SEEM - Social Enterprise East Midlands

SEEM are the voice of social enterprise in the region and as such we pride ourselves on making local and national social enterprise news as widely available as possible through our website.

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• Co-operatives UK launch Move Your Money campaign
  February 22, 2012

  A new public campaign has been launched by Co-operatives UK called Move Your Money. Based on a similar campaign in the United States, it is aims to encourage people to move their current and savings accounts to co-operative, mutual and ethical providers – specifically, credit unions, building societies and The Co-operative Bank.  As an organisation with a mission to grow [...]

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• Gedling CVS host tender writing events

  Investing in the Future   Q Are you looking for alternative ways to generate income? Q Have you considered tendering for public sector contracts?  Q Not quite sure how to go about it successfully?  If the answer is YES to any of the questions this series of training events offered by Gedling CVS in conjunction [...]

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• SROI Practitioner Training in Birmingham

  SROI is an approach to understanding and managing the impacts of a project, organisation or policy. It is based on stakeholders and uses financial value of the important impacts identified by stakeholders to identify what is important to them. SROI is an approach to understanding and managing the value of the social, economic and environmental outcomes [...]

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• House of Commons meets the next generation of social entrepreneurs
  February 21, 2012

  On the 7th of February some of the country’s most ambitious young people showed MPs exactly what social enterprise is about, at a special House of Commons reception to celebrate, motivate and profile the next generation of social entrepreneurs. Hosted by Oliver Colville MP, with keynote speech from Minister for Civil Society Nick Hurd, and [...]

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• Commissing Social Enterprise Conference

  The launch of the Open Public Services White Paper last year and the introduction of the Public Services (Social Value) Bill in Parliament has meant that the role of Social Enterprise in public service delivery is becoming ever greater. With greater emphasis now being placed on the consideration of social value in public sector contracts, [...]

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