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Human Library Birmingham offers free mentoring for SE leaders & founders in WM

March 30, 2021
by Alun Severn
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iSE, which manages the Human Lending Library initiative for Birmingham has just announced the following: Free mentoring offer for SE leaders and founders in the WM from the Human Lending Library Birmingham The Human Lending Library provides access to high-value mentoring for social en
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HUB109 announces ‘Future High Street’ platform — an open call for opinion, ideas and collaboration

March 29, 2021
by Alun Severn
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We’ve written about Erdington’s HUB109 a couple of times on this blog (here and here). HUB109 is Erdington’s managed workspace and business incubator. Founder Sean Alimajstorovic has just announced that HUB109 CIC is launching something called Future High Street. Its
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City Drive is back — now rebranded Social Enterprise Drive 21, packed with events, fully online

March 18, 2021
by Alun Severn
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With 21 online events over five days from 19th-23rd April, Social Enterprise Drive 2021 (the rebranded City Drive) is back for its eighth year, celebrating social enterprise in Birmingham and beyond. While tirelessly organised as ever by the team at iSE, Social Enterprise Drive couldn
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‘Transforming Public Procurement’ Green Paper — consultation ends 10th March

March 04, 2021
by Alun Severn
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I wrote some while back about the publication of the Government’s Green Paper, Transforming Public Procurement. I was reminded today (thank you, Sarah Crawley) that the consultation on these proposed changes closes on the 10th March. If, like me, you are struggling to fully unde
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ChangeKitchen builds on supper club success

March 02, 2021
by Alun Severn
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Further to this post, ChangeKitchen CIC has announced that it is building on the success of its Valentine’s Day click+collect suppers — each order included a donated ‘community meal’ — by launching a new and similarly arranged supper club. The Social Supp
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