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Virtual networking event for social enterprises in the health and wellbeing sector

January 27, 2022
by Alun Severn
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iSE is offering another free online networking event for social enterprises and trading third sector organisations — this time, for those active in the health and wellbeing sector. Date and time: Wednesday 23rd February 2022 • 10:00am-11:30am.    → Book your
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Gateway Family Services is recruiting…

September 23, 2020
by Alun Severn
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It’s good to see positive news at the present time — Gateway Family Services CIC is recruiting to the following positions: Link Worker Vacancy – Birmingham: Social Prescribing Link Worker A rewarding opportunity for a Social Prescribing Link Worker to focus on ‘what m
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Accord Group emergency volunteering roles to support vulnerable residents — update

June 03, 2020
by Alun Severn
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The Accord Group is one of the largest housing and social care organisations in the Midlands, providing 13,000 affordable homes and health and social care to 80,000 people and employing nearly 4,000. In the first few days of April Accord was appealing for emergency volunteers to suppo
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New report examines a community-based micro-enterprise model in adult social care

May 22, 2020
by Alun Severn
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The Covid-19 crisis has shone a spotlight on the social care sector — on every aspect, from sessional home care support to the most expensive residential nursing care and everything in between. The shrill outrage we are currently hearing from many politicians about social care b
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How one social enterprise is planning to be part of the post-virus recovery

April 28, 2020
by Alun Severn
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Martin Hogg, founder and chief executive of Citizen Coaching, the counselling social enterprise, has tried various approaches over recent years to grow and scale-up the business. ‘We’ve always reinvested in the business,’ he says, ‘but this alone was never enou
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John Taylor Hospice celebrates 110 years of care

January 02, 2020
by Alun Severn
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Birmingham’s John Taylor Hospice this year celebrates an incredible 110th anniversary – marking more than a century of caring for local people. One of the oldest hospices in the country, John Taylor was founded in 1910 by the people of Birmingham who fundraised to provide a ‘home of r
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Healthwatch Birmingham is recruiting

August 12, 2019
by Alun Severn
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Are you passionate about helping Birmingham citizens by tackling inequality in the health and social care system? There are currently a number of opportunities to join Healthwatch Birmingham’s team and the commencement of the organisation’s new contract, along with major c
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Healthwatch Birmingham receives national recognition and wins contract to continue providing service

July 03, 2019
by Alun Severn
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Healthwatch Birmingham, the independent champion representing public and patients’ experiences of using local health and social care services, has just published its Annual Report 2018/2019. The report details the organisation’s most successful year to date: 59% more peopl
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Share your memories of John Taylor Hospice

April 04, 2018
by Alun Severn
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John Taylor Hospice, the UK’s only social enterprise hospice, has just launched an appeal for stories, reminiscences and memories from people who have some prior connection with the hospice. For more than 100 years JTH has helped and supported thousands of families and employed
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John Taylor Hospice unveils plan to extend services, increase volunteering and launch JTH shops

January 02, 2018
by Alun Severn
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John Taylor Hospice, the UK’s only social enterprise hospice, has just unveiled its latest three-year strategic plan. This sees the organisation planning to increase and widen its community engagement and volunteering programmes; maximise income from commercial services, donatio
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PSIAMS Transforming Services for Children and Young People

October 30, 2017
by Alun Severn
Children and Young People, psiams, social impact
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PSIAMS Systems Limited is a software and IT social enterprise that focusses on whole system solutions to help improve services delivery in the VCSE Sector. Recently, the PSIAMS team have been developing a range of solutions for organisations that support Children and Young People (CYP
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Social care as a local economic solution in the West Midlands — new report from Localise WM & NEF

August 21, 2017
by Alun Severn
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Localise West Midlands and the New Economics Foundation have just published a new report called Social Care as a Local Economic Solution in the West Midlands. The report argues that rather than viewing social care primarily as a problem, innovative new policy perspectives should
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PSIAMS Scoops Prestigious Healthcare Innovation Award

July 24, 2017
by Alun Severn
psiams, social enterprise, social impact
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PSIAMS Systems has won a prestigious award celebrating the very best of innovation in healthcare around the West Midlands. PSIAMS was given the gong in the Social Enterprise category of the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN)’s second annual Celebration of Innovatio
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The changing face of social enterprise — Inside Outcomes

July 17, 2017
by Alun Severn
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Inside Outcomes began life as a private consultancy, owned by Darren Wright, offering client-management software solutions along with support and training for organisations looking for ways to record and demonstrate the improved outcomes their clients achieved from the services they a
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“Promising Practice” — NHS England publishes paper on STPs and the third sector

April 03, 2017
by Alun Severn
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We’ve written extensively about health and social value on this blog, and more recently, with specific reference to Birmingham and Solihull, have been exploring the role that NHS sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) should be playing in helping to embed socia
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Transformation and Social Value: Social Prescribing Keynote

March 25, 2017
by Alun Severn
Dudley, NHS, psiams, social enterprise, Social Prescribing
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PSIAMS Systems will be hosting a data focussed conference during City Drive Week in Birmingham. The event will feature a range of presentations and workshops on how data is transforming the way the Voluntary and Social Enterprise Sector are responding to change and the needs of commis
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Transformation & Social Value Event – 5th April 2017

February 20, 2017
by Alun Severn
NHS, psiams, social impact, social value
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Transformation and Social Value taking place in Birmingham on 5th April 2017 is an opportunity to hear from the charities leaders and social enterprises in the West Midlands who have embraced new technology and data to empower their organisations to work differently and demonstrate th
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West Midlands Academic Health Science Network — ‘Celebration of Innovation’ awards now open

February 15, 2017
by Alun Severn
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West Midlands Academic Health Science Network’s (WMAHSN) annual Celebration of Innovation Awards will be formally launched today (15 February) at the Merdian LIVE event. Following on from the success of last year’s awards — which saw more than 80 entries from ac
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Save Our Support plans second lobby against cuts to services for most vulnerable

February 01, 2017
by Alun Severn
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Birmingham Changing Futures Together is one of the organisations co-ordinating opposition to the cuts currently planned for the city’s various Supporting people services (see earlier post). It has just issued the following statement: I am writing to you asking for your support f
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The Relate Macmillan Counselling Service — for those living with or affected by cancer

January 05, 2017
by Alun Severn
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Macmillan Cancer Support and Relate have teamed up to provide a new, free counselling service for families living with cancer. The number of people surviving and living with cancer is increasing. In Birmingham and the Black Country alone over 5,000 people a year are  diagnosed wi
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