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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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JTH announces Christmas tree recycling scheme

December 19, 2018

John Taylor Hospice has a brilliant plan that will take the hassle out of your new year Christmas tree disposal – it has just announced a Christmas tree collection and recycling scheme which will be good for the environment and good for its fundraising. For a suggested donation of £8,

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Live from Social Enterprise World Forum 2018 — Edinburgh

September 12, 2018

As we wrote in this post, the Social Enterprise World Forum has returned to the UK after 10 years of travelling the world, one continent at a time, and this year’s host city is Edinburgh. As in previous years, Sarah Crawley has kindly offered to do some live blogs so t

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Social impact researcher needs market research participants — can you help?

January 23, 2018

We have been contacted by ex-government policy researcher Kate Sweetman who is developing a new social impact/social value reporting consultancy. Kate is currently engaged in market and feasibility research to fine-tune her business idea. What does the ‘offer’ need to look like in ord

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PSIAMS Transforming Services for Children and Young People

October 30, 2017

by Mark Ellerby

Children and Young People, psiams, social impact

PSIAMS Systems Limited is a software and IT social enterprise that focusses on whole system solutions to help improve services delivery in the VCSE Sector. Recently, the PSIAMS team have been developing a range of solutions for organisations that support Children and Young People (CYP

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Yet more news from New Zealand — Social Enterprise World Forum 2017

September 28, 2017

by Sarah Crawley

Greetings again from Christchurch, New Zealand, and the Social Enterprise World Forum 2017. This follows on from my first and second posts. I woke up bright and early this morning feeling excited that the conference was moving into ‘practice’ with workshops for practitioners and

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PSIAMS Scoops Prestigious Healthcare Innovation Award

July 24, 2017

by Mark Ellerby

psiams, social enterprise, social impact

PSIAMS Systems has won a prestigious award celebrating the very best of innovation in healthcare around the West Midlands. PSIAMS was given the gong in the Social Enterprise category of the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN)’s second annual Celebration of Innovatio

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The changing face of social enterprise — Changes Gardening

July 10, 2017

We’ve written about Changes UK, the Digbeth-based recovery charity before on this blog. Since moving into Birmingham just a few years ago, the organisation is well on the way to realising its ambition of making this city the capital of recovery services. But what does a drug and

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iSE amongst West Mids winners of NatWest Skills & Opportunities Fund 2017 awards

June 07, 2017

iSE has just announced that it is amongst the West Midlands winners of the NatWest Skills & Opportunities Fund 2017 awards. The project, ‘Enterprising Skills for Women’ will provide support for 20 women-led enterprises, encourage 60 start-ups and enable 100 women to acc

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Transformation and Social Value: Social Prescribing Keynote

March 25, 2017

by Mark Ellerby

Dudley, NHS, psiams, social enterprise, Social Prescribing

PSIAMS Systems will be hosting a data focussed conference during City Drive Week in Birmingham. The event will feature a range of presentations and workshops on how data is transforming the way the Voluntary and Social Enterprise Sector are responding to change and the needs of commis

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Transformation & Social Value Event – 5th April 2017

February 20, 2017

by Mark Ellerby

NHS, psiams, social impact, social value

Transformation and Social Value taking place in Birmingham on 5th April 2017 is an opportunity to hear from the charities leaders and social enterprises in the West Midlands who have embraced new technology and data to empower their organisations to work differently and demonstrate th

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UK Sepsis Trust fundraiser at The Comedy Loft — ‘Remembering Tyler’

September 02, 2016

Eleanor Cappell, who many of you will know, is raising money for the UK Sepsis Trust, a Birmingham-based charity, in memory of her friend’s son, Tyler, who died from a sepsis infection in November of last year. Tyler was two months away from his third birthday. Every year in the

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Importance of Data: ICO Annual Track 2016

August 16, 2016

by Mark Ellerby

Data is an essential part of any charity or social enterprise’s work and it’s important that data is kept organised, safe and secure, but how do the general public feel about their data? In the latest ICO Annual Track (2016) survey the public report that National Health is one o

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Cabinet Office announces new review “to unlock potential of mission-led businesses”

May 26, 2016

The Cabinet Office has announced that later this year it will be issuing a call for evidence as part of a review of the “mission-led” business sector in the UK. Mission-led businesses, the Cabinet Office says, use their business models to achieve both social and economic i

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NHS Expo 2015 Review

September 06, 2015

by Mark Ellerby

cloudberry, Dudley, NHS, psiams, social impact, social value

NHS Expo 15 took place in Manchester last week. The two day event had an attendance of over 10,000 people from health and care, the voluntary sector, local government, and health industry. A key feature of the event was highlighting the current Vanguard sites in the New Care Models Zo

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NHS Expo 2015 – Twitter and Blog Feed

September 02, 2015

by Mark Ellerby

cloudberry, health, mark ellerby, NHS, psiams, social impact, social value

NHS Expo 15 is the main event in the health and care calendar and is again hosted by NHS England in Manchester. The event has an attendance of over 5000 people a day from health and care, the voluntary sector, local government, and industry. This year it takes place on the 2nd and 3rd

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Happy New Year!

December 30, 2014

BSSEC would like to wish all of its readers, supporters, members and friends a happy, prosperous and socially enterprising 2015.

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Measuring Social Impact – An NHS Building Health Partnerships Case Study

March 05, 2014

by Mark Ellerby

building health partnerships, cloudberry, Dudley, mark ellerby, psiams, social impact, social value

The Building Health Partnerships programme aims to improve health outcomes through supporting the development of effective and productive partnerships between Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), local authorities and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations. S

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Freshwinds IT is celebrating

January 15, 2013

Freshwinds IT is celebrating its second birthday and is offering a special discount on website designs for social enterprises, charities and not-for-profits. Click the image below to view a larger version.

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GFS starts foodbank with a difference

November 30, 2012

There is an interesting story over on Gateway Family Service’s blog. Yes, it’s about a new foodbank — at least, a foodbank of a certain kind — but that isn’t what makes it instructive. What makes it instructive is that it illustrates what some social ente

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