SEEM - Social Enterprise East Midlands

This joint venture sees a ‘Meet the Buyer’ Open Day to be held at BVSC in Birmingham on Friday 20th January. The event forms part of Midland Heart’s ongoing commitment to working with a variety of community organisations including social enterprises within their supply chain. This is a great opportunity to come along and to [...]

Taking on an intern can seem daunting.  How will you manage their time?  Are there hidden HR and legal issues?  How do you develop an intern training programme?  How will your organisation benefit?  This workshop shows you the best way to recruit an intern, how to build connections directly with universities, as well as how [...]

National bodies such as NAVCA say there is likely to be a decrease in grant funding by public authorities in future and a greater reliance on competitive tendering for contracts. Because of this, organisations are increasingly looking at nationally and internationally recognised quality standards to maximise scores in bidding for contracts. These workshops tell you [...]

Friday 20 January – Survive & Prosper Coffee from 9.30 AM; Event begins at 10 AM and concludes at 12.30 with lunch. This free event will provide an overview of advice and assistance available to organisations in the Third Sector – from the smallest community groups and charities, through to larger voluntary organisations and social [...]

Ambitions to Expand and Grow? We know : there is an explosion of social enterprises start-ups, 14% are less than two years old three times the proportion of start ups among mainstream small businesses are SE’s CIC first new legal form in 100 years, since 2005, there are 5000 and growing fast SE’s twice as [...]