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What are the implications of the NHS’s ‘STPs’?

August 30, 2016
by Alun Severn
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NHS Sustainability & Transformation Plans (STPs) have finally hit the headlines (BBC News; The Guardian; I News). Up until a few weeks ago they seemed to be almost unheard of. STPs were first announced by NHS England in a December 2015 report called Delivering the Forward View: NH
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BSSEC publishes fourth Annual Report

August 25, 2016
by Alun Severn
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We’re delighted to be publishing our fourth annual report since incorporating as a CIC in 2012. Of course our activities significantly predate that: we first began life as an informal consortium in 2000, so this year marks sixteen years spent keeping social enterprise at the top
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Can you help create a five-acre forest garden?

August 22, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Forest of Hearts is a new charitable social enterprise (a CIO) creating a five-acre forest garden close to the site of the former Snitterfield WWII RAF training camp, in Warwickshire, three miles from Stratford. Forest gardens build on centuries-old methods of woodland husbandry to pr
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Importance of Data: ICO Annual Track 2016

August 16, 2016
by Mark Ellerby
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Data is an essential part of any charity or social enterprise’s work and it’s important that data is kept organised, safe and secure, but how do the general public feel about their data? In the latest ICO Annual Track (2016) survey the public report that National Health is one o
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UnLtd offers co-working spaces for social entrepreneurs

August 16, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Are you working alone? Finding it difficult to network, meet like-minded people and potential collaborators? UnLtd is offering social entrepreneurs the chance to access various co-working spaces free of charge, to create stronger local communities, and reduce isolation. → Register you
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