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‘Get started in social enterprise’ — free one-day workshop

September 12, 2012
by Alun Severn
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iSE is offering a free one-day workshop on getting started in social enterprise – this is free to Birmingham residents. Click the graphic to go to the registration page.
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Shop for Change puts inter-trading firmly on the map

April 30, 2012
by Alun Severn
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We have covered Shop for Change on this blog before — here, for instance. But did you know that what started as a fairly modest idea to promote more inter-trading between social enterprises and third sector organisations in Birmingham has taken on truly national proportions? Wel
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Blogging from the Social Enterprise Exchange, Glasgow

March 27, 2012
by Alun Severn
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The team from iSE are at the Social Enterprise Exchange in sunny Glasgow. We arrived yesterday to glorious weather to set up our Shop for Change stand with the help of Harris and Harris Accountancy CIC, Textiles by St Annes, BVSC Conferencing. Fantastic networking last night at All Ba
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iSE’s first ‘pitch your wares’ event sets trend for the future

December 16, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Yesterday we held a first for us at iSE — a pitching and networking event for social enterprises to come along and tell others why they should buy their products and services. Each person had three minutes to tell their story and then feedback was invited from those assembled on
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Starting out in social enterprise?

December 12, 2011
by Alun Severn
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If you are just starting out in social enterprise then the three forthcoming training sessions just announced by iSE may well be just what you’re looking for. With sessions on starting a social enterprise, introducing legal structures, and business planning, these workshops all
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Social Enterprise Day @ iSE

November 17, 2011
by Alun Severn
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I joined around fifty other guests at iSE today for a lunch to celebrate Social Enterprise Day. It was lovely to meet up with so many friends, old and new. The iSE team made sure that everything went smoothly. The lunch — homemade soup, bread, fruit and some of the best homemade
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Social Enterprise Day — join iSE for lunch

October 20, 2011
by Alun Severn
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iSE is celebrating Social Enterprise Day on the 17th November 2011 with a free networking lunch for social entrepreneurs. Come along and hear about some of the new social enterprises that have developed in the past twelve months in Birmingham. Those of you who have been active in the
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iSE social enterprise networking event attracts new faces and new business

July 20, 2011
by Alun Severn
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iSE is celebrating the success of its second networking event held at Eastside Cafe in the heart of the Social Enterprise Zone of Digbeth on Thursday 7 July 2011, from 4-6pm. Everyone commented on how great it was to meet new faces and make new contacts — a number even got some
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Social enterprise goes guerrilla!

July 15, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Last night was a really amazing evening – not as you might think due to the fact that I have a really great social life but because I was invited to my first ever guerrilla event! This was pulled together by ‘Platform Birmingham’  which aims to bring together politicians, the media, c
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City social enterprise plans Barbados office

July 05, 2011
by Alun Severn
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A unique Birmingham social enterprise is planning to open a Caribbean office after joining a recent UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) Mission to Barbados to promote entrepreneurship on the island. Harris & Harris Accountancy Services was the first UK accountants to become a Community
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New social enterprise offers conferencing facilities from Digbeth’s growing SE hub

May 04, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Digbeth is truly becoming something of a hotspot for SEs in Birmingham. This has been covered a few times in recent posts on this blog. Well, we have just been alerted to another — Network House, a social enterprise set up less than eighteen months ago providing state of the art
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iSE announces 46 new social enterprise jobs created in SW Birmingham

April 18, 2011
by Alun Severn
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I’m really proud to be able to announce that through a recent Working Neighbourhoods-funded project, the South West Birmingham Accelerator Project, 46 jobs have been created in the deprived South West area of Birmingham with the help of iSE.The project helped eight local people
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Live from Voice 11

March 30, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Just been to look at Birmingham’s Shop for Change exhibition at Voice 11. It looks wonderful. Eight organisations are displaying their wares. We have Textiles by St Annes, iSE, Harris and Harris Accountancy, Concept Conference Centre, Citizen Enterprises, Enta, Roots HR. We̵
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iSE launches ‘Social Enterprise Journey’

March 11, 2011
by Alun Severn
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Are you considering setting up a social enterprise?  Wondering whether you have the drive to become a social entrepreneur? Want more information about what is involved in setting up a new social enterprise? Then iSE has just the event for you.
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The ‘Social Enterprise Zone’ – Digbeth

February 24, 2011
by Alun Severn
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The Digbeth area of Birmingham is a social enterprise Zone with over 20 thriving social enterprises. On Thursday 17th February 2011, I along with a number of start up social enterprises, visited Health Exchange CIC, 50fifty/Made By Young People CIC and Change Kitchen CIC. The backgrou
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Social enterprise clusters in Digbeth

February 09, 2011
by Alun Severn
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The Digbeth area of Birmingham, already known as a hub for the creative industries and new digital technology, has now become a magnet for social entrepreneurs, with over 20 thriving social enterprises trading in everything from baking to textiles, health care to marketing. The storie
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i-SE launches new website

September 24, 2010
by Alun Severn
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Business support provider and development specialist i-SE has just launched its new website — here.  I’m still exploring, but I must say i very much prefer it to the old version. It looks better and it contains more. I especially like the free downloads — useful stuf
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Social enterprises do great business at launch of Shop for Change

July 09, 2010
by Alun Severn
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What an exciting day it was yesterday – we have been on a journey for the past 9 months to understand how best to grow new markets and support existing social enterprises. We quickly understood that social enterprises delivering services is the best kept secret in Birmingham and
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Shop for Change puts social enterprise top of Brum’s shopping list!

July 06, 2010
by Alun Severn
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As covered in this post, Shop for Change, the new campaign to encourage social enterprises and third sector organisations to buy more goods and services from each other is now live. It was launched today by Cllr Sue Anderson, who said, “About half the sector places less than 10%
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“Shop for Change” — a new campaign to build trade between third sector organisations and particularly social enterprises

May 04, 2010
by Alun Severn
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"Shop for Change" is an exciting new campaign to build trade between social enterprises and third sector organisations
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