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Next round of ESIF calls will be mid-July

May 28, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Greater Birmingham & Solihull LEP has just announced that the next round of calls for European Structural and Invest Funds proposals will be mid-July. GBSLEP says: These will be national calls with a ‘local bias’. For the GBSLEP area, the calls will be for ERDF, including the Prio
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Birmingham lifestyle services consultation

May 22, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Care charity Freshwinds is working with Public Health Birmingham in conducting the ‘Birmingham Lifestyle services Consultation’. Public Health recognises that Lifestyle Services are essential to improving the health and wellbeing of Birmingham citizens and this consultation is an oppo
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SEUK to buy out SEWM

May 21, 2015
by Alun Severn
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        I suspect many will read with some sadness the report in Third Sector today that Social Enterprise West Midlands is to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of SEUK. Businesses — including social enterprises — sometimes have to do whatever is most likely to gu
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UnLtd publishes free legal guides for social entrepreneurs

May 18, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Working in conjunction with global law firm DLA Piper, UnLtd has just published fourteen free legal guides aimed specifically at social entrepreneurs. You can read them all here. “Whether you’re a social entrepreneur just starting out on a new venture or you need to protect area
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Help position the Birmingham city region — locally, internationally, globally

May 14, 2015
by Alun Severn
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  How do you tell the ‘story’ of something as amorphous as a ‘city region’ in a way that will appeal equally to the new inward investor, the young family looking for affordable housing and family-family neighbourhoods, entrepreneurs looking for the best pl
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Social enterprise — stairway to heaven?

May 14, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Today we have a guest article by our old colleague Simon Lee, who left Brum for the glamour and riches of London. Simon has written a paper in which he argues that in a climate of continuing public spending cuts,  social enterprises will have to scale-up if they are to compete success
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North Birmingham – new programme of support for social enterprise

May 13, 2015
by Alun Severn
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For anyone interested in starting a social enterprise, iSE is holding free workshops in Erdington to support you. In the first workshop “Starting Your Social Enterprise” we will take a look at what a social enterprise is, how to start it and consider the wealth of funding and finance
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Power to Change announces “initial grants programme” criteria

May 01, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Further to this post, Power to Change, the new Big Lottery-backed fund supporting community businesses in England, has just announced that the criteria for what it is calling its first “initial grants programme”. “The initial grants programme see will up to £9m of gr
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Active Communities programme for Birmingham offers grants for work in addressing health inequalities

May 01, 2015
by Alun Severn
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This, just in from the North West Birmingham Development Agency… The People’s Health Trust has opened its Active Communities programme with a focus on creating a society without health inequalities through investing in people with great ideas for creating fairer places to grow,
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