are
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September Social Enterprise Mentor networking event — Dudley

August 04, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Cloudberry and Social Enterprise West Midlands, will be running the next Social Enterprise Mentor networking event in Dudley on 10th September. Social Enterprise Mentor is the Midlands leading networking event for social enterprise providing social entrepreneurs and social enterprises
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Social entrepreneurs and business leaders awarded visiting fellowships by Aston University

August 03, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Eighteen alumni of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme have been made Visiting Industrial Fellows by Aston University — including our own Sarah Crawley, chief exec of iSE. The awards were made on the 3rd June 2015 by Professor Mark Hart, Professor of Small Busine
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