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The description ‘terrifying’ is justified

December 30, 2010
by Alun Severn
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There’s an interesting and thoughtful end-of-year editorial by Stephen Cook, editor of Third Sector magazine here in which he considers the state of the sector in 2011 and does a good job of analysing rhetoric and reality as regards the big society and public spending cuts. Well
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“Let us pay”

December 28, 2010
by Alun Severn
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John Lanchester, whose book Whoops! I wrote about in this earlier post, has a terrific piece about the newspaper industry in the latest issue of the London Review of Books. You can read it in full here. Anyone interested in print journalism, online media and the power of economic (and
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Xmas greetings

December 22, 2010
by Alun Severn
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BSSEC members, blog readers and Birmingham’s social enterprise community wish you all the best for Christmas and the New Year.
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A short, useful lesson in raising funds

December 21, 2010
by Alun Severn
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Anyone who knows the Magnum photographer Larry Towell’s wonderful work will know that he has photographed over the years in some of the most demanding environments — El Salvador, post-Katrina New Orleans, Palestine — bringing back marvellous pictures that now make up
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Calling social enterprises working with ex-offenders, substance abuse, refugees

December 16, 2010
by Alun Severn
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Social Firms UK is working on a Home Office project to identify social enterprises providing training, development or employment support to ex-offenders, refugees/asylum-seekers, or ex-substance abusers. Can you help? The project is mentioned here by Social Enterprise East of England
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Whoops!

December 13, 2010
by Alun Severn
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Over the weekend I read John Lanchester’s brilliant book, Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No one Can Pay. It really is as good as the majority of reviews have been saying. If you want to understand how how the various parts of the financial crisis are inter-related and wh
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Anthony Collins Solicitors produces guidance on community asset transfer

December 09, 2010
by Alun Severn
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BSSEC member Anthony Collins Solicitors has developed a guidance pack on community asset transfer for public bodies which is being made available through the new Asset Transfer Unit. This new legal toolkit, which is free, was featured in the Guardian public sector supplement yesterday
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Government calls for evidence on modernising public sector commissioning

December 08, 2010
by Alun Severn
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It rather feels as if we’ve been here before… The Office for Civil Society has just published its green paper on modernising public sector commissioning. Called Modernising Commissioning: Increasing the role of charities, social enterprises, mutuals and co-operatives in pu
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‘Social enterprise & the Big Society’ symposium report published

December 02, 2010
by Alun Severn
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On the 18th November over fifty delegates from social enterprises, civil society organisations and network bodies assembled in Birmingham at a major symposium organised by iSE. The aim was to provide an opportunity for the area’s key movers in social enterprise to focus for a mo
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Transition Fund opens for business

December 01, 2010
by Alun Severn
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Further to this post, the government has just announced that the £100m ‘transition fund‘ — aimed at helping those civil society organisations and social enterprises that are heavily dependent on publicly funded contracts weather the public spending cuts — has o
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