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Calling Birmingham-based social enterprises — City Drive is back for 2019: be part of it

February 11, 2019
by Alun Severn
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CityDrive 2019 is a week-long festival of social enterprise in Birmingham organised by iSE. iSE is now seeking social enterprises that want to be part of the exciting CityDrive 2019 programme. From pop-ups, workshops and marketplaces, talks, debates, networks and awareness raisin
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100s of guests and over 50 exhibitors celebrate recognition of Birmingham as a social enterprise city

April 27, 2018
by Alun Severn
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UPDATED 14th June 2018: More coverage of this event and Birmingham’s Social Enterprise ~City achievement HERE. Today, the final day of City Drive 2018, also marked Birmingham’s successful bid to be recognised as a Social Enterprise City and it saw the city’s social e
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Who starts new social enterprises and why? Three recent new-starts told us their extraordinary stories

April 24, 2018
by Alun Severn
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For nine months or so now, as part of an Awards for All funded project, we have been documenting the changing face of social enterprise by covering the stories of newer, younger social enterprises that are new on the scene. What’s it like to start a new social enterprise in the
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Retail Therapy Event at John Lewis, Birmingham – City Drive week

April 20, 2018
by Mark Ellerby
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 Retail Therapy Event, with Martin Hogg, Citizen Coaching CIC Tuesday 24th April 2pm-4.30pm Part of City Drive Week Join Martin, for a ‘warts and all’ roundtable discussion to explore retail challenges, successes and what what’s working in social enterprise retail. We’ll cov
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City Drive 2018 — full programme released, including invitation to SE Festival

April 11, 2018
by Alun Severn
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The folk at iSE have been pulling out all the stops again and the full programme for City Drive 2018 is now available, kicking off on Monday 23rd April. Also of note, invitations for the City Drive’s flagship Social Enterprise Festival have also been released — see below.
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New-start stories: the unvarnished truth — 23rd April, 5-7pm, Evolve @ The Adam & Eve

April 09, 2018
by Alun Severn
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It’s extremely hard for new social enterprises to find a time and place to discuss shared problems, reflect on their experiences, have a good natter — and if needs be let off steam. We thought it would be a good idea to sponsor a City Drive event which we hope will offer j
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New-start stories: the unvarnished truth — 23rd April, 5-7pm, Evolve @ The Adam & Eve

March 28, 2018
by Alun Severn
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Since July of last year, as part of an Awards for All funded project BSSEC been searching out and publishing the stories of newer, younger social enterprises. We have called these stories the changing face of social enterprise. The reason for doing this was two-fold. First, the sector
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City Drive is back for 2018 — with a packed week of events and some very special news

March 21, 2018
by Alun Severn
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With 2018 marking the fifth anniversary of the Digbeth Social Enterprise Quarter, iSE’s week-long CITY DRIVE 2018 series of events will kick off again on Monday 23rd April and this year it will be very special.  BSSEC is pleased to be sponsoring an event to showcase the cha
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Rethinking the ‘social enterprise city’ idea

April 10, 2017
by Alun Severn
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Further to this post, I’m delighted to announce that the “Is Birmingham a Social Enterprise City?” event we sponsored as part of City Drive was a great success.  We hoped that the event would provide an opportunity to rethink the ‘social enterprise city’ co
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Tales of social enterprise

April 20, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Published to mark Birmingham’s first week-long City Drive social enterprise festival, Tales of social enterprise tells the stories of six social entrepreneurs whose businesses operate in the Digbeth Social Enterprise Quarter. City Drive — which runs from the 20th-24th Apri
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Calling social enterprises — in need of free advertising?

April 07, 2015
by Alun Severn
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This, just in from iSE… If you’re in need of some free advertising, then we have just what you’re looking for.  Would you like to be featured in the NEW Shop for Change Directory? As part of City Drive 2015 (20-24 April) we are relaunching the Shop for Change Directo
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