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Social Investment – the Ongoing Debate

January 26, 2015

ART, Aston Reinvestment Trust, Big Society Capital, Community Development Finance Institution, social enterprise, social investment

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The BSSEC blog dated 14th January Gerrymandering Social Enterprise, linked to an interesting article summarised well by Alun Severn, is clearly only part of the increasing debate about social investment/social finance and the social enterprise sector. As ART probably led the way in th

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Big Lottery Fund announces ‘Power to Change’ endowment of £150m

January 22, 2015

by Alun Severn

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The Big Lottery Fund has just announced that it has endowed £150m to the new trust set up to run Power to Change, the new fund supporting community enterprises. The announcement coincides with the publication of a new report on the community enterprise sector published by Social Finan

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Lord Young review of social value legislation

January 22, 2015

by Alun Severn

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Some little while back we mentioned in this post that implementation of the social value legislation has been reviewed by a cross-parliamentary group led by the government’s advisor on enterprise, Lord Young. The public consultation ran from 24/10/14 to 28/11/14. The gov.

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“Gerrymandering social enterprise”

January 14, 2015

by Alun Severn

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There are people…who are trying ever so hard to ‘gerrymander’ the word Social – separate it from the word enterprise, better still kill it off altogether… There’s a very interesting and provocative piece over on the Can Cook — The Food Campaign blog about ̵

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