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The Women’s Enterprise Hub is recruiting…

March 10, 2020

The Women’s Enterprise Hub, Sparkbrook, which is operated by iSE, is recruiting. This, just in: iSE seeks experienced Centre Manager to continue the success of its Sparkbrook Women’s Enterprise HUB iSE is seeking an experienced Centre Manager to continue the success of our Spark

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It feels as if City Drive 2020 has already started

March 09, 2020

UPDATE 16/03/20: All City Drive 2020 events cancelled due to the threat posed by Covid-19 — read announcement At least, that was the case on Thursday afternoon, the 5th of March. Sarah Crawley, our dear friend Ian Cuthbert of Cuthbert Design and myself were busy at iSE — a

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iSE announces women’s FUSE programme now open for applications

February 28, 2020

iSE has just announced that its women’s FUSE programme is now open for 2020 applications. Delivered with HSBC, the FUSE programme helps women in the West Midlands who want to start social enterprises. See below. Please note booking is essential. To book send mail to Ashleigh How

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iSE is recruiting a new chief executive

February 25, 2020

Further to this post, iSE’s recruitment exercise for a Chief Executive Officer to replace Sarah Crawley has begun. Make no mistake, jobs of this calibre do not come along every day in the social enterprise sector in Birmingham. Click on the graphic below to download the PDF Cand

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Women’s Enterprise Hub — come to the Winter Fayre open day

November 19, 2019

iSE has just announced that the Women’s Enterprise Hub will be holding a Winter Fayre Open Day — details are below. → BOOK YOUR FREE PLACE Date And Time Wed, 18 December 2019 10:00 – 14:00 GMT Women’s Enterprise Hub 249 A Ladypool Road Birmingham B12 8LF Or for

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Puzzled by how to use LinkedIn to support your enterprise? Then the next DSEQ network meeting is for you

September 23, 2019

If using the professionals’ networking platform LinkedIn to help your social enterprise grow is all a bit of a mystery, then make sure you don’t miss the next Digbeth Social Enterprise Quarter networking session on Tuesday 8th October, 8.30am – 10.30am. Whether you a

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iSE announces workshops promoting supplier opportunities in the built environment marketplace

September 23, 2019

iSE announces the following… Tim Landreth (ISE) has been beavering away at finding opportunities for you to work on some of the major projects and with some of the major clients in the region. To support you accessing these opportunities, ISE is holding a series of workshops to

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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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