Tag Archives: Social enterprise

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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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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Measuring Social Value Conference – share your views on SROI

By Joe Taylor | Published: 21 October, 2009

“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 [...]

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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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‘Social enterprise and the environment’ event

By Conor Ritchie | Published: 25 June, 2009

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 [...]

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Community-owned shops – Third Sector steps in where the private sector struggles

By Simon Berry | Published: 1 May, 2009

We met this week with our Social Enterprise Strategic Partners and our discussions focussed on how we might raise awareness across Defra of the role social enterprises play in the delivery of the Defra’s strategic objectives. We talked about the many examples there are of this but one struck a particular chord with me. Sarah [...]

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