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Northern Entrepreneurs Invited To Pitch To New £2M Incubator Fund
A ground-breaking £2m ‘incubator’ fund designed to unlock northern business soul has been launched. Budding entrepreneurs from across the north of England are invited to apply for Social Incubator North. The fund is expecting over 200 applicants, of which it...
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Social sector must be seen as a serious career path…
Charities and social enterprises should follow TeachFirst and Frontline in creating opportunities for young ambitious graduates Charities and social enterprises must do more to open up the career paths for young people looking to move into the social sector, the...
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Nudged out: this is mutualisation, but not as we know it
It makes for a lovely headline. The much-trumpeted “nudge unit” in government is being nudged out and will be run as a private, mutual business. As one academic, Will Davies, jokes: “Turning the nudge unit into a mutual suggests coalition policy has now...
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The DoH has launched a new £10 million fund to ensure that homeless people..
The Department of Health has launched a new £10 million fund to ensure that homeless people receive better help once they leave hospital. The funding has been made available following a report commissioned by the Department of Health from Homeless...
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Social investment jargon buster
Bewildered by the jargon? Read a quick glossary of terms to get clear about the difference between a SPO and a SIFI Asset allocation The balance of investments assets held within a portfolio, usually in proportions that are tilted to...
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Social care should have £2bn share of NHS budget, says MP
Backbench MP proposes answer for challenge of growing care shortfall as Tories prepare to lay out health proposals At least £2bn of the NHS budget should be used to meet the costs of social care for older people in a move that it...
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Launch of Awards to Support Healthcare Innovation
The Guardian have launched a new awards scheme to recognise and celebrate innovation across the healthcare sector and beyond. The Guardian Healthcare Innovation Awards are an opportunity to celebrate and share best practice across different areas of the healthcare sector...
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Social enterprises need more than flowers to woo housing associations
Housing associations and social enterprise should be a marriage made in heaven, but they often fail to get as far as a disappointing first date. What’s to be done? Mark Richardson, author of a recent report on social enterprise and...
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Eight ways in which social sector organisations can improve
Dame Mary Marsh outlines the findings of a government review into skills and leadership among charities and social enterprises Social sector organisations are aware of the need for continued development and taking on new ways of doing things to ensure...
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Public sector mutuals are Cabinet Office success story
Rannia Leontaridi, who is leading the Cabinet Office bid to mutualise public services, talks about the programme’s successes In my current role as the head of the mutuals programme, I have the privilege of working with entrepreneurial public service leaders...
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‘Compete aggressively’, says government social procurement champion
Michael O’Toole says social enterprises must sell themselves aggressively in a competitive market to win public sector contracts This country has a great history of voluntary organisations delivering public services in their community. In the nineteenth century, long before the...
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How social ventures can build scalable models that will fly
For a social venture to be successful, the most critical ingredient is the attitude of the lead social entrepreneur Fifteen months ago, UnLtd Ventures began work designing the Big Venture Challenge, a national competition to find the most ambitious social...
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How to transform a cause-driven organisation into a social business
By proving their business credibility, charities and social enterprises can attract new partnerships and investment Social business was a term first coined by Muhammad Yunus to describe cause-driven businesses whose success is measured by their social rather than financial impact....
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Social enterprise should be made central to higher education strategy
There is no point in developing student social entrepreneurs if we don’t also develop a thriving social enterprise sector for them to work in, says Simon Denny When I went to university in the late 1970s, fewer than 20% of...
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The public sector should support social innovation, not seek to define it
Sweden is exploring how forms of social innovation can solve persistent social problems In Sweden, the trend towards supporting more social entrepreneurs and greater social innovation has visibly gained pace during recent years. Due in part to a shift in...
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Starting up a social care social enterprise
Caroline Lower, shares the success story of the UK’s first hospice-owned social care agency I had been with Martlets Hospice in Hove for 10 years when we took the major step of becoming the UK’s first hospice to start its...
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Making a Difference – When It’s More Than Money
with Social Enterprise expert Michelle Atkin Wednesday 27th March, 8.30pm “Are you running a business and feel unfulfilled? Do you know that you can make a difference to your community and not sure how to? Learn how to build...
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Courses from Imagineer
Support Worker Training – 6th March 2013 This course will look at how to become a good and valued support worker, ensuring you are working in a person centered way. We will take you through good and bad practices, what to expect...
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Income Generation Surgery Day
Tuesday 26th February 2013 The Holiday Inn, Bolton Centre You are invited to book a 1-2-1 appointment in four specialist areas around income generation for the arts. You/your organisation will benefit from having a free individual, tailored in-depth response to...
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Upcoming Events
Support Worker Training – Ensuring you receive good support Aims This course will look at how to become a good and valued support worker, ensuring you are working in a person centred way. We will take you through good and...
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Jacobs Moonlight Ball, 25th October 2012, The Hilton, Manchester
We would like to invite you to join us as we host Jacob’s Moonlight Ball; raising funds for the wonderful North West based childrens charity, JUMP. The event promises to be an exclusive and spectacular night, with star studded entertainment...
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Personalisation in Dementia Care
A two day workshop Aims The focus of the two day workshop is on achieving personalisation within dementia care. We offer a mixed method of learning, including explorative work. During the two days we will look at examples in your...
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Sikh Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference
Friday 14th September 2012 At the Tower Ballroom, Reservoir Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B16 9EE Based on the national mental illness statistics, 1 in 4 people in the UK will suffer at least one diagnosable episode of mental illness this...
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Support Brokerage Training
Aims: The aims of the training are: To have an understanding of Individual/Personal budgets To understand the beliefs and values of self directed support To have a greater understanding of the support brokerage function and where it sits within the...
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Local Superstars Taking Action
Have you heard about our Star People programme?? Star People is part of Big Local, an exciting opportunity for residents in 150 areas around England to use at least £1m to make a massive and lasting positive difference to their...
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Sport England’s Improvement Fund Opens for Round Two
Grants of between £150,000 and £500,000 are available to not-for-profit organisations to support medium sized improvement projects designed to increase the number of people who regularly play sport in England. The Improvement Fund is administered by Sport England with £45...
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UK’s First Social Impact Bond Fund Opens
The UK’s first Social Impact Bond was launched earlier this week by Bridges Ventures and Big Society Capital. The first of its kind, the £14 million fund will invest in charities and social enterprises to deliver programmes designed to improve...
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Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund: Fund details
About the Fund The Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund is a £14m fund run by Nesta, the UK’s Innovation Foundation, working in partnership with the Cabinet Office. We will provide financial and non-financial support to help grow the impact...
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Next Funding Round Announced for Strategic Arts Programme
Arts Council England has announced the next funding round for its Strategic Touring Programme. The Strategic Touring Programme provides funding for individuals and organisations to help people across England to have improved access to great art visiting their local area,...
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Knowledge Exchange Fund Open to Applications
The 2013 Call for applications for the Research and Knowledge Exchange (RAKE) Fund is now open. The RAKE Fund is provided by a partnership involving Barclays Bank, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and the Department for Business, Innovation...
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Over £1 million funding announced
Skills for Care is making over £1m of funding available through the Workforce Development Fund (WDF) to support the learning and development of personal assistants (PAs) and their employers (individual employers). This funding has been made available by the...
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Social innovation: nurturing the quiet revolution
Civil society minister Nick Hurd explains how the government is investing £10m in finding and supporting the most effective social enterprise incubators in the UK Some have described it as a quiet revolution. A growing network of organisations who recognise...
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