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The Public Services (Social Value) Bill Passed – Find Out More at BVSC 2nd March 2012

February 28, 2012
by Alun Severn
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The Public Services (Social Value) Bill passed its final stages today (28th February 2012) and looks set to be on statute books in the next few days. The new law will require public bodies including councils, for the first time, to consider the economic, social and environmental wellb
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Communitybuilders opens new £500k fund for feasibility studies

February 27, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Third Sector Online has announced today that Communitybuilders has opened a new £500,000 fund which will make grants for research and feasibility studies to community groups that are seeking to develop services that generate income. Open from today until noon on the 13th April 2012 th
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The principal-agent problem

February 24, 2012
by Alun Severn
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I was listening to Evan Davis’s business talk show The Bottom Line on R4 yesterday evening.  I almost always learn something from  this and Peter Day’s In Business. Last night’s Bottom Line taught me something about the principal-agent problem, which I had been think
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The case for improved public understanding of social enterprise has never been greater

February 20, 2012
by Alun Severn
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The recent news that the public campaign against the transfer of Gloucestershire community care services into a new mutual has forced the PCT to postpone its plans reveals that there is a greater need than ever for effective promotion and explanation of the social enterprise idea. Glo
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Acocks Green Methodist Church Institute seeks tenants or development partners for mixed-use building

February 17, 2012
by Alun Severn
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The 9,000 sq ft Acocks Green Methodist Church Institute in Botteville Rd is in the process of moving to a mixed community use model for its Institute building and is seeking tenants, interested local organisations and social entrepreneurs who may be interested in working towards this
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Birmingham turns over a new LEAF

February 15, 2012
by Alun Severn
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        Two BIRMINGHAM based social businesses, iSE and Localise West Midlands (LWM), are celebrating their success in winning national funding from LEAF, the Local Energy Assessment Fund.  This funding will resource 10 locally based social enterprises to engage in
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Two Years of Social Enterprise Mentor Networking

February 09, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Social Enterprise Mentor turn 2 years old this month…or to put it another way… Over 600 cups of coffee (tea, wine, water, etc) Lots of conversations and business outcomes Almost 9,000 website visits Social Enterprise Mentor, Birmingham’s only monthly networking event dedic
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A bad advert for Community Interest Companies?

February 07, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Given the rise of the CIC legal form as the preferred structure for many social enterprises, the story unfolding about the Health Lottery seems one that should concern the social enterprise movement. I have been trying to follow Third Sector Online’s coverage of the story. Third
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Social Enterprise Mark’s 50in250 Campaign Comes to West Midlands

February 06, 2012
by Alun Severn
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The Social Enterprise Mark’s ’50 in 250′ campaign to get 50 large companies to sign up to buy from at least 5 Social Enterprise Mark holders within 250 days will be held in Birmingham on Friday 2nd March 2012. Register Here. This campaign, which is supported by Cloud
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Civil service pensions admin company becomes “joint venture mutual”

February 03, 2012
by Alun Severn
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An announcement by the Cabinet office — dating back to last April — has just been brought to my attention (thanks to Chris Newis at BDRC). Apparently, My Civil Service Pension (MyCSP) is the first central government department to be spun-out as a mutual joint venture. The
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Brum wins £600K from ‘Transforming Local Infrastructure’ fund

February 02, 2012
by Alun Severn
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I have mentioned the Office for Civil Society’s Transforming Local Infrastructure programme before on this blog (in this post, for instance). Well, this morning I heard the best news in ages — the bid submitted by Birmingham’s TLI partnership has been successful, sec
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