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SHIFT Programme: Economies that Everyone Can Shape

June 01, 2022

Birmingham, community, Economy, SHIFT Birmingham, social economy, training

Economy SHIFT Programme

A new training programme, Shift Birmingham, is open for applications. It’s for Birmingham people wish to explore how power and resources in the city can be rebalanced to improve local economies across the city. Birmingham faces many crises including housing, work, living s

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iSE CIC: SED22 Special

May 25, 2022

Birmingham, BSSEC, events, iSE CIC, networking, SED22, socent, social economy, social enterprise, Social Enterprise Drive, West Midlands, WMCA

Birmingham’s biggest festival showcasing social enterprise is coming 6th-10th of June and you can be part of it! Join Social Enterprise Drive to START a social enterprise, SCALE your business and CONNECT with social entrepreneurs and innovators. With social enterprise experience

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Project Aspie: Open Space Online opening up conversations

April 28, 2022

Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Birmingham, Covid, equality, mental health, neurodivergent, Open Space Online, pandemic, Project Aspie

As part of their response to the Covid-19 pandemic during the autumn of 2020, Project Aspie launched a new initiative called Open Space Online. Project Aspie is an award-winning organisation based in Birmingham that raises awareness and the profile of people with Autism within the com

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Social Enterprise Support Fund announces new round of grants to support COVID business recovery

March 09, 2022

The National Lottery Community Fund in conjunction with the Social Enterprise Support Fund has just announced a fresh round of grant funding offering sums from £10,000 to £100,000, with most grants likely to be between £10,000 and £50,000. Apologies for the short notice on this &

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Grant helps Citizen Coaching launch new ‘Citizen Navigator’ service

March 02, 2022

Birmingham-based counselling service and social enterprise Citizen Coaching is using a grant of £50,000 from the Social Enterprise Support Fund (via the Key Fund) to help launch a new service, Citizen Navigator. This new service is designed to signpost clients to other essential suppo

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Social value measurement made ‘transparent and democratic’?

February 22, 2022

There is an interesting post (Social value? All you have to do is ask — and now you can) over on the State of Life blog, somewhat over-excitedly welcoming what the organisation believes is a new dawn in the defining and democratisation of social value measurement arising fr

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Welcome Change CIC opens community hub in Lea Village

July 06, 2021

Councillor Marje Bridle has officially opened a new Community Hub in Lea Village in east Birmingham. The hub is run by BSSEC member, Welcome Change CIC. It has been supported by a grant of £500k from the National Lottery Community Fund, securing its future for the next five years. The

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Creative Active Lives CIC hosts online Variety Show — magic, music, mind reading & more

June 10, 2021

Creative Active Lives CIC creates exciting, engaging, inclusive workshops and events for all ages and abilities. Its next event is a very special online Variety Show for the over 65s on Thursday 8th July from 6.30pm-8.00pm. Director Rachel Conlisk says: This time around the theme is &

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Welcome Change CIC is recruiting — again…

September 07, 2020

Further to this earlier post… Following a successful bid to the Government’s Coronavirus Community Support Fund (distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund), Welcome Change CIC has a further vacancy at its Kitts Green Community Hub and is seeking a Project Support W

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Welcome Change CIC is recruiting

August 20, 2020

Following a successful bid to the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, Welcome Change CIC is seeking a Project Co-ordinator for its Community Hub in Kitts Green. Welcome Change CIC is seeking an enthusiastic and pro active individual to work on the development and delivery of activitie

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Birmingham City Council announces £0.8m community grants fund for groups helping children and families during pandemic

April 18, 2020

Birmingham City Council statement reads: Community, voluntary and faith groups who are helping children, young people and families through the challenges of Covid-19 are invited to apply for grants of up to £10,000 to continue supporting families through this difficult period.

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Coronavirus crisis — Claire Dove, VCSE Crown Representative, seeks VCSE views on sector support needs and responses

March 12, 2020

You may not know that Sarah Crawley now sits on the group convened by Claire Dove, the government’s VCSE Crown Representative. Claire’s role is to act as an intermediary between government and the voluntary, community & social enterprise sector, with a specific remit t

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Royal Society for Public Health launches new West Mids social investment fund for VCSE health & wellbeing providers

January 21, 2020

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) has just announced that it is launching a new social investment fund for the West Midlands aimed specifically at enabling voluntary and community sector and social enterprise (VCSE) health and wellbeing providers grow, scale-up and extend the

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John Taylor Hospice is holding an open evening for people interested in becoming volunteers

August 23, 2019

Volunteers are an essential part of the team at John Taylor Hospice (JTH), helping in the hospice itself, in its shops, in fundraising and with services like driving and wellbeing. JTH is looking to boost its current numbers of volunteers and is hosting a Volunteers Open Evening so th

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Healthwatch Birmingham receives national recognition and wins contract to continue providing service

July 03, 2019

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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New wellbeing portal launched to support Birmingham citizens

October 29, 2018

Birmingham residents who are looking for local activities, support and services that encourage wellbeing and an active and healthy lifestyle can now search a new online directory called Route2Wellbeing that describes over 1,500 local, community-based services and activities. This new

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John Taylor Hospice — great turn-out for opening of first shop

May 14, 2018

Back in January we wrote that John Taylor Hospice, the UK’s only social enterprise hospice, had unveiled its latest three-year strategic plan and that this included a commitment to open its first shop. Now that shop — the first in the hospice’s 100-year history – has

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Read what John Taylor Hospice’s ‘Gift a Christmas’ campaign means to one grateful family

December 18, 2017

John Taylor Hospice’s ‘Gift a Christmas’ appeal is running again this year and over on the JTH website you can read what this means to one grateful family — the Bloxhams — and why they consider it important to support the hospice in its fundraising effort

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PSIAMS Transforming Services for Children and Young People

October 30, 2017

Children and Young People, psiams, social impact

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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Health Exchange’s CEO Graham Beaumont announces retirement

October 06, 2017

Graham Beaumont, who many of you will know, has led Health Exchange since its emergence onto the scene ten years ago. Health Exchange CIC was established in 2007 to deliver a radically different, community-led model of health promotion – initially serving the multicultural and diverse

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