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BSSEC publishes eighth annual report

July 28, 2020
by Alun Severn
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For many, 2020 will for ever be associated with the coronavirus crisis, despite the fact that the full scale and implications of the pandemic only became evident as the financial year drew to a close. But much of the year — had we only recognised it at the time — now seems
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BSSEC publishes seventh annual report

June 19, 2019
by Alun Severn
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We are very pleased to publish our seventh annual report. There has been excellent news in the 2018/19 financial year, but there was awful news too. First, the good news. In April 2018 it was confirmed that Birmingham’s application to be recognised as a ‘social enterprise city’ under
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BSSEC publishes sixth annual report

August 22, 2018
by Alun Severn
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We’re very pleased to publish our sixth annual report covering the financial year 1st April 2017 to 31st March 2018. We have continued to support and promote City Drive, annual celebration of social enterprise in Birmingham, which has gone from strength to strength, thanks large
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BSSEC publishes fifth Annual Report

October 16, 2017
by Alun Severn
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We are delighted to publish our fifth Annual Report since incorporating as a Community Interest Company in 2012 – although it is now seventeen years since BSSEC was first established. It continues to be very difficult for new-start social enterprises to access free specialist business
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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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