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BVSC announces new Chair

April 26, 2011
by Alun Severn
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BVSC has just announced that its outgoing chair, Jacqui Francis, who has served a  six-year term, has been replaced by Jonathan Driffill. Jon, who is MD of Friendship Care & Housing group, is widely known in the sector. You can download BVSC’s press release here.
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‘The world hasn’t ended!’

April 20, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Despite the almost unrelieved bad news, the world hasn’t ended and there is still time to meet up with like-minded people and explore possibilities… Joint working, new business opportunities, ideas, information… And failing that, decent food, refreshments and maybe a
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iSE announces 46 new social enterprise jobs created in SW Birmingham

April 18, 2011
by Alun Severn
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I’m really proud to be able to announce that through a recent Working Neighbourhoods-funded project, the South West Birmingham Accelerator Project, 46 jobs have been created in the deprived South West area of Birmingham with the help of iSE.The project helped eight local people
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Roots HR gains preferred supplier status for Manchester voluntary sector

April 15, 2011
by Alun Severn
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All of us at Roots HR are celebrating this week, having beaten off stiff national competition to achieve preferred supplier status for the Greater Manchester Voluntary Sector Support (GMVSS) Market Place. We’ll now work closely with GMVSS Market Place to design and deliver a ran
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CLG launches consultation on new ‘minimal, light touch’ statutory guidance on Best Value

April 13, 2011
by Alun Severn
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The department for Communities & Local Government has today published new draft statutory guidance for local authorities and Best Value. The implications of this new guidance are wide-ranging. The new guidance will free local authorities from previous duties contained in Creating
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Salvation Army wins contract to support victims of sexual trafficking

April 13, 2011
by Alun Severn
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The Poppy project, a specialist service from the Eaves Housing organisation that has supported victims of sexual trafficking for the past eight years, has lost out in a retendering exercise to the Salvation Army. Eaves claims that the new service — worth £6m over three years 
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Wates want to do business with Social Enterprises

April 11, 2011
by Alun Severn
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On the 24th March 2011 iSE organised and hosted a Meet the Buyer event on behalf of Wates Construction and Living Space.  The aim of the event was to raise awareness of potential opportunities Wates wish to sub-contract with Social Enterprises. Those opportunities included; painting o
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Anglian Community Enterprise

April 11, 2011
by Alun Severn
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It seems strange to see a brand new social enterprise advertising its first job in the British Medical Journal at a starting salary of £70k, but that is the case with Anglian Community Enterprise, the new provider arm — a CIC — for North Essex PCT. Launched at the beginnin
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Social Enterprise Mentor Launches Big Brain Networking

April 08, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Try a new way of building your business with Social Enterprise Mentor’s Big Brain Networking™ What is Big Brain Networking™? A new style of networking and collaboration from Social Enterprise Mentor that breaks down business and corporate boundaries to encourage social innovation, as
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Struggling to keep up with the pros and cons of health ‘reforms’?

April 07, 2011
by Alun Severn
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As Cameron embarks on a ‘listening exercise’ to try and quell widespread fears — both inside the health profession and outside — regarding Lansley’s health ‘reforms’, I found this piece in yesterday’s Guardian by consultant radiologist J
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Everyone’s talking social media, but who’s using it?

April 05, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Social Media is a real talking point following Voice 11 and the recent survey from O2 (read BSSEC article here), but which social media are social enterprises using and which is the most popular? Social Enterprise Mentor has a new survey on the website asking just that question! So if
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High Court judgement confirms: you have to stand up and be counted

April 05, 2011
by Alun Severn
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An interesting story in today’s Third Sector Online covers the recent High Court ruling that Birmingham City Council’s withdrawal of around £1m of funding from thirteen advice agencies across the city. The High Court has found the decision unlawful — but has said in
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