Would you like a FREE advert to help improve your business? CaSe-da is working with Enterprise Radio to help them build their social enterprise. Tune in to www.enterpriseradio.co.uk to give it a try. ” This station’s future success is solely dependent on the complete satisfaction of our listener audience. Enterprise Radio is committed to becoming the industry leader [...] [...more]
Grant funding is available in the East Midlands to enable social enterprises to purchase specialist business advice based on the outcome of a diagnostic with a Business Link adviser. Who is eligible? The grant is available to pre-start social enterprises seeking to purchase specialist advice on governance and legal structures; and start up and established social enterprises [...] [...more]
The Social Economy is that sector between the Private and the Public Sector (otherwise known as the Third Sector) such as voluntary and community organisations and not-for-profit businesses including social enterprise. Government makes a major focus on the development of social enterprise. A strategy is being written for supporting the development of the social economy [...] [...more]
Social Enterprise has come of age. Today social enterprises aren’t solely an alternative to public service delivery or innovative business solutions to social problems. Social Enterprise holds a new space in civil society. CAN’s vision is of a social economy buoyed by a thriving social enterprise market. Our mission is to help social entrepreneurs achieve it. To [...] [...more]
Ibstock Community Enterprises owns and manages the former TSB Bank in Ibstock as a One Stop Shop. The Community Shop provides access to a range of services, information and advice, primarily about Ibstock and the surrounding area. The Shop is also used as a meeting space for local groups. The Shop is at 12 [...] [...more]
Dropped into the Just Fair Trade shop yesterday to ask Sarah Shepherd and the team how Fair Trade Fortnight went. They said the shop has been very busy with people taking the time to see how much the Fair Trade retail experience has changed. I like visiting this place because everyone is always smiling and its [...] [...more]
EMEN was set up to provide support to voluntary and community organisations, business support organisations, minority businesses and social enterprises across the East Midlands. By doing this we help to improve the quality of life of people living in some of the most disadvantaged wards of the region by providing educational, economic, sport, social and cultural [...] [...more]
Trading For Change provides a range of paid for specialist services for voluntary and community organisations as well as private businesses.If you are looking for technical support, need a professional print and design service, a place to hold your next conference, or even a new website we can help. Trading for Change [...more]
Being as its FairTrade Fortnight, Citizens Eye took the opportunity to visit Leicester’s very own Fair Trade shop. What a pleasent surpise! I’m not quite sure how a Fair Trade shop should look but the environment created by Sarah Shepherd and the workers of the Just Fair Trade co-operative can only be described as a ’boutique’ feel. [...] [...more]
An extra £37m is to be set aside for social enterprise ventures, Gordon Brown announced today. Speaking via video link to delegates of Voice08, the annual social enterprise conference, which was held in Liverpool, Brown revealed £10m was to be put into a new risk capital fund for social enterprises. Also announced was the addition of £27m [...] [...more]
