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City Drive — New Start Stories event: great ideas, determination and an extraordinary personal story

April 09, 2019

When we trailed last night’s New Start Stories event at Evolve @ The Adam & Eve we said “expect open, frank conversation and stimulating insights”. We were not disappointed. Indeed, one of the stories we heard caused an audible collective gasp from the audie

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City Drive 2019 starts today

April 08, 2019

City Drive 2019 starts today, an annual week showcasing social enterprise across Birmingham city, organised by iSE CIC on behalf of supporters, sponsors and the wider sector. This year City Drive takes place over six days for the first time with 19 events and over 750 ticket plac

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Full City Drive programme now available

March 18, 2019

The full City Drive 2019 programme is now available — click here. → See all posts tagged City Drive

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City Drive 2019 — social enterprise conference: 8th April

March 11, 2019

→ UPDATE: The full City Drive programme is now available. City Drive 2019 kicks off in grand style this year with a Social Enterprise Conference. The conference theme is exploring new business ideas that maximise social impact. Details WHEN: 8th April 2019, 9.00am registration,

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City Drive 2019 — Impact Investing for Place: 11th April

March 07, 2019

Hold the date for yet another interesting and unusual City Drive event… Impact Investing for Place. Details below. In promoting this event, Sarah Crawley explains: I am especially delighted that we are running this event as I believe it’s the first conversation of its kind. The

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Hold the dates — for these very special City Drive events

March 04, 2019

Hold the dates for these very special City Drive 2019 events… WHAT: Jewellery Quarter Music Walk WHEN: Wed, 10 April 2019, 11am to 1pm; COST: £5.92 (inc booking fee) WHERE: Jewellery Quarter, 16 Frederick St, Birmingham B1 3HE Join Jez Collins, founder of the Birmingham Music Ar

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City Drive 2019 — You are invited to ‘New-Start Stories’

March 01, 2019

Further to this post, you are warmly invited to ‘New Start Stories’, sponsored by BSSEC and held as part of City Drive. Come and hear from four very different new starts and find out what starting a social enterprise is really like… Light refreshments will be served.

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City Drive 2019 — 8th April: hold the date for more ‘new-start stories’…

February 27, 2019

During City Drive last year BSSEC sponsored a very successful and enjoyable event called New-Start Stories: The Unvarnished Truth. We found that while new-start social entrepreneurs were keen to tell their stories and people were keen to hear them, there were very few opportunities to

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

February 11, 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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