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ChangeKitchen CIC — order your click+collect Valentine’s Day supper and donate a community meal for four

February 02, 2021
by Alun Severn
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ChangeKitchen CIC has announced a new Click+Collect supper club, starting 14th February with a Valentine’s soul food menu that ‘shares some love’ by also reducing food poverty in Birmingham communities. Now you can treat someone you love to a delicious Valentine’s meal while also dona
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Harness the power of smart phone tech to make better videos — watch the workshop replay

January 27, 2021
by Alun Severn
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I wrote in a recent post about a free online workshop on smart phone video production skills being offered by Ruth Duggal of Make Your Own Video Training Academy (MYO VDO) in conjunction with BVSC. That webinar took place on 20th January but you can still view the recording
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Do you know that your business could qualify for a free mobile App?

February 04, 2015
by Alun Severn
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Bournville College in partnership with bsmart media is currently able to offer SMEs — including social enterprises and third sector organisations — in the Greater Birmingham and Solihull area development of a FREE smartphone App. This offer is the result of an ESF-funded p
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iSE offers Meaningful Marketing master class

September 23, 2014
by Alun Severn
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iSE is offering a Meaningful Marketing master class — please see flyer below. Please note that eligibility criteria apply. For more information and bookings send mail to Marija Sakalauskaite.
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Next Digbeth Social Enterprise Quarter market 27th June

June 12, 2014
by Alun Severn
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The next Digbeth Social Enterprise Quarter market will take place on Friday 27th June 2014. Be there or be square! For more information or to book a stall ring Marija Sakalauskaite at iSE on 0121 771 1411 or send Marija mail.
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SEUK launches new Buy Social directory

May 15, 2014
by Alun Severn
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SEUK has just launched its news online directory, Buy Social. The Directory has been created by Social Enterprise UK in partnership with the Cabinet Office, City of London Corporation and Aspire Group. The Directory is clearly slanted towards helping more social enterprises do busines
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Jazz, Russian classics, great coffee, homemade cake — St Barnabas has it all

April 25, 2014
by Alun Severn
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St Barnabas Church Centre (which I have written about before on this blog) really does have something for everyone, you know. As well as forthcoming music from the Russian classics — Borodin, Glazunov and Tchaikovsky — the cafe also hosts a latin-flavoured jazz trio on the
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Social enterprise bouquets & floral arrangements

March 10, 2014
by Alun Severn
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Park Lane Garden Centre is now producing beautiful floristry to suit all occasions — birthdays, new baby, anniversaries, funerals, special events, corporate hire -– ideal for Mothers’ Day. For further details or to pre-order send mail to Julia Parkes.
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NESTA report says alternative financing market has grown by 91% in past year

February 24, 2014
by Alun Severn
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Thanks to Chris Newis at CROWN for this: “A new report from NESTA, The Rise of Future Finance, reviews  the alternative finance market. It covers crowd funding, peer to peer lending, and invoice trading. According to this report the market for alternative funding grew by 91% bet
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“Sometimes dreams become reality…”

December 12, 2013
by Alun Severn
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The Digbeth Social Enterprise Quarter was formally launched today. Welcoming the initiative, Sir Albert Bore, leader of Birmingham City Council, pledged the authority’s continuing support for the initiative, saying, “Sometimes dreams become reality. But who would have thou
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Autism Birmingham CIC seeks stallholders — Rubery market

October 24, 2013
by Alun Severn
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Autism Birmingham CIC has just signed a lease to become the new tenants of Rubery Market. It will re-open the market in readiness for Christmas and is looking for anyone who would be interested in hiring a stall or a glass display cabinet for the sale of items or for advertising purpo
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Flossie, Stoosh and Kathryn — bringing animal assisted therapy to the Midlands

April 30, 2013
by Alun Severn
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We don’t often get news of social enterprises in Wolverhampton so I thought I would post this interesting story. What do Flossie, Stoosh and Kathryn Kimbley all have in common? Well, Flossie is a gorgeous Cocker Spaniel, Stoosh is a skunk, and Kathryn is the director of Wolverha
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Tackling Anger Live on BBC Breakfast

April 25, 2013
by Mark Ellerby
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Local Social Entrepreneur, Martin Hogg from Citizen Coaching CIC, showed the UK how a local Social Enterprise is leading the way in dealing with anger issues that affects individuals, couples, communities, employers and society as a whole. Appearing on BBC Breakfast (23rd April 2013)
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From Burning Man to the V&A — the story of Textiles by St Annes

April 25, 2013
by Alun Severn
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Textiles by St Annes is a busy social enterprise supplying soft furnishings to the trade and private customers. It is a social firm and operates as part of BITA Pathways, the largest mental health charity in Birmingham, supporting people who have experienced mental ill-health back int
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Do you want to get your social enterprise in the spotlight?

April 23, 2013
by Alun Severn
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Have you got a great news story that helps showcase your business or the wider social enterprise movement? Have you got something to tell the world that will help even more people understand what makes social enterprises tick? Then get your social enterprise in the spotlight. Contact
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SEUK launches new badge for social enterprises and supporters

January 10, 2013
by Alun Severn
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Social Enterprise UK has just announced that in response to demand from both its members and supporters of the social enterprise movement it has introduced a new badge that will enable social enterprises to identify themselves to customers and other stakeholders in a consistent way. T
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Do you work in housing support, social care, or with vulnerable clients? Do you use social media?

January 03, 2013
by Alun Severn
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Then you might be interested in this. Support Solutions in conjunction with its sister company, Media Bubble, is undertaking research into the extent and nature of social media usage within the housing support & social care sectors. The outcomes of this research will be shared wit
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On the first day of Christmas….

December 14, 2012
by Alun Severn
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….my true love sent to me…. Reports. Yes, nfpSynergy, the not-for-profit research consultancy, is offering twelve free reports for Christmas — although you do have to register to access them. Hmm, very festive, I hear you say. Well, what they lack in festive fun some
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What can you ‘upcycle’? Cycles, of course!

December 06, 2012
by Alun Severn
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  Gear-up is a bike social enterprise set up by a group of unemployed young people living on the Bromford estate. In the past year the thee lads have completed a NOCN social enterprise award, become bikeability instructors for Birmingham City Council, completed training to become
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What can be done about the ‘shadow state’?

December 05, 2012
by Alun Severn
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Further to this post on SEUK’s recent report, The Shadow State, there is an interesting article in the New Statesman online, in which journalist Alan White makes the case for buying local, buying social value, and buying social enterprise. It’s heartening to see the social
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