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ART pioneers new financing model to raise cash for small businesses

July 22, 2016
by Alun Severn
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ART Business Loans has joined forces with peer-to-peer business lender ThinCats to pilot a unique scheme to raise £500,000 to support local businesses. ThinCats — it’s the opposite of ‘fat cats’ — was established in 2011, partly as a response to the banki
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If you need free legal assistance on one-off issues you need LawWorks

July 15, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Are you a small not-for-profit organisation or social enterprise? Do you need free legal advice on a one-off issue? The charity LawWorks’ Not-For-Profits Programme helps connect volunteer solicitors with small not-for-profit organisations in need of legal advice. If a small charity, v
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Recovery Central announces Paul McMullan ‘Alcopops’ show

July 15, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Recovery Central is delighted to announce that the one and only Paul McMullan has agreed to premier his Alcopop stand up at the charity’s first dry bar event at Recovery Central before performing at the Edinburgh Festival. Paul has agreed to donate all the proceeds to the work b
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‘Celebrate’ — Big Lottery Fund announces new funding for communities

July 07, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Six out of ten people surveyed in a recent YouGov poll said they had never or couldn’t remember ever coming together to celebrate with their community. Big Lottery Fund wants to help change this. Its new Celebrate fund offers grants of between £300 and £10,000 for groups to hold
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Free corporate consultancy for VCOs, charities and social enterprises

July 06, 2016
by Alun Severn
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In conjunction with National Grid, Volunteering Matters is currently delivering a volunteering project called Good Leaders, which was launched in 2014. The project matches National Grid volunteers with the leaders of not-for-personal-profit organisations to enable them to receive free
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Social Impact Bonds — the first six years

July 06, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Social Finance has today launched Social Impact Bonds: The Early Years, a new report covering the progress of the Social Impact Bond market in the six years since its inception with the Peterborough criminal justice system SIB. To date, sixty SIBs have launched in fifteen countries, r
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Social value in health — it doesn’t have to be complicated

July 05, 2016
by Alun Severn
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We wrote in this recent post about the slow progress being made in health commissioning to embrace social value. As ever, we were reminded today that the health sector is so diverse and so complex that the picture you get of social value depends very much on where you look. While prog
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Government announces £80m ‘Life Chances Fund’

July 04, 2016
by Alun Severn
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The Cabinet Office has just today announced that as part of the Prime Minister’s life chances strategy a new £80m Life Chances Fund has been opened and will continue for the next nine years. The fund is described as a “top-up fund” for locally developed Social Impact
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