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Steve Dixon, Changes UK CEO, named Barclay’s national social entrepreneur of the year 2021

October 25, 2021
by Alun Severn
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Ground-breaking, Birmingham-based recovery charity Changes UK has just announced that Steve Dixon, its founder and CEO, has won Barclays’ National Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2021.  The awards celebrate UK entrepreneurs for their exceptional innovation in creating
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Changes UK is recruiting

August 10, 2018
by Alun Severn
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Birmingham’s fastest growing recovery charity, Changes UK, which is making great strides in  helping establish user-led social enterprises as part of its support programmes, is recruiting. There are three vacancies: Social Enterprise Manager Location: Recovery Central, 9 Al
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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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‘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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The changing face of social enterprise — Changes Gardening

July 10, 2017
by Alun Severn
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We’ve written about Changes UK, the Digbeth-based recovery charity before on this blog. Since moving into Birmingham just a few years ago, the organisation is well on the way to realising its ambition of making this city the capital of recovery services. But what does a drug and
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New £1m ‘Recovery Central’ will make Birmingham the recovery capital of the UK

April 26, 2016
by Alun Severn
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  Changes UK, a charity and community interest company founded less than ten years ago, is well on the way to realising its ambitious vision of making Birmingham the capital for recovery from addiction. Changes UK has successfully developed and secured Public Health England fundi
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