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Visual Storytelling: Showcase your Impact

July 26, 2022
by Sallie Ryan
BSSEC, charity, community, Fovea Creative, Ian Cuthbert, photovoice, social enterprise, West Midlands, West Midlands Combined Authority, WMCA
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Fovea Creative
WELCOME TO OUR GUEST BLOG FROM IAN CUTHBERT Ian is the founder of Fovea Creative, a creative agency previously known as Cuthbert Design Since 1996, Ian has been supporting the social enterpise sector with stimulating graphic design and increasingly through his passion for the medium o
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Citizen Click spins out as a new, independent CIC

November 03, 2021
by Alun Severn
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Anyone who has read either the BSSEC website or blog over the past decade or so will be familiar with the website design work of social enterprise Citizen Click. This is because Citizen Click undertook a complete redesign of our website in 2012, helping us to salvage everything we wan
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HUB 109 announces business networking event in partnership with NatWest

May 15, 2019
by Alun Severn
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We’ve written before about Erdington’s new managed workspace venue, HUB 109 before on this blog — here and here.  Founder Sean Alimajstorovic has just announced that a series of business networking events in partnership with NatWest will be taking place, startin
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City Drive — New Start Stories event: great ideas, determination and an extraordinary personal story

April 09, 2019
by Alun Severn
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When we trailed last night’s New Start Stories event at Evolve @ The Adam & Eve we said “expect open, frank conversation and stimulating insights”. We were not disappointed. Indeed, one of the stories we heard caused an audible collective gasp from the audie
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Graduate Planet CIC funds pioneering environmental workshop for 60 schoolchildren

March 19, 2019
by Alun Severn
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We’ve written before here about Graduate Planet CIC, the specialist social enterprise recruitment consultancy which uses its surpluses to support environmental action. Its founder Kate Evans recently worked with energy data specialists SPS International in Warwick to help the co
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New CIC opens its doors on Erdington High St — HUB 109 has great ambitions

February 11, 2019
by Alun Severn
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A new Community Interest Company has opened its doors at 109 High Street, Erdington, and is busy combining serviced and hot desking space, business incubation support, business consultancy and social benefit. It is called HUB 109 and its founder Sean Alimajstorovic has been explaining
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Keeping swimming open at Moseley Road Baths — this historic Edwardian pool is now run by a community-managed charity

February 11, 2019
by Alun Severn
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There are only three Grade II* listed swimming baths in the country still in use for public swimming and of these Birmingham’s Moseley Road Baths, an Edwardian time capsule which first opened its doors to the public in 1907, is the oldest. It has been saved as a result of a determined
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The changing face of social enterprise — Crafting4Good CIC

July 19, 2018
by Alun Severn
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Today, as part of our continuing series of changing face of social enterprise stories we look at something very different — a very small, very young social enterprise with a brilliantly simple business idea that deserves to succeed. The government estimates that the market for c
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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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The changing face of social enterprise — TRiM (Transforming Running into Mindfulness)

April 27, 2018
by Alun Severn
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Today, as part of our continuing series of stories illustrating the changing face of social enterprise we look at something very different — a new health and wellbeing enterprise that aims to use running as a means of improving students’ mental health.  A Birmingham-b
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Who starts new social enterprises and why? Three recent new-starts told us their extraordinary stories

April 24, 2018
by Alun Severn
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For nine months or so now, as part of an Awards for All funded project, we have been documenting the changing face of social enterprise by covering the stories of newer, younger social enterprises that are new on the scene. What’s it like to start a new social enterprise in the
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There’s still time to feature in our coverage of newer, younger social enterprises

April 09, 2018
by Alun Severn
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As part of our Big Lottery ‘Awards for All’ project we’re still on the hunt for interesting news stories from newer, younger social enterprises that will help illustrate new, changing and emerging trends in the sector.  We’ve been posting these stories on
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New-start stories: the unvarnished truth — 23rd April, 5-7pm, Evolve @ The Adam & Eve

April 09, 2018
by Alun Severn
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It’s extremely hard for new social enterprises to find a time and place to discuss shared problems, reflect on their experiences, have a good natter — and if needs be let off steam. We thought it would be a good idea to sponsor a City Drive event which we hope will offer j
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New-start stories: the unvarnished truth — 23rd April, 5-7pm, Evolve @ The Adam & Eve

March 28, 2018
by Alun Severn
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Since July of last year, as part of an Awards for All funded project BSSEC been searching out and publishing the stories of newer, younger social enterprises. We have called these stories the changing face of social enterprise. The reason for doing this was two-fold. First, the sector
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The changing face of social enterprise — Evolve @ The Adam & Eve

March 19, 2018
by Alun Severn
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Today, in our continuing series the changing face of social enterprise, we look at Evolve @ The Adam & Eve. Read on to find out how an old Victorian boozer is being given a new lease of life — and a new social purpose. There has been a pub called the Adam & Eve on the co
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The changing face of social enterprise — Chelmund’s Fish & Chips

February 27, 2018
by Alun Severn
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It isn’t often we get the chance to cover the story of a new community-owned social enterprise literally on the eve of its opening. It is even less often that that new enterprise is a fish and chip shop! A community owned chip shop? Yes, it seems unlikely. But then when you thin
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We’re still on the look-out for newer, younger social enterprises with an interesting story to tell

January 31, 2018
by Alun Severn
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As part of our Big Lottery ‘Awards for All’ project we’re still on the hunt for interesting news stories from newer, younger social enterprises that will help illustrate new, changing and emerging trends in the sector.  We’ve been posting these stories on
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The changing face of social enterprise — Impact Hub Birmingham

January 09, 2018
by Alun Severn
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For the last two and a half years, a repurposed factory in Digbeth – the creative heart of the city and Brum’s first officially recognised Social Enterprise Quarter – has been home to a new player in social enterprise: Impact Hub Birmingham. Impact Hub Birmingham is part innovation la
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The changing face of social enterprise — YMCA Birmingham

January 04, 2018
by Alun Severn
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If you were to ask people to name an important new player in the social enterprise sector, I’m not sure that YMCA Birmingham would necessarily be the first name that would come to mind. But this just shows how outdated our views about ‘charities’ sometimes are. As pa
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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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