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Social enterprise networking…in Paradise
This, just in from SEUK WM and the PwC Social Entrepreneurs Club… Social enterprise networking & ‘History in the Making’ Monday 3 July, 17.00 @ Paradise BIRMINGHAM Development Join SEUK WM and the PwC Social Entrepreneurs Club for an evening of drinks, canap
Continue Reading →Crowdfund Birmingham — new funding opportunities for community benefit projects
Further to this post, we now have further news about Crowdfund Birmingham, the new joint initiative between Birmingham City Council and Crowdfunder. Launched at the start of the year, Crowdfund Birmingham is a new campaign to help people with good ideas raise the money they
Continue Reading →Transformation and Social Value: Social Prescribing Keynote
PSIAMS Systems will be hosting a data focussed conference during City Drive Week in Birmingham. The event will feature a range of presentations and workshops on how data is transforming the way the Voluntary and Social Enterprise Sector are responding to change and the needs of commis
Continue Reading →City Drive is back for 2017
City Drive, iSE’s week-long showcase of all things social enterprise has rapidly become a fixture in the calendar — and it’s back again this year, from Monday 3rd to Friday 7th April, with a packed programme of free events, workshops, debate and networking. → Mo
Continue Reading →Save Our Support plans flash mob demo 27th February — against cuts to services for city’s most vulnerable
Further to this post, yesterday’s huge lobby against the cuts to Birmingham’s services for its most vulnerable groups showed just how passionately service users, advocacy groups and others are fighting to defend these services (coverage: here, here, here). Save Our Support
Continue Reading →Birmingham City Council launches Crowdfunding Birmingham
Birmingham City Council is launching Crowdfund Birmingham and wants to hear now from local organisations interested in raising money through crowdfunding. The council is setting aside £470,000 from its Community Innovation Fund to provide match funding to pledge on projects that will
Continue Reading →The Pump, premier youth hub in East Birmingham celebrates tenth birthday
With a music studio, performance space, a dance studio, cyber-cafe, a daycare nursery, room hire, and facilities over four floors with full disabled access, The Pump is the hub for youth work and activity in Kitts Green, in the heart of East Birmingham. And it is celebrating its
Continue Reading →Save Our Support plans second lobby against cuts to services for most vulnerable
Birmingham Changing Futures Together is one of the organisations co-ordinating opposition to the cuts currently planned for the city’s various Supporting people services (see earlier post). It has just issued the following statement: I am writing to you asking for your support f
Continue Reading →Birmingham voluntary sector mobilises against cuts to services for the most vulnerable
We wrote in this post about the PUBLIC CONSULTATION currently underway on Birmingham City Council’s proposed cuts to its Supporting People and Third Sector Grant Programmes. This would see cuts of £5m this year, rising to £10m in 2018/9. These reductions com
Continue Reading →Midland Mencap mass lobby against disability cuts
The further cuts proposed in Birmingham City Council’s 2017 budget — including cuts across all Supporting People services — will hit the most vulnerable groups in the city hard. St Basils has said, “We absolutely understand the extremely difficult decisions tha
Continue Reading →John Taylor Hospice fashion gala
Shoppers are being offered huge savings on high street styles in a fashion show to raise money for Birmingham’s John Taylor Hospice. The catwalk gala — from 7pm at Boxxed in Floodgate Street, Digbeth on Wednesday July 20th — will have up to half price reductions on women’s
Continue Reading →Prosperity Parade — new book traces history of Digbeth Social Enterprise Qtr
I’ve just been reading David Boyle’s new book, Prosperity Parade: Eight stories from the frontline of local economic recovery. The project was supported by The Barrow Cadbury Trust and can be read in full here on the Trust’s website or here on the New Weather Institu
Continue Reading →City Camp Birmingham — a festival of ideas and alternative futures
The Impact Hub is celebrating its first birthday and as part of this is hosting City Camp, an open festival bringing together pioneering ideas from across the world. The festival will run throughout the 31st May to the 18th June 2016. City Camp will explore the theme of city futures &
Continue Reading →Rewriting the rules of opera
Birmingham Opera Company, under artistic director, Graham Vick, was born of a passion and a belief that opera — often seen as elitist, costly and inaccessible — can be a community art that speaks directly to all kinds of people. The company doesn’t have an “ope
Continue Reading →Making the Cut
For two years now equality and human rights charity brap has been investigating the impact of public spending cuts in Birmingham. Its project Making the Cut looks at the impact austerity measures are having on both people and the organisations providing the services they need. It exam
Continue Reading →Early Years health and wellbeing consultation — open forum session dates
This, just in from Birmingham Play Care Network… Birmingham City Council is leading a review of the way that Early Years Services are provided in the city. Many providers of early years services are third sector organisations and it is important that the sector engages as fully
Continue Reading →The Women’s Enterprise Hub is recruiting…
The Women’s Enterprise Hub, Sparkbrook, is recruiting… Centre Manager Full time (37.5 hours/week); Salary £26,000 plus pension at 3% plus bonus Closing Date: Friday 18th December 2015 at 12 noon Following a massive refurbishment, the new Hub offers inspiring office units,
Continue Reading →2016 marks centenary year for BVSC
BVSC began life in 1916 as Birmingham Citizens Society and will be celebrating its centenary throughout 2016 with events and activities. Chief exec Brian Carr is keen that BVSC’s birthday is used to celebrate voluntary action in all its forms. “Our sector is is one of Birm
Continue Reading →Fundraising arts evening at new John Taylor Hospice cafe, Moments
The ever enterprising John Taylor Hospice — the first social enterprise hospice in the UK — has recently opened a cafe in the heart of Birmingham city centre. Moments cafe is a social venue with a social value and all profits are used to support John Taylor Hospice’s
Continue Reading →The Women’s Enterprise Hub Sparkbrook is Officially Open – Come and See Us!
November 24, 2015
Women across Birmingham can now take advantage of the space and business support on offer from the new Women’s Enterprise Hub in Sparkbrook. Our aim is to help women gain the confidence and skills they need to aim high and realise their full potential in business. The Hub will be man
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