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Defra wins social action research contract

By Joe Taylor | Published: 19 November, 2009

 
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 [...]

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Liberating Leadership – a fresh perspective from the community sector

By Joe Taylor | Published: 16 November, 2009

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 [...]

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Third Sector Strategy ‘One Year On report’ published

By Third Sector team | Published: 6 November, 2009

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 [...]

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New Social Enterprise Ambassadors website launched

By Joe Taylor | Published: 22 October, 2009

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 [...]

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Rural Communities Taking Control of Service Provision for Older People

By Third Sector team | Published: 22 July, 2009

[Guest blog post by Mike Perry of the Plunkett Foundation]

‘Working Together for Older People in Rural Areas’, a joint project between the Social Exclusion Task Force and Defra, launched their findings last week. The project findings highlighted a range of challenges in providing services to older people in rural areas. A principle finding was that [...]

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Have we got the balance right?

By Simon Berry | Published: 24 April, 2009

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 [...]

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Defra launches third sector strategy

By Simon Berry | Published: 3 November, 2008

Today we launched our third sector strategy with the help of three Ministers: Hilary Benn (Secretary of State, Defra); Huw Irranca-Davies (Defra’s third sector minister); Kevin Brennan (OTS) and Joan Ruddock (DECC).
This is the culmination of more than a year’s work with the third sector and across the various divisions within Defra. Thanks are due [...]

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