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Changes UK — warehouse furniture clearance this Saturday

May 30, 2018
by Alun Severn
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This coming Saturday, 2nd June, from 10am-4pm, Changes UK is holding a furniture clearance. A furniture recycling project it was hosting has closed and everything must go! Everything is FREE but donations are requested. It’s going to be a fantastic day. There will be Changes UK
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John Taylor Hospice — great turn-out for opening of first shop

May 14, 2018
by Alun Severn
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Back in January we wrote that John Taylor Hospice, the UK’s only social enterprise hospice, had unveiled its latest three-year strategic plan and that this included a commitment to open its first shop. Now that shop — the first in the hospice’s 100-year history – has
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The changing face of social enterprise — creating social value through inter-trading

May 10, 2018
by Alun Severn
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We wrote recently about Graduate Planet CIC in one of our ‘changing face of social enterprise‘ stories. It’s a new-start social enterprise recruitment consultancy which uses its surpluses to support environmental action. Its founder Kate Evans was one of the spe
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Social mobility and poverty in the UK: How responsible business can respond — BITC event

May 09, 2018
by Alun Severn
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You are warmly invited to Business in the Community’s next West Midlands event, which is being hosted by Coventry University. The event is aimed at businesses, community groups, educational establishments and public-sector organisations to encourage an inclusive and wide-ranging debat
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