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School for Social Entrepreneurs & Lloyds announce new grants and support scheme for social entrepreneurs

May 24, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Covered in Third Sector Online here and on the SfSE’s website here, the School for Social Entrepreneurs has just announced that its new Social Entrepreneurs Programme, offered jointly with Lloyds Banking Group, will provide grants of between £4,000 and £25,000 along with up to a
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The moral limits of the market

May 21, 2012
by Alun Severn
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There was a really good book review in the Guardian on Saturday. I don’t mean a review of a really good book, because in all honesty it isn’t very likely that I will read the book itself, but a review that was genuinely informative and thought-provoking in itself. It was a
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Social Investment Business calls for approved providers of “investment and/or contract readiness” support

May 08, 2012
by Alun Severn
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The Investment & Contract Readiness Fund, first mentioned by the Cabinet Office late last year, is now in the process of being set up by the Social Investment Business, which will administer the fund. SIB is calling for providers of “investment and/or contract readiness̶
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Community Right…to very little at all

May 08, 2012
by Alun Severn
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We noted with some interest and, dare we say it, even some excitement the rights contained within the Localism Act 2011 known as “the community right to challenge”. The principle was a radical one – any organisation or consortium of organisations which considered tha
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Independent audit concludes ‘big society’ could become an initiative for the ‘leafy suburbs’

May 08, 2012
by Alun Severn
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A new report concludes that the coalition’s flagship ‘big society’ policy continues to be of genuine public interest but that a clear vision and strategy for its implementation are still lacking. The report — the first attempt to ‘audit’ the first t
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Green Deal opportunities for social enterprises — new report highlights lessons

May 07, 2012
by Alun Severn
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As mentioned here, Localise West Midlands has recently been working jointly with iSE to deliver a project enabling social enterprises to get involved in Green New Deal business. An evaluation report, Green Deal Opportunities for Social Enterprise, has just been published. The report s
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