Happy Social Enterprise Day!
Today (19/11/09) Angela Smith, Minister for the third sector, announced the second phase of the Office of the Third Sector’s £1.3m Social Enterprise Action Research (SEAR) programme, which allows other departments to explore ways in which social enterprises offer solutions to policy problems. The Social Enterprise Action Research programme uses small amounts of Cabinet Office funding to [...]
Green Communities is a programme from the Energy Saving Trust that aims to support, facilitate and promote community energy projects. Whether you want to improve the energy efficiency of a community building, install renewable energy technology to generate your own energy, or promote energy saving – the Energy Saving Trust offers the knowledge, experience and [...]
Liberating Leadership is a new, practical approach that has been developed by the Community Sector Coalition to recognise and support leadership in community groups and collective community activities. It is about leadership in networks and neighbourhoods, street events and sports clubs, parishes and partnerships, temples and tenants associations, festivals and fetes, music groups and mosques.
Liberating [...]
Defra has funded three research projects relating to social enterprise and waste management.
The first of these has been published and provides evidence of the wide range of social, economic and environmental benefits that are gained when social enterprises engage in the delivery of waste services. The report is entitled ”Benefits of Third Sector Involvement in Waste Management“. This research used an abridged version [...]
The Social Enterprise Ambassadors website has been revamped and relaunched. The site features new case studies, photos, videos speaker profiles, news, campaigns and blogs and we are promised much more to come.
The Social Enterprise Ambassadors are leaders of some of the country’s most successful social enterprises and have been engaged by the Office of the [...]
“There is more and more interest in measuring and valuing the impact of organisations on society. The Measuring Social Value Project is hosting a conference where third sector organisations, commissioners and investors will come together to share experiences of how Social Return on Investment (SROI) – one of the most exciting innovations in this field [...]
Hello there! Just a quick post here to introduce myself, I am Joe Taylor and I’m the newest member of the Third Sector Team here in Defra, I joined the team yesterday (19/10/09). I’m really looking forward to working to boost Defra’s capacity to engage with the sector, and also adding to Defra’s capacity to boost the [...]
