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Shop for Change puts inter-trading firmly on the map

April 30, 2012
by Alun Severn
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We have covered Shop for Change on this blog before — here, for instance. But did you know that what started as a fairly modest idea to promote more inter-trading between social enterprises and third sector organisations in Birmingham has taken on truly national proportions? Wel
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“Telling Tales” — useful advice about communicating impact

April 26, 2012
by Alun Severn
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brap has recently published Telling Tales: A Practical Toolkit on  Measuring & Communicating Your Impact, and has kindly agreed to make it freely available here. Unlike so much that is written about impact measurement, this is short, practical and accessible. It also focuses on wh
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Buy for Good — helping Birmingham City Council deliver social benefits

April 24, 2012
by Alun Severn
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At last, Buy for Good, the CIC founded jointly by Birmingham City Council and other partners last year is getting some national coverage — here, in the Guardian. Buy for Good is a  social enterprise purchasing consortium, enabling BCC and other partners to purchase and run major
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Social investment initiatives are booming

April 20, 2012
by Alun Severn
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We are now seeing more — and more varied — social investment initiatives than at any time since the first community development finance lenders were established in the late-1990s. And we are also beginning to see investment ideas for the social sector that go right across
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Fifteen Cornwall

April 11, 2012
by Alun Severn
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There was a really interesting article in yesterday’s Guardian about Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant in Cornwall. Read it here. What I really enjoyed about this article was that it wasn’t just PR fluff — it looked at some of the facts and figures behind Fifte
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Salvation Army enters acquisitions arena

April 04, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Many will have heard the subject of social enterprises buying conventional businesses and turning them into not-for-personal-profit models discussed at numerous conferences and events, but the real-life examples of this remain relatively rare. The ability to capitalise deals, carry ou
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Government puts £33m into supporting groups seeking to use new Localism Act rights

April 03, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Third Sector Online carries a piece today revealing that the government is on the verge of letting three large contacts to organisations that will provide support and grants to third sector organisations seeking to use the new rights enshrined in the Localism Act — the right to
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