The Office of the Third Sector has published an cross-departmental response to the recent Social Enterprise Summit. The report says that “peer-to-peer support and mentoring” is a key issue for SEs and that OTS and the Dept for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) will build on existing work with Horsemouth, the informal mentoring website, to encourage more social entrepreneurs to engage in such support.
Beyond this, however, the report seems to offer only more of the same — pledges that government departments and agencies will work together “to ensure our promotion and support activities are inclusive of social enterprise…”
Or as youn put it Alun, no money then!
Well, that was my reading of it, I’m afraid…