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Women & Enterprise — business growth school announced
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.
Continue Reading →iSE announces Social Saturday 2015
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
Continue Reading →Google Garage steps in to launch new business service at the Library of Birmingham
Online giant Google has taken over part of the first floor of the Library of Birmingham to set up its first Google Digital Garage — a new service targeting business owners and entrepreneurs looking for a free digital ‘tune up’. If you think your business is in need o
Continue Reading →National Housing Federation conference on social enterprise, work & wellbeing
This year’s National Housing Federation conference will be held in Birmingham at the ICC and on Thursday 24th September there is a special day-long conference and exhibition devoted to social enterprise, work and wellbeing. Keynote speakers at the event include Peter Holbrook (S
Continue Reading →Access launches consultation on access to finance and design of new £60m capacity-building programme
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
Continue Reading →September Social Enterprise Mentor networking event — Dudley
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
Continue Reading →Social entrepreneurs and business leaders awarded visiting fellowships by Aston University
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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