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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An important part of the work of the Third Sector team is the raising of awareness within Defra of how the Third Sector can help us develop better policies and deliver on our objectives. We take a multi-channel approach to this and one important channel is Defra’s magazine ‘Landscape’ which is produced to a high [...]
The Baring Foundation today hosted a summit on Voluntary Sector Independence, at which Defra was represented. Framed by a number of expert speakers (including Julia Unwin CBE, Chief Executiveof the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Mark Rosenman, Director of Caring to Change), attendees took part in facilitated working groups – looking at existing pressures on the sector’s independence, and [...]
A couple of Fridays ago (22/5/09), I was invited to attend the last part of a meeting between the Office of the Third Sector (OTS) and its ‘Social Enterprise Ambassadors’ (SEAs). The SEAs are high profile social entrepreneurs who have been engaged by OTS to promote social enterprise more widely especially across government.
I know many [...]
This landed on my desk today and will be of great interest to third sector organisations who know they are doing great things but have difficulty measuring the social and environmental value of these things.
The cover is unexciting but the contents are not. I’ve flipped through this guide and it is very accessible. It describes the [...]
