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“Establishing social enterprises under the Right to Request Programme” — NAO report sparks row

June 30, 2011
by Alun Severn
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The National Audit Office has just published “Establishing social enterprises under the Right to Request Programme”, an examination of the government’s right to request programme. The fully report and summary can be downloaded from  the NAO website here. While acknow
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HumAnima — new CIC offers animal assisted therapy

June 21, 2011
by Alun Severn
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UnLtd has awarded a Level 1 Award to innovative new West Midlands-based CIC HumAnima, a social enterprise providing a professional humanistic counselling and Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) service to individuals and organisations in the local area. Kathryn Kimbley, HumAnima CIC’s Direc
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Housing Associations and Social Enterprise

June 15, 2011
by Alun Severn
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I’ve just come across this Inside Housing article which highlights a number of housing associations actively involved in social enterprise, including Staffordshire-based Aspire’s PM Training and Indigo Training Solutions. I’m also aware of others, for example having
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Blow-by-blow reactions to revisions to the Health & Social Care Bill

June 14, 2011
by Alun Severn
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I’ve been trying to follow the blow-by-blow reactions to the changes the government has made to the Health & Social Care Bill following yesterday’s publication of the NHS Future Forum’s report. There is a full transcript of today’s speech by David Cameron s
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Greater Manchester Voluntary Sector Support publishes new advice factsheets

June 14, 2011
by Alun Severn
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I don’t know all that much about GMVSS but I had occasion to speak at some length with colleagues there a year or two back when researching a report on infrastructure support. I’m impressed with the quality, conciseness and ease of access of the new range of free factsheet
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Transition Fund brings good news for Birmingham

June 14, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Third Sector Online has just announced that 727 third sector organisations will be sharing a total of £81m in grant support from the third round of applications to the Transition Fund (via Big Lottery). There will be some happy faces in Birmingham. Just under 5% (36 organisations) in
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Social Enterprise Mentor networking comes to Coventry

June 13, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Birmingham’s networking event for social enterprises and entrepreneurs, Social Enterprise Mentor, has been growing in popularity since it started in February 2010. It has helped 100’s of people to find out more about the movement, start their enterprises, build relationshi
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MPs say government’s mutuals programme needs better “explanation and exhortation”

June 09, 2011
by Alun Severn
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The All Parliamentary Group on Employee Ownership has just published the report of its short inquiry into progress with the government’s programme for spinning-out public services as employee-owned mutuals. You can download the report here. According to the APG’S report th
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State aid – don’t get into a State, seek assistance

June 01, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Is that a groan I hear? To be fair, it is the right response for such a poor pun, but I had to do something to try to grab your attention: this is an article about law after all, and European law at that. What is State aid, and what has it got to do with me? You might well ask. Briefl
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