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Who ya gonna call?

September 21, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Sadly (at least for someone of my generation) the answer is not “Ghostbusters”. Rather, this is just to draw to your attention to something reported in this morning’s Metro newspaper. This was that the first people in the queue for Apple’s new iphone were using
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Why social mission organisations have no excuse for not paying interns

September 20, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Further to this post on the experience of interns, I thought it would be interesting to offer another first-hand view from someone who has been ‘interned’ (in their phrase). It’s by someone called Rob White and is on the nfpSynergy blog here. It’s really an arg
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Local Enterprise Partnerships to get core funding

September 19, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Local Growth Minister Mark Prisk announced on Monday that Local Enterprise Partnerships will receive modest core funding for the rest of this financial year, with a further £500K per LEP over the following two years. There is also the potential for further competitive funds to be made
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Why investing in the needs of pregnant women needs to be the focus of family policy

September 14, 2012
by Alun Severn
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There’s an interesting post over on the Gateway Family Services blog by Vicki Fitzgerald, Gateway’s chief exec. Vicki argues that their experience in providing pregnancy outreach services reveals numerous gaps in services and that these service failures contribute to exclu
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‘Social justice for all’ — impact of the new legal aid changes

September 13, 2012
by Alun Severn
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  The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment Offenders Act received Royal Assent in April 2012. This Act has huge implications for disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Birmingham and the region. On the 19th September 2012 from 6.30pm – 9.30pm, the Lunar Society, Birmingham Law So
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‘Get started in social enterprise’ — free one-day workshop

September 12, 2012
by Alun Severn
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iSE is offering a free one-day workshop on getting started in social enterprise – this is free to Birmingham residents. Click the graphic to go to the registration page.
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Roots HR celebrates 100th client

September 06, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Midlands based social enterprise Roots HR is celebrating this month after welcoming its 100th client to the organisation. Founded in 2009 by social entrepreneur Jan Golding, Roots HR is the UK’s first and only specialist HR provider for social enterprises and civil society organisatio
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Back from its ‘summer’ break — Social Enterprise Mentor is on the move again

September 05, 2012
by Alun Severn
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  Social Enterprise Mentor is back from the ‘Summer’ break  to bring you our popular brand of conversation, coffee and collaboration…plus a little bit of sunshine! Join us as we go on the move, with SEWM CIC and our sponsor Citizen Coaching CIC, to The Pump Cafe
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#notinourname?

September 05, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Recently, SEUK launched the #notinourname campaign to prevent software company Salesforce trademarking the term ‘social enterprise’. Salesforce wanted to use the term to identify businesses that use its social media software services and thus become “social” en
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