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Ambassadors recruitment ends August
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| Jonathan Bland, Phil Hope MP and
three of the publicly known
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The search for extraordinary individuals to apply for
our Social Enterprise Ambassadors Programme is underway.
Applications have been rolling in since our successful
launch on July 24.
The deadline is fast approaching - 5pm August 20 - so
if you, or someone you know, would like to apply, please
do so now.
We are looking for inspiring individuals who have set
up, are running or are working for a successful social
enterprise to promote participation and awareness of the
social enterprise movement.
If you have any questions about the programme, please
contact our ambassadors campaigner, Bergin O’Malley at
bergin.omalley@socialenterprise.org.uk
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Download an application
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Conservative announce social enterprise
zones |
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The Conservative's Social Enterprise Zones Task Force
today announced its findings and recommendations.
The key policy announcement was the proposed creation
of social enterprise zones, which would offer a
beneficial environment for social enterprises to
operate. The proposals also suggest offering tax
reliefs, the formation of a Community Bank and reduced
planning constraints.
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Read the Coalition's
response here |
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Coalition
Responds To Third Sector Review |
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The Coalition welcomes the recommendations in the
Government's new Third Sector
Review.
The The Future of the Third Sector in
Economic and Social Regeneration
demonstrates increased Government support for the role
of social enterprises in providing innovative,
people-centred solutions to social and environmental
challenges.
The report recognises the importance of appropriate
business support, offers continued support for social
enterprise public service delivery and commits to
exploring new kinds of social finance.
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For the Coalitions Full
Response, click here |
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Government
to build third sector research
centre |
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The recent Third Sector Review
announced an ambitious programme to build the evidence
base of the third sector by establishing a new research
centre. The Government is already working with the
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Big
Lottery Fund on the development of this programme.
The ESRC is also currently preparing
to co-host a final national research seminar with the
Coalition, which will take place in Scotland. The
Coalition's work will form part of the social enterprise
research stream.
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To read the Third Sector
Review, click here |
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08 | | | |
The VOICE08 website has been launched in plenty of
time for next year's annual social enterprise
conference.
Check here for regular updates on the sector's
must-attend event.
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Visit the VOICE08
site |
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Volunteers
needed for research into health social
enterprises |
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A group of
researchers based at the Open University Business
School are seeking volunteers for focus groups
relating to governance in heath social
enterprises.
The group has been
appointed to undertake this research by the Governance
Hub & Social Enterprise Coalition with Co-operatives
UK involved in the steering group.
The aim is to examine
some of the distinctive governance issues for social
enterprises and charities so that the governance hub can
seek to support the sector.
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Further
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Youth
services and education consultations |
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The Department for Children, Schools
and Families (DCSF) are consulting on their Third Sector
Strategy and Action Plan - which tries to encourage
start-up social enterprises delivering services in
under-developed markets. It also looks at how social
enterprise can be used within the school curriculum.
The deadline for response is
September 30.
Read the report here
The national examining body, the QCA,
are consulting on GCSE Business Studies criteria, which
as set out in November's Action Plan will include social
enterprise.
The deadline for response is
September 14.
Read
the report here
The Coalition is keen to hear your
views on both of these issues - please contact Ceri
Jones at ceri.jones@socialenterprise.org.uk
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The Department of Communities and Local Government
are currently consulting on their third sector strategy,
as part of the work to improve the relationship with the
sector at the regional and local level.
The deadline for responses is September 20.
The Coalition is keen to hear your views - please
contact Ceri Jones at ceri.jones@socialenterprise.org.uk
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To read the strategy,
click here (pdf) |
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Social
franchising research |
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The Coalition wants to gain a deeper understanding of
social franchising activity in the UK. We are partnering
with franchising specialists in the north east, Inspire,
to research the subject. Inspire is successfully
replicating a number of social enterprise models across
the north east in the environment, health and social
care, and culture and tourism sectors.
Together we have developed a short online scoping
survey, the results of which will inform our future
work. We invite all readers to assist us in our research
by completing the survey.
Inspire is a development partnership funded by the
European Social Fund’s Equal Programme.
More
information about Inspire
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Complete the survey
here |
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David
Cameron calls on social enterprises to save excluded
pupils |
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| David Cameron at a Coalition
event last
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The leader of the Conservatives mentioned
social enterprises four times in a recent speech about
education. David Cameron said that businesses with
social goals can have an extremely positive impact on
pupils who have been excluded.
He explained: “A large part of the answer is
found in families, independent institutions, voluntary
bodies and social enterprises - in society, not the
state alone. Social responsibility, not state
control.”
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Read the BBC article
here |
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David
Miliband at launch of environmental social franchising
company |
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| David Miliband launches
CoRE | | | |
Foreign Secretary and South Shields MP David Miliband
helped launch a new social enterprise that will provide
the North East with a range of renewable energy systems.
Community Renewable Energy (CoRE) has just received
almost £400,000 of funding from regional development
agency One NorthEast to get off the ground. The company
plans to provide communities with sustainable, reliable
energy supplies and to generate income for local people
and projects.
CoRE will be working with a broad range of renewable
energy technologies including bio-diesel, wood fuel,
wind power and solar power.
David Miliband MP said: “As MP for South Shields, I
still take a great interest in how we can tackle Climate
Change - and how we as a region can lead the way.”
