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Santander launches £2.5m small grants programme

March 22, 2016
by Alun Severn
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The Santander Foundation — Santander’s community grants and funding arm — has just been relaunched as The Discovery Foundation with a new £2.5m programme of small grants of up to £5,000 for charities, CICs, voluntary and community groups and social enterprises. The g
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Health — where’s the social value?

March 17, 2016
by Alun Severn
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UPDATE 04/04/16: Further to the post below, we now have a survey online aimed specifically at health commissioners and practitioners. It only takes a few minutes to complete. If you are able to pass this link on to health colleagues that you know this would be much appreciated. Many t
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Patients are the stars

March 09, 2016
by Alun Severn
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John Taylor Hospice, the first social enterprise hospice in the UK, is launching a promotional campaign in which patients, carers and staff are the stars. Under the slogan, “We believe end of life isn’t the end of living,” the hospice is using advertising on buses, b
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Rewriting the rules of opera

March 08, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Birmingham Opera Company, under artistic director, Graham Vick, was born of a passion and a belief that opera — often seen as elitist, costly and inaccessible — can be a community art that speaks directly to all kinds of people. The company doesn’t have an “ope
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The People’s Orchestra celebrates fourth birthday

March 07, 2016
by Alun Severn
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The West Midlands’ only community orchestra, The People’s Orchestra, is celebrating its fourth birthday with a gala concert at West Bromwich Town Hall on the 16th April 2016, from 7pm. For more information about The People’s Orchestra go here and to book for the conc
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Making the Cut

March 01, 2016
by Alun Severn
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For two years now equality and human rights charity brap has been investigating the impact of public spending cuts in Birmingham. Its project Making the Cut looks at the impact austerity measures are having on both people and the organisations providing the services they need. It exam
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