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Free LinkedIn workshop with Citizen Click at The Women’s Enterprise Hub 17/09/19 — open to all

July 31, 2019

The Women’s Enterprise Hub is offering a free mixed workshop on how to use LinkedIn effectively as a tool in your business. Please note that booking is essential — send mail to Ashleigh Howe or ring 0121 663 1711. The workshop will be delivered by social enterprise Citizen

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Breakfast briefing — social enterprise applications to the Queen’s Enterprise Award for Sustainable Development

July 24, 2019

8.30am – 10.00am on Thursday 15th August iSE, Avoca Court, 23 Moseley Road, Digbeth Birmingham B12 0HJ iSE has just announced that it will host a breakfast briefing to support social enterprises seeking to apply to the Queen’s Enterprise Award for Sustainable Development. C

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Business growth planning workshop for women at the Women’s Enterprise Hub

July 10, 2019

iSE has just announced that in conjunction with HSBC it is offering a free business growth planning workshop for women — details below. Booking essential, please – by email to Ashleigh Howe.

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Explaining Birmingham’s social economy

June 17, 2019

Last week, Simon Veasey from ISE and myself did our bit for international relations. We were asked by Bridging to the Future’s MD Duncan Chamberlain to help give an overview of social enterprise and the wider social economy in Birmingham to a group of 26 educators, students

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‘Place-based investing for impact’ — report published

June 10, 2019

This year City Drive 2019 included an event called Impact Investing for Place which considered new trends in place-based social investment and social economy development. The event was kindly sponsored by Big Society Capital, chaired by its Social Sector Engagement Director, Melanie M

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Please help by giving iSE some feedback on City Drive 2019

May 29, 2019

Rebecca Giannelli at iSE has just been in touch to say: CITY DRIVE once again proved to be the biggest social enterprise event in Birmingham’s calendar, with 18 events taking place all over the city. Here at iSE we thoroughly enjoyed what was a non-stop week showcasing Birmingham as a

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Contract opportunity — iSE and partners seek consultancy support for USE-IT project legacy

May 22, 2019

iSE and partners are seeking a consultant to support the project steering group to develop and implement a strategy for the USE-IT Project legacy, which is the focus of Work Package 7. This consultancy work is to commence from 24th June 2019 and complete by 20th December 2019. It is e

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iSE and the Social Enterprise Academy announce new leadership development programme

March 26, 2019

iSE has just announced that it is working in partnership with The Social Enterprise Academy to deliver a new regional leadership development programme that has been designed by and for the social enterprise sector. The programme is designed to provide practical opportunities to explor

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iSE and USE IT! programme seek social enterprise work placements

March 19, 2019

iSE’s business development manager, Simon Veasey is keen to hear from social enterprises that can offer local unemployed people the opportunity to undertake work placements with employers that have a strong social mission. Read what he has to say below. Simon Veasey writes: One

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City Drive 2019 — social enterprise conference: 8th April

March 11, 2019

→ UPDATE: The full City Drive programme is now available. City Drive 2019 kicks off in grand style this year with a Social Enterprise Conference. The conference theme is exploring new business ideas that maximise social impact. Details WHEN: 8th April 2019, 9.00am registration,

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Hold the dates — for these very special City Drive events

March 04, 2019

Hold the dates for these very special City Drive 2019 events… WHAT: Jewellery Quarter Music Walk WHEN: Wed, 10 April 2019, 11am to 1pm; COST: £5.92 (inc booking fee) WHERE: Jewellery Quarter, 16 Frederick St, Birmingham B1 3HE Join Jez Collins, founder of the Birmingham Music Ar

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City Drive 2019 — You are invited to ‘New-Start Stories’

March 01, 2019

Further to this post, you are warmly invited to ‘New Start Stories’, sponsored by BSSEC and held as part of City Drive. Come and hear from four very different new starts and find out what starting a social enterprise is really like… Light refreshments will be served.

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iSE’s start-up programme FUSE is back for 2019

December 20, 2018

iSE is seeking its next cohort of social change-makers, do-ers, entrepreneurs and innovators to join FUSE, its acclaimed start-up programme. Could it be you? FUSE offers six months of free business support and includes workshops, coaching and mentoring. For more information send mail

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Fuse — social enterprise start-up support

August 02, 2018

iSE runs a number of different FUSE social enterprise start-up programmes throughout the year. The programmes are for people who want to develop a business that is financially sustainable but also (and importantly) delivers a strong and measurable social impact. The Fuse is for social

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iSE announces FUSE social enterprise Summer Camp

June 14, 2018

iSE runs a number of different FUSE social enterprise start-up programmes throughout the year. The programmes are for people who want to develop a business that is financially sustainable but also (and importantly) delivers a strong and measurable social impact. Its Summer Camp is for

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100s of guests and over 50 exhibitors celebrate recognition of Birmingham as a social enterprise city

April 27, 2018

UPDATED 14th June 2018: More coverage of this event and Birmingham’s Social Enterprise ~City achievement HERE. Today, the final day of City Drive 2018, also marked Birmingham’s successful bid to be recognised as a Social Enterprise City and it saw the city’s social e

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What does a social enterprise consultant do all day?

April 04, 2018

If you have ever wondered what a social enterprise consultant does all day, there is a terrific post over on the iSE website by Elizabeth Forrester which will satisfy your curiosity. From fine-tuning business models to developing marketing strategies; from financial planning to confid

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Mentors play a special role in the USE IT programme — and iSE wants to recruit more

February 12, 2018

For the past 12 months iSE has been working on an innovative new project, USE IT! (Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together). We’ve written about the programme extensively elsewhere on this blog, most recently in this post. One of the lessons of the USE IT programm

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iSE takes on interns to map social enterprise tourism opportunities in USE IT area

January 31, 2018

For the past 12 months iSE has been working on an innovative new project, USE IT! (Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together). We’ve written about the programme extensively elsewhere on this blog, most recently in this post. iSE has just announced that it has n

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Social entrepreneurs and USE IT — catalysing social change in Birmingham

January 24, 2018

For the past 12 months iSE has been working on an innovative new project, USE IT! (Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together). ISE’s role in this three-year project, funded by ERDF as part of the UIA programme, is to work in Ladywood, Handsworth and Smethwick to grow the socia

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