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National Lottery and partners announce £18.7m Social Enterprise Support Fund

July 13, 2020
by Alun Severn
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This terrific news, just in… The Social Enterprise Support Fund, a brand new £18.7m support fund for social enterprises, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK, has just opened and is taking applications now. The Social
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‘Recharge the West Midlands’ — does this offer the kind of economic, social and community recovery we all hoped to see?

July 07, 2020
by Alun Severn
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In earlier posts I have been trying to keep abreast of a variety of recovery planning initiatives, including recent proposals and reports. Up for consideration today is Recharge the West Midlands — Kickstarting the West Midlands Economy. This is West Midlands Combined Authority&
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PM asks Danny Kruger MP to review role of civil society during coronavirus crisis and ensure it is supported as part of recovery

June 29, 2020
by Alun Severn
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I’m indebted to an email from the Directory of Social Change for this item. Apparently, Danny Kruger MP (Devizes) has announced on his Twitter feed that the Prime Minister has asked him to work closely with Baroness Barran, the Minister for Civil Society in DCMS, to re
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Pressure for a fairer, greener, juster recovery increases

June 29, 2020
by Alun Severn
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Pressure is growing for an economic and social recovery that is fairer, more just, and greener. A recent YouGov poll reported in The Guardian indicates that just 6% of the public want to return to an unchanged ‘pre-pandemic’ economy. A recent letter to the government
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West Midlands may lose £280m in unspent Covid-19 grants for businesses

June 29, 2020
by Alun Severn
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There is an excellent piece on Dave Lane’s LinkedIn feed and on his consultancy website Development in Social Enterprise analysing recently released figures for grants made to businesses under the  Small Business Grants Fund (SBGF) and the Retail, Hospit
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Build back better — Bill Grimsey report on the future of town and city centres post-Covid-19

June 23, 2020
by Alun Severn
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Bill Grimsey has spent a lifetime at the top of retailing in the UK, Hong Kong and South Africa, during which time he regarded it as his mission ‘to clone every town in the UK with the same brands’. And he did, and in the process, as he readily acknowledges, he put paid to
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New body established to plan recovery of region’s cultural sector

June 17, 2020
by Alun Severn
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I’ll mention this here because it’s something I only found out about by accident. It may also have escaped the notice of some cultural, arts and creative enterprises. Culture Central is leading a new body responsible for planning the recovery of the West Midlands̵
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Locality report calls for communities to be at the heart of recovery planning

June 16, 2020
by Alun Severn
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In a recent post we wrote about a Covid-19 Social Economy Update published jointly by BSSEC, iSE and Birmingham Social Enterprise City.  We have been using this briefing paper to inform and influence key policy-makers and decision-makers — including Ministers — a
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