The Arthur Guinness Fund, UnLtd and Rathbone have joined forces to create the Guinness Bring It To Life Awards, offering new young entrepreneurs with a community changing idea the chance to get started. Aimed at ideas driven…
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What I want to be……… Daycare Trust are asking children and young people of all ages to join them to celebrate National Childcare Week 12th – 16 th July. The art competition is…
The Digital Participation Fund deadline is approaching. Applications have to be with the fund by 5.00 p.m. on the 1st. June 2010, for this first round. Designed to support initiatives that increase participation in…
The government is to spend £3million pounds on training children’s centre outreach workers. This is a drive to ensure that the most disadvantaged families are reached and the needs of all children and…
Nathaniel Whittemore has just published an interesting reflection on the role of business practices in social entrepreneurship. His work appears on the change.org site. The context of his article was a critique of the management…
We have been reading our positive psychology manuals this week. We have a number of projects undertaking governance change and developing a positive culture, flat organisations without ego driven collateral damage and still have…
Getting your social enterprise or community business to the first £100,000 of turnover is the hardest part of your journey. Systems, structures, policies, products, people and partners all have to be engaged, transformed…
I wonder which book it was for you that made sure you were a reader for life? Schools have always been places where, at the very least there were shelves of books and…
The Supply National SME Engagement Programme is an initiative to raise awareness of, and to make more effective, the ability of smaller enterprises to bid for public sector contracts. By visiting the NSEP…
The increase in the free entitlement from 12.5 hrs to 15 hrs a week (when delivered in term time) is already being implemented in some local authorities. Its intention is to improve access…