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Rethinking the ‘social enterprise city’ idea
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
Continue Reading →City Drive — Workplace wellbeing event
As part of this year’s City Drive, Health Exchange has teamed up with iSE to offer a WorkStyle Workplace Wellbeing event aimed at helping social enterprises to understand how to improve the health, morale and productivity of their staff teams. Join them on Tuesday 4th April, 10.0
Continue Reading →City Drive — Speed date your #SocEnt
The first City Drive event following the launch is Speed Date Your #SocEnt on Monday 3rd April, from 4.00pm until 7.00pm at The Warehouse Cafe. The aim of the event will be for start-up social entrepreneurs to come along and pitch their social enterprise idea to a host of e
Continue Reading →City Drive — the Great Depressed Bake-Off event
Living Well Consortium is teaming up with City Drive 2017 to bring you The Great Depressed Cake Off event. In recent years mental health and culinary experts have come round to the idea that baking can be helpful in relieving the symptoms of anxiety
Continue Reading →City Drive — Be the Board event
A brand-new event for City Drive 2017 is Be the Board on Thursday 6th April 10am – 12noon hosted by The Women’s Enterprise Hub. This interactive event is for early start social enterprises or those who would like to gain more experience of board meetings, strategic planning and decisi
Continue Reading →City Drive partners with Grant Thornton to host “Leading the Way” event
City Drive week has always been a catalyst for bringing private sector organisations, public sector commissioners and social enterprises together and creating great conversations. For City Drive 2017, we are delighted that Grant Thornton are hosting a high-value evening of networking
Continue Reading →City Drive Bus SE — tour of North Birmingham social enterprise sector
In an exciting development for the North Birmingham Social Enterprise Network, we are planning our first tour event of the social enterprise community as part of our City Drive 2017 week of events. NBSEN was officially launched two years ago at the first City Drive and has been growi
Continue Reading →More news on City Drive — book your places at the events you don’t want to miss!
Further to this post and this post, here’s some fresh news about what’s happening during City Drive week from the 3rd-7th April — especially the built environment-themed hackathon event on Wednesday 5th April from 12.30pm-5.30pm. A new event for City Drive 2017 is a&
Continue Reading →Birmingham — social enterprise city?
Further to this post about City Drive, we’re delighted to say that BSSEC is sponsoring an event during the week — an afternoon of interesting and provocative debate entitled, What We Want — Is Birmingham a Social Enterprise City? This takes place from 2pm-4pm on
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 →Raising the profile of social enterprise in Brum — City Drive is back for 2016
Following last year’s extremely successful week of City Drive events, promoting Brum as a city of social enterprise, iSE has just announced that City Drive is back again for 2016, with another week-long programme from 18th-22nd April. The programme so far announced includes: MON
Continue Reading →City Drive opening event
Further to this post, there are some excellent pictures from the City Drive opening event on iSE’s Facebook page. The photos are courtesy Ian Cuthbert Design. I very much enjoyed this one… And also further to this post, if you would like to see what you missed at the Healt
Continue Reading →Tales of social enterprise
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
Continue Reading →City Drive events start next week
There can be few who have missed the fact that City Drive events start on the 20th April — that’s next week! City Drive (see full programme) is a week-long series of events aimed at raising the profile of social enterprise across Birmingham and getting everyone shopping fo
Continue Reading →Talent Match — calling social enterprises
Recruiting for Social Entrepreneurs – Information Event When: 22nd April 2015 – 2pm-4pm. Where: iSE, Avoca Court, 23 Moseley Road, Birmingham, West Midlands B12 0HJ. Social entrepreneurs have a fantastic opportunity to boost their social impact through recruiting new employees.
Continue Reading →Calling social enterprises — in need of free advertising?
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
Continue Reading →“City Drive” — social enterprise story teller volunteers needed
Birmingham City Drive – Social Enterprise Week 20th-24th April 2015 Further to this post, and this one, iSE has just announced the following: We are looking for social enterprise volunteers who are happy to give up 2 hours to share their social enterprise stories in small groups with
Continue Reading →“City Drive” social enterprise walks announced
Further to this post, iSE has just announced the following schedule of social enterprise walks to coincide with the City Drive week of events: As part of the City Drive week, iSE is hosting five social enterprise walks in Digbeth, in order to show how social enterprises work. Birmingh
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