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‘Screw the business plan — give me jobs’: Changes Gardening’s James Coote on growing a successful service user-led enterprise

December 20, 2017
by Alun Severn
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The Manager of the Changes Gardening service, James Coote, doesn’t give a damn about the business plan. For James it’s all about recovery. Lots of community groups run gardening projects to help with people’s mental health. We can all understand that working with nature can be c
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Read what John Taylor Hospice’s ‘Gift a Christmas’ campaign means to one grateful family

December 18, 2017
by Alun Severn
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John Taylor Hospice’s ‘Gift a Christmas’ appeal is running again this year and over on the JTH website you can read what this means to one grateful family — the Bloxhams — and why they consider it important to support the hospice in its fundraising effort
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Digbeth Digital Christmas Market

December 13, 2017
by Alun Severn
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To celebrate the best of Birmingham and the best of Digbeth, iSE have collaborated with social enterprises in Digbeth and Birmingham to bring you some great Christmas offers from organisations with a social purpose. And here’s the special offers: Change Kitchen CIC is an award w
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Developing the social value agenda — social enterprises and strategic partners have many concerns in common

December 06, 2017
by Alun Severn
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Since 2012 BSSEC has been working to support practical implementation of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 — what has become known in shorthand simply as ‘social value’. This work has been made possible by financial support from The Barrow Cadbury Trust, which we gratefully
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Inside Outcomes CIC & Birmingham Innovation Engine team up for free GDPR workshop

December 04, 2017
by Alun Severn
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This, just in, from Darren Wright at Inside Outcomes CIC: * Following on from our blog post on how to get prepared for GDPR we’ve decided to turn advice into action and are holding a free workshop in conjunction with the Birmingham Innovation Engine Project to explain the implications
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University of Birmingham seeks social enterprises for new year workshops, speaker panels, internships

December 01, 2017
by Alun Severn
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Over the course of the next year, the University of Birmingham is planning several events that offer opportunities for local social enterprises as speakers, exhibitors and hosts of student interns. Here are the details as we have them at the moment. Hassana Ahmed, Enterprise Lead for
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The changing face of social enterprise — Age UK Warwickshire’s Re-Use outlets

December 01, 2017
by Alun Severn
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Many of the ‘Changing face of social enterprise’ stories we have so far covered as part of our Big Lottery ‘Awards for All’ project have been very new and very small social enterprises that are just starting out. What they have to tell us about the challen
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