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 [...]
As Compact Week nears the end we have today (6/11/2009) published our Third Sector Strategy ‘One Year On’ report (PDF 1MB). The report discusses the progress we have made on the range of commitments we made in our Third Sector Strategy (PDF 4.17MB).
The report is accompanied by a detailed annex (PDF 920KB) which contains a commentary on the [...]
We are very pleased to have been shortlisted as a finalist for the Compact Award for Excellence at a National Level in this year’s Compact Awards. This is awarded to a national partnership, Government department or a national third sector umbrella body for outstanding achievement in promoting and implementing the letter and spirit 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 [...]
Lucy Findlay (RISE) | Clare Joy (Hornbeam Centre) | Mary Rayner (Co-operatives UK) | Marlene Barrett (Hornbeam Centre)
One of the roles of Defra’s Social Enterprise Strategic Partnership (SESP) is to raise awareness within Defra to the role social enterprises play in the delivery of Defra’s policy objectives. Our SESP do this in a variety of [...]
Vertical Garden at CaixaForum in Madrid
Image credit: Patrick Breen
Guy Thompson, Executive Director, External Affairs at Natural England, addressed Defra’s Third Sector Advisory Board on Monday (5/10/09). Guy highlighted the value of the third sector to the work of Natural England. He indicated that Natural England were working to publish their third sector policy statement in line with the commitment [...]
Co-operatives UK (one of Defra’s Social Enterprise Strategic Partners) launched ACT ! – a new campaign to get all members of co-operatives to act on climate change before the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December.
ACT ! – Addressing the Climate Threat – is a Europe-wide campaign which aims to co-ordinate and promote the activities of co-operatives across [...]
As part of the consultation on the refreshed Compact, the Commission for the Compact has arranged a series of events across the country addressing various themes. Below is the latest breakdown of these events (a few details are missing, but the core content is there). Please note that the first event is scheduled for Thursday 3 September [...]
