21st June 2023
Bi-monthly, I’m invited to attend (with other national and regional VCSE sector agencies) the VCSE Advisory Group hosted by Claire Dove. It is always interesting and from this month we... Read more
2nd November 2022
Our 2022 Roundtable Series has explored various themes of interest, all relating back to stimulating and developing eco-systems to enable the growth of the regional social economy. The September 2022... Read more
31st August 2022
BSSEC CIC is delighted to share a few highlights from Birmingham Voluntary Service Council (BVSC) latest news share. + + + Embedding the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise sector... Read more
11th August 2022
Further to our earlier post, BSSEC Talking Collaboration and Clusters, in which we introduced the idea of facilitated roundtable discussions to help promote the plans BSSEC CIC has been part of... Read more
10th August 2022
Are you a decision maker in your social enterprise, community business, cooperative or working in the public sector? Help map the process and share your ideas, concerns or experience of... Read more
18th July 2022
A public consultation opened on Saturday 16th July 2022 about how £738 million of dormant assets should be spent in England, potentially putting at risk the future flow of millions... Read more
15th July 2022
WELCOME TO OUR GUEST BLOG FROM HEIDI FISHER MBE Heidi is Founder of award-winning social enterprise, Make An Impact CIC BSSEC CIC is committed to, and working on, the growth... Read more
26th April 2022
A new report by Locality, Navigating the Storm, has just been released and shows how community organisations kept going through the pandemic. The report explains how the determination and expertise... Read more1st April 2022
During 2019/20, a Social Economy Task Force made up of social sector practitioners and experts from across the region was convened by West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), tasked with helping... Read more22nd February 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... Read more14th October 2021
In 2009 Social Enterprise UK carried out its first state of the sector survey and with each passing survey these exercises have become more sophisticated and arguably more valuable. The... Read more7th October 2021
Business in the Community’s (BITC) Place Taskforce, chaired by Lord Steve Bassam, is launching a call for evidence into the role of business in place-based regeneration. The Place Taskforce builds... Read more27th September 2021
There is still time to complete BVSC's State of the Sector survey 2021...but the survey will end soon. Please see below. BVSC has just announced that its State of the... Read more12th August 2021
[caption id="attachment_18596" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Graphic: courtesy BVSC[/caption] BVSC's State of the Sector 2020 survey underwent an almost complete redesign last year in order to focus on gathering as much data... Read more3rd February 2021
The funding that The Barrow Cadbury Trust invests in its Economic Justice programme continues to help break new and important ground. The New Policy Institute (NPI), supported by The Barrow... Read moreCopyright 2023. All rights reserved by BSSEC CIC.