CoRE is part of INSPIRE which is funded by the
European Social Fund’s EQUAL Programme.
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Go the CoRE
website |
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Co-operative Group and United
merge |
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The Co-operative Group and United Co-operatives have
amalgamated. The new society is the world’s largest
consumer co-operative with 4.5 million members, 87,500
employees and a turnover of more than £9 billion.
The new organisation operates over 4,500 trading
outlets throughout the UK, including food stores,
pharmacies, travel branches and funeral
homes.
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Read the Retail Analysis
story here |
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Community
land trusts given role in housing
drive |
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Plans for 14 new pilots to test the ability of
community land trusts to deliver social housing have
been unveiled by the government.
The trusts will be independent, non-profit making
bodies taking a number of different forms to suit local
circumstances. For example, local people or businesses
with unused land will be able to establish a trust and
bid for a grant to build affordable housing.
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Further
information |
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Divine
Chocolate on the BBC |
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Fairtrade chocolate company Divine Chocolate Ltd. has
been featured on the BBC’s Working Lunch programme.
Divine’s managing director Sophi Tranchell was
interviewed on the show, which also featured a story on
town centre decay in the Scottish town of Dumfries.
Divine is co-owned by cocoa farmers cooperative Kuapa
Kokoo, who not only receive a fair price for their
cocoa but also share in the company's profit.
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Watch the BBC programme
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Starter
Packs Association launched |
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The Furniture Re-use Network has
launched a national Starter Packs Association to support
the development of starter pack schemes across the
country.
Starter packs typically provide
people moving into their first home with household items
such as bedding, crockery, cutlery, curtains and other
things needed to turn a property into a
home.
Sarah Findlay, coordinator of Starter
Packs Glasgow said: "Starter packs projects are a great
way to allow the community to access a re-use facility
for their unwanted and un-needed household goods -
diversion from landfill with fantastic social benefits!
Every city, town or rural community should have a
starter packs project.”
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Further
information |
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Social
Enterprise Academy summer school |
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September 20-23
Barony Castle,
Eddleston
The Social Enterprise Academy is
hosting a free residential summer school for potential
leaders and innovators within the country’s social
enterprise field. They are looking for 20 people from
across the country to take part in this fully-funded
programme.
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Further
information |
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Eden
regeneration conference |
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| Eden
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A Sense of Place: regeneration
September 3-7
Cornwall
The Eden project is holding a
conference to explore what regeneration means and how
you can best implement change. The conference is aimed
at a range of people including community
representatives, regeneration professionals, artists,
health workers, planners, police officers and
architects.
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Further
information |
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National
Rural Social Enterprise Conference |
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November 28-29
Hinxton Hall, the Wellcome Trust Conference
Centre, Cambridgeshire
This year’s Plunkett conference will
explore social enterprise approaches to rural
development. Chris Huhne MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs will be making a keynote presentation at the
event on the green challenge for rural communities.
For further information contact Mike
Perry 01993 810730
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Social
Enterprise Business Models
Conference |
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September 4
Radisson Hotel, Glasgow
Conference on business models which
aims to stimulating debate about methods of developing
social enterprise and showcase international and local
best practice. Keynote speakers include Liam Black and
Caroline Crosse from Social Firms
Australia.
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Further
information |
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Defra
publishes sustainability report |
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Defra has published a free pocket-sized booklet
offering an overview of the country’s progress in
tackling key economic, social and environmental issues.
It contains 68 indicators - covering
a wide range of topics of everyday concern such as
health, housing, jobs, crime, education, and our
environment - which all affect whether we can live
more sustainably in the future.
For the first time this edition
includes some provisional measures of wellbeing which
show how satisfied people are with their lives.
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Further
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DIY guide
to Social Return on Investment |
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| nef SROI
toolkit | | | |
The new economics foundation (nef) has published a
guide to using the Social Return on Investment method to
prove the wider social value created by companies and
organisations with a social purpose.
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Download the guide
here |
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Unlocking
Innovation: Why citizens hold the key to public service
reform |
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Thinktank Demos has published a booklet on how public
services can better engage their users based on examples
of best practice in the public and private sectors.
Unlocking Innovation consists of essays and
analysis from a wide range of public sector experts and
practitioners.
Authors include Paul Coen, Chief Executive of the
Local Government Association; Sir David Varney, Treasury
Adviser on transformational government and Geoff Mulgan,
Former Head of Policy in the Prime Minister’s
Office.
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Download publication
here |
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| SCEDU Tender Readiness Toolkit
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Sheffield community enterprise
development unit (SCEDU) has released an updated version
of their tender readiness toolkit. The tool helps
organisations to establish an awareness of their current
and future position, to allow them to compete
effectively for contracts.
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Opening
Doors Cumbria Ltd |
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Opening Doors Cumbria Ltd. is a social firm working
with people in the community who suffer from severe and
enduring mental heath problems.
They promote social inclusion through learning,
volunteering, lifestyle choices and work opportunities
in a range of fields including furniture building and
graphic design.
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www.openingdoorscumbria.org |
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Social
enterprise mindmap |
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| Social enterprise mapped
out | | | |
A mind map is a diagram used to represent words,
ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged
radially around a central key word or idea.
This wiki mindmap site has an interesting entry for
social enterprise and all its many
branches.
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www.wikimindmap.org |
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