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Community Enterprise Growth Plan: Unlocking Dormant Assets

June 09, 2022
by Sallie Ryan
Access – the Foundation for Social Investment, Big Society Capital, BSSEC, community, Community Enterprise Growh Plan, dormant funds, Impact Investing Institute, levelling up, Navca, Power to Change, School for Social Entrepreneurs, SEUK, social enterprise, Social Investment Business, UnLtd
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Community Enterprise Growth Plan
Dormant assets could unlock £1b to boost social enterprise and level up communities   Social Enterprise UK and Big Society Capital are among a coalition of organisations promoting the Community Enterprise Growth Plan, described as a “once-in-a-decade opportuni
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SHIFT Programme: Economies that Everyone Can Shape

June 01, 2022
by Sallie Ryan
Birmingham, community, Economy, SHIFT Birmingham, social economy, training
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Economy SHIFT Programme
A new training programme, Shift Birmingham, is open for applications. It’s for Birmingham people wish to explore how power and resources in the city can be rebalanced to improve local economies across the city.  Birmingham faces many crises including housing, work, living s
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BSSEC Talking Collaboration and Clusters

May 12, 2022
by Sallie Ryan
Birmingham, Birmingham & Solihull Social Economy Consortium, BSSEC CIC, community, Digbeth, DSEQ, iSE CIC, social economy, social enterprise, West Midlands, West Midlands Combined Authority, WMCA
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BSSEC CIC
In our earlier posts, we have been examining the West Midlands Combined Authority’s Growing the Social Economy in the WMCA area: A Framework for Action, the document that underpins WMCA’s ten-year plan for doubling the size of the West Midlands social economy, from around £3.5bn to £7
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Locality: Navigating the Storm

April 26, 2022
by Sallie Ryan
community, Covid 19, Locality, pandemic
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Locality Navigating The Storm
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 of community leaders played a key role and recognises the contribution made by funding
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