Newsletter
May 06, 2010Issue 83
Welcome to RISE's May e-bulletin. Read on for all the latest social enterprise news and events from the South West and beyond, including...
• Social Enterprise Leadership: Summer School 7-9 July 2010
• Could this be the year that a South West neighbourhood, village, town or city is named the most enterprising place in the UK?
• Job opportunities at Co-active and CEMVO
• BOOK NOW: Is social franchising an opportunity for the social enterprise sector? Come and find out at the next RISE Business Advice Network being held in Bristol on June 2nd, £55 or free to attend for RISE Additions members. Find more details here
• See www.rise-sw.co.uk/cornwallevents for a comprehensive update of events in Cornwall for emerging and existing social enterprises, delivered in partnership with Business Link and Co-active
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Social Enterprise Leadership: Summer School 7-9 July
We are thrilled to invite South West social enterprises, both established and emerging, to the Social Enterprise Summer School, designed to enhance and develop leadership skills. Funded by Capacity Builders, the Summer School is an exciting opportunity to innovate your business and network with like-minded social enterprises. Places are strictly limited and in high demand so register your interest today by emailing bridget@cosmic.org.uk.Read More...
Community-led food enterprises are up for the challenge of climate change – says new report
Community food enterprises can play a role in helping to tackle the challenge of climate change through empowering local people and communities to take action. This is the main message from a new report launched this week [Wednesday 5th May] at a major national conference in Manchester.Read More...
New facilities at the heart of Cotswold village
Building work has started on a new annex to the village hall in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, that will house a shop, post office and cafe. When it is finished in July there will be a full range of community facilities, including the primary school and play ground next to the village hall, located at the heart of this Cotswold village.Read More...
UK Co-operative sector announces first-ever Co-operatives Fortnight
Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, has today announced the launch of a major sector-wide campaign – Co-operatives Fortnight (19 June to 3 July 2010) – to spread the message about the co-operative alternative across the UK.Read More...
Job opportunity at Co-active
Co-active are seeking to recruit a Business Advisor (Torbay and Plymouth)
The successful candidate will:
• know how to make a real difference to the business success of Co-active's clients
• deliver against a challenging range of outputs
• enjoy being a part of a creative and knowledgeable team
Closing Date: 5pm Wednesday 12 May 2010
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Community Energy Plus gain the Social Enterprise Mark
Community Energy Plus - Cornwall’s leading charity which has delivered local solutions to fuel poverty, energy efficiency and renewable energy for more than a decade, has become the first organisation working in the sustainable energy sector in the South West to gain the Social Enterprise Mark.
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Could this be the year that a South West neighbourhood, village, town or city is named the most enterprising place in the UK?
The South West is looking again for the best examples of enterprise from the region in the form of the Enterprising Britain competition. All it takes to enter is around 3,000 words on an electronic application form submitted to Enterprise UK by Monday the 31st of May 2010.Read More...
New Initiative to Help Young People with Learning Disabilities into Work
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust is one of only 14 sites in the UK that will take part in a brand new initiative to help young people with learning disabilities into work.Read More...
Social Enterprise Mark Holder Celebrates 20th Anniversary At The House Of Commons
Community Network celebrates 20 years of tackling social exclusion through teleconferencing.
Home Secretary, Alan Johnson MP, joined over 100 guests at the House of Commons to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Community Network, the charity that works to tackle social isolation through the use of telephone support and befriending groups.
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Job Vacancy at CEMVO
Project Officer (SW Region)Salary Circa £27,000 - Fixed Term Contract to 31 March 2011 – 37.5 hours per week
Reference: SE/SW
Closing Date: Monday 10 May 2010, 12pm
Interview Date: Monday 17 May 2010 (Bristol)
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International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference 2010
Your Chance to Enter the Enterprise Educator Awards!Enterprise Educators UK and NCGE are delighted to announce that the 2nd annual National Enterprise Educator Awards are now open for entries.
The deadline is Tuesday 1st June 2010.
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APPLY FOR THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE MARK BY 14th MAY …
YOU COULD WIN £1000 WORTH OF FREE ADVERTISING FOR YOUR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
Want to make your customers proud of buying from you? Do you want to differentiate your offer from the competition when you bid for contracts? Use the Social Enterprise Mark to promote your social enterprise credentials to your customers simply and clearly. And there could be no better time to apply! Read More...
Event Date: May 11, 2010
SW - Trade Secrets - Viability not Liability: Legal Guide to Asset Development
Location - Tiverton, Devon
Everything you ever wanted to know about owning property but thought it was too expensive to ask!
In association with The Ethical Property Foundation.
This one-day learning event is an essential guide to negotiating, acquiring and developing an asset. Suitable for all rural social and community enterprise practitioners interested in using a building or other asset for long-term community benefit, the day covers everything you need to know but thought it was too expensive to ask!
Event Date: May 13-15, 2010
Other - SHINE 2010
Location - London
Social Entrepreneurs, SHINE is your event.
