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SEUK reports on impact of Buy Social Corporate Challenge — and it is truly impressive

July 20, 2021

Five years ago SEUK established an ambitious Buy Social Corporate Challenge. It was launched to considerable fanfare in Downing Street, with seven founding corporate partners committing to open up their supply chains to social enterprises. The idea of the challenge was to take the pro

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iSE & Witton Lodge offer new work, wellbeing and enterprise programme

July 14, 2021

Employment support

iSE and Witton Lodge Community Association are now delivering a new ESF-funded employment and enterprise programme called the WOWED project — which stands for World of Work, Wellbeing and Enterprise Development. The project offers: Basic skills support Confidence/assertiven

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Welcome Change CIC opens community hub in Lea Village

July 06, 2021

Councillor Marje Bridle has officially opened a new Community Hub in Lea Village in east Birmingham. The hub is run by BSSEC member, Welcome Change CIC. It has been supported by a grant of £500k from the National Lottery Community Fund, securing its future for the next five years. The

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Roots HR CIC announces free HR toolkits

July 01, 2021

If you’ve been planning to build up up your in-house resources on HR and recruitment, now is a very good time to do so. Social sector HR specialist Roots HR CIC has just announced that as part of delivering on its social mission it will be releasing a free HR toolkit every month

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iSE is recruiting

June 23, 2021

This just in from iSE… Exciting new job opportunities in the social enterprise sector iSE CIC has two exciting vacancies based at our Women’s Enterprise & Community Hub in Sparkbrook, working for project lifespan on our new WOWED project. The two posts are: Business Advisor:

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iSE welcomes new chief executive

May 13, 2021

Further to this post, the Chair of iSE’s board of directors, Dr Steve Harding, has issued a statement welcoming iSE’s new chief executive, Cathy Brown. Cathy will replace Sarah Crawley, iSE’s founder and only CEO since the company’s formation, on the 1st July.

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City Drive is back — now rebranded Social Enterprise Drive 21, packed with events, fully online

March 18, 2021

With 21 online events over five days from 19th-23rd April, Social Enterprise Drive 2021 (the rebranded City Drive) is back for its eighth year, celebrating social enterprise in Birmingham and beyond. While tirelessly organised as ever by the team at iSE, Social Enterprise Drive couldn

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‘Transforming Public Procurement’ Green Paper — consultation ends 10th March

March 04, 2021

I wrote some while back about the publication of the Government’s Green Paper, Transforming Public Procurement. I was reminded today (thank you, Sarah Crawley) that the consultation on these proposed changes closes on the 10th March. If, like me, you are struggling to fully unde

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ChangeKitchen builds on supper club success

March 02, 2021

Further to this post, ChangeKitchen CIC has announced that it is building on the success of its Valentine’s Day click+collect suppers — each order included a donated ‘community meal’ — by launching a new and similarly arranged supper club. The Social Supp

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University of Birmingham’s fully-funded Impact Internships

February 08, 2021

Not to be confused with the internships programme covered in this earlier post, the University of Birmingham also operates a scheme called Impact Internships. These are designed specifically to enable start-ups, social enterprises and SMEs to recruit talented students or graduate

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

February 02, 2021

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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BVSC/Shuut Videos — harness the power of smartphone video tech in a free online workshop

December 21, 2020

Free workshop: How To Get Better At Video Date: Wednesday 20th January 2021 Time: 10.00-11.00 Charities and voluntary organisations have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Demand for services has increased yet fundraising opportunities – especially in-person – have

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School for Social Entrepreneurs is promoting three new programmes

December 17, 2020

The School for Social Entrepreneurs is currently promoting three new programmes of support for social entrepreneurs and we said we’d help get the word out. The programmes are as follows: Black Social Entrepreneurs Futures Programme This programme is for people who iden

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Join iSE for a special Social Enterprise Day 2020

November 12, 2020

Thursday 19th November is Social Enterprise Day, held as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. As we near the middle of lockdown #2, iSE wanted to do something to help keep up the spirits of the sector, while also promoting the work that social enterprises do. So join them for a

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Could you be the new operator of a friendly vegan/veggie wholefood shop at The Warehouse, Birmingham Friends of the Earth?

September 29, 2020

This, just in from The Warehouse/Birmingham FoE: Could you be the new operator of a friendly vegan/veggie wholefood shop at The Warehouse, Birmingham Friends of the Earth’s community building in Allison St, Digbeth? Or perhaps you have a different ethical retail business id

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iSE is recruiting…

September 28, 2020

iSE is looking for an exceptional and ‘social enterprise passionate’ individual to fill the role of Hub Manager and continue the success of its Sparkbrook Women’s Enterprise and Community Hub (WECH). Following a massive refurbishment, the HUB offers inspiring of

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‘Levelling Up Our Communities’ — new report by Danny Kruger MP published

September 28, 2020

Further to this post, Danny Kruger MP has completed his report on civil society and communities that Boris Johnson tasked him with producing and it has just been published… I started to read Kruger’s report, Levelling Up Our Communities: Proposals for a New Social Covenant

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Jericho wins prestigious Centre for Social Justice award

September 21, 2020

We would like to congratulate everyone at Jericho on this news, just in… Leading Birmingham-based social enterprise Jericho has been awarded the coveted Work and Welfare award by the highly regarded Think Tank, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ). The award took place as part of this

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New social investment support programme for social enterprises & third sector

September 03, 2020

Through its Social Investment Catalyst Programme the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) is offering six free online masterclasses between 10th September and 19th November. The sessions will include a variety of expert keynote speakers from the VCSE sector across the Midl

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BECo — the social enterprise that wants employers to steal its staff

September 01, 2020

Divine chocolate. Belu water. The Big Issue. A comparatively small number of social enterprises are operating at the scale of national manufacturers. And note that I do call them manufacturers and not ‘brands’ — I mean companies that make things, not brands that purs

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