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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Climate change will affect is all. But how will it affect your own community?
We are very keen that third sector organisations do not miss the opportunity for FREE training in the UK Climate Projections tools. These tools are now available online and accessible to everyone. Each region will have a week of ‘Projections in Practice’ (PiP) [...]
BTCV are recruiting trustees
If you would like to help lead a UK-wide charity and social enterprise, read on. The closing date for applications is 5 August 2009.
Today (15/7/09) the Office of the Third Sector (OTS) published a consultation on a Social Investment Wholesale Bank which sets out the vision, the economic case and consults on proposals for the design and functions of a potential bank.
We would urge our Third Sector partners to engage with this consultation. Although it is currently being referred [...]
Defra hosted an Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) Public Policy Seminar entitled ‘Social Enterprise and the Environment’ on Tuesday 23 June.
Presentations by Dr. Mick Blowfield (University of Oxford), Dr. Dan van der Horst (University of Birmingham), Nigel Lowthrop (Founder and Director of Hill Holt Wood) and Julie Hitchcock (Deputy Director for Local and Regional Governance, Defra) were [...]
This is what you get when you put the text of our Third Sector Strategy into a service called Wordle. I did this when I first started my secondment at Defra to help me get another view of the strategy. I am moved to post this now as I am told that this technique was [...]
The following organisations have acted as strategic partners to Defra during the development of our Third Sector Strategy:
Plunkett Foundation
Co-operatives UK
Development Trusts Association (DTA)
Social Enterprise Coalition
RISE
A commitment within the strategy was to formalise our relationship with these delivery partners and form Defra’s Social Enterprise Strategic Partnership. The memorandum of understanding was signed off by all partners [...]