Think of it as your business spring-clean where you get the time, space and support to take your social enterprise to the next stage.
As a co-created event you'll get out what you put in. Get ready for:
* 1-to-1 advice sessions with the experts in marketing, finance and more.
* Practical workshops to develop your skills.
* Real stories from other social entrepreneurs who've been there and done it.
* Inspiration from the best in the business.
* Showcase and pitch your enterprise.
SHINE is intensive, energising, practical and priced for small businesses.
Event Date: May 13, 2010
Cornwall - Access to Finance and Managing Risk
Location - Redruth
• Is your organisation financially secure and sustainable?
• How would you be affected if grant funding dried up?
• Do you need to borrow money or attract an investor?
Event Date: May 14, 2010
Cornwall - FREE - One-to-one advice clinics for social enterprises
Location - Bodmin
If you are a social enterprise or established community organisation and need good advice to develop your ideas further, here is an opportunity for a one-to-one chat with one of our qualified business advisors.
The advisors are social enterprise specialists and will provide no-obligation, practical advice on how to grow your organisation to the next stage.
Event Date: May 18, 2010
Cornwall - Starting in Social Enterprise
Location - Truro
• Do you have an enterprising idea to benefit your
community or the environment?
• Don’t know where to start?
This workshop will help you turn your plans into reality.
Event Date: May 19, 2010
Cornwall - FREE - One-to-one advice clinics for social enterprises
Location - Launceston
If you are a social enterprise or established community organisation and need good advice to develop your ideas further, here is an opportunity for a one-to-one chat with one of our qualified business advisors.
The advisors are social enterprise specialists and will provide no-obligation, practical advice on how to grow your organisation to the next stage.
Event Date: May 20, 2010
SW - Plymouth Business School Social Enterprise Forum
Location - Robbins Lecture Theatre and Conference Centre, University of Plymouth
The University of Plymouth Business School recruits approximately 900 undergraduate students every year into a wide range of management degrees. Graduates of the Plymouth Business School are known for their employability, engagement and entrepreneurial skills. They are now seeking to further enhance the educational experience of these students through a significant shift in their educational experiences to embrace a mandatory for-credit piece of experiential learning involving social enterprise, community business or green business.
In order to generate discussion and debate about what this experiential learning component of the Plymouth Business School undergraduate degrees might involve, they are proposing to host a meeting at the University for entrepreneurship educators and social enterprise advocates to explore the possibilities.
Event Date: May 20, 2010
SW - Seeing is Believing - Inclusion: The Theory and The Practice
Location - Plymouth
Through Pembroke Street Estate Management and the Zebra Collective, a remarkable opportunity to see
and learn from people who have made a difference to their community.
How did they do it?
What does it look like?
What are the values that keep them on track?
What are the principles and methods that you too can use?
This is a highly practical training event to explore how real inclusion works on the ground.
Event Date: May 20, 2010
Cornwall - Governance and Legal Structures
Location - Par, St Austell
• Are you trying to choose the right legal structure for a new social enterprise?
• Does your steering group or committee need to become incorporated as some kind of company?
• Does your charity or community group want to develop
a trading arm?
Event Date: May 24, 2010
Cornwall - FREE - One-to-one advice clinics for social enterprises
Location - Penzance
If you are a social enterprise or established community organisation and need good advice to develop your ideas further, here is an opportunity for a one-to-one chat with one of our qualified business advisors.
The advisors are social enterprise specialists and will provide no-obligation, practical advice on how to grow your organisation to the next stage.
Event Date: May 25-26, 2010
SW - Social Return on Investment Introductory and Practitioner Training
Location - Bristol
This training course is designed to provide an introduction to SROI (day 1) and practitioner training (days 1 & 2).
Find out more.
Event Date: May 25, 2010
Cornwall - Starting in Social Enterprise
Location - Penzance
• Do you have an enterprising idea to benefit your community or the environment?
• Don’t know where to start?
This workshop will help you turn your plans into reality.
Event Date: May 27, 2010
Cornwall - Access to Finance and Managing Risk
Location - Launceston
• Is your organisation financially secure and sustainable?
• How would you be affected if grant funding dried up?
• Do you need to borrow money or attract an investor?
Event Date: Jun 02, 2010
RISE - RISE BAN - Is social franchising an opportunity for the social enterprise sector?
Location - Bristol
Once a social enterprise has been running successfully ‘social franchising’ can sometimes be an effective way to develop and expand the business further.
On the 2 of June, the RISE Business Advice Network event – held in Bristol - discusses this very topic: with key speaker Keith Richardson, Coordinator of the UK Social Franchising Network and the European Social Franchising Network, both of which are due to be launched soon.
Would you like to join? RISE is a membership organisation and is open to anyone based in the region who is interested in the social enterprise agenda in South West England. For organisations that provide information, advice and support to social enterprises, RISE provides an enhanced level of membership, called RISE Additions. RISE Additions provides discounts and benefits, including to RISE training and Business Advice Network.
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