Read on for the latest social enterprise news, jobs and events from the South West and nationally.
News from rise
rise invest time in Big Society Capital event
Minister for Civil Society Nick Hurd and the new Chief Executive of Big Society Capital Nick O’Donohoe were both present at the event, which took place at the Southville Centre in Bristol on Monday… read more
Social Vision photo competition 2011
Since 2009 the competition has set out to find images that show the unique and transformative work of social enterprise. Now in its fourth year, the photography competition is run by Triodos Bank and Social Enterprise UK in association with Social Enterprise Live. This year there are two award categories: the people’s vote and overall winner…
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South West community food enterprises take their wares to Westminster
The event, run by rural communities charity Plunkett Foundation and held at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) gave South West social enterprises a unique opportunity to talk directly to Defra policy makers about their work, and how best they could be supported…
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Jobs
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Community enterprise advisor wanted at Selwood Housing
30 hours per week, 12 months fixed term contract
Salary: £22,000 per annum, pro rata
Closing date: Tuesday 20th September 2011
Interview date: Monday 26 September 2011
28 hours per week. Fixed term from 30th August – 16th December 2011…
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Head of Finance and Governance wanted at Pluss
Salary: £45,000 plus 10% car allowance or leased car
Location: Exeter
Term: Permanent and full time (willing to consider job share/part time for suitable candidates)
Closing date: 28th September 2011
Other news
Business Support surgery sessions – tender opportunity
Social Enterprise UK are looking to work with a social enterprise support body for an upcoming event they are delivering under the Department for Education overarching strategic partnership programme….
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Best Practice for Oil Buying Groups
Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) in collaboration with Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Consumer Focus, Citizen’s Advice and the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) are encouraging heating oil customers to buy early to avoid running out of fuel this winter….
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Jobcentre Plus Southern England Group Newsletter
If you are interested in keeping up to date with the welfare reform agenda and other key changes within Jobcentre Plus, take the time to subsribe to their newsletter…
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Interested in Social Impact Measurement? The Guild need your help
Following on from the success of The Guild’s Getting Started in Social Impact Measurement guide, The Guild is currently developing a do-it-yourself tool to help small and medium-sized organisations look more closely at their impact. The Guild want to translate the straightforward and appropriate advice they give face-to-face to consultancy clients into an affordable interactive toolkit for those organisations who don’t have the budget for more extensive support…
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A new peer support network for micro social care and support providers in Devon
The availability of local micro social care and support services can play a key role in ensuring that people with Personal Budgets and people who pay for their care and support themselves, have increased choice and diversity of great local services that they can use to help them live the life they choose…
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Looking back to the future – South West RDA legacy events
The South West RDA has been operating for 13 years, investing nearly £2 billion in over 4,000 projects. What has been learnt from all that? What worked and what didn’t? Can the RDA’s successors do it better? …
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Department of Health – Third Sector Investment Programmes Innovation Excellence and Service Development Fund 2012-13
The Innovation, Excellence and Service Development Fund provides funding to support projects in the health and social care field. The available funding is very limited and, to be successful, organisations will need to have a clear focus in their applications on how their proposed projects would support and drive forward new ideas, excellence or developments in services in health and social care…
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UK’s smartest 100 small businesses unveiled – CoaST named as a top 100 winner!
Smarta.com and O2 present the UK’s most dynamic and innovative small businesses…
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Special offer on marketing emails
In order to mark and celebrate Social Enterprise Day, Cascade is pleased to offer a 50% discount on all marketing emails sent on behalf of customers (to over 2,000 email contacts) for events being held during November 2011…
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Trading for Sustainability – free taster events run by Devon SSE
Devon SSE are running a special tailor-made action learning programme aimed at practioners, artists and organisations in the arts and creative industries that are facing the loss of public funding for their work…
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Connecting Devon and Somerset Local Broadband Plan published
The document can be downloaded from the Connecting Devon and Somerset website. The aim of the project is to, “deliver faster Broadband for all by 2015 and Superfast Broadband for all by 2020″…
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Featured member
Recycling since 1990, Paperchain offer a fully comprehensive, friendly and efficient recycling service. Operating out of Exeter in Devon, Paperchain are a local, Social Enterprise Co-operative.
Paperchain specialise in providing cost effective and flexible recycling and confidential destruction solutions as a regular collection or one off archive clearance. With Paperchain’s services already being used by over 600 local businesses and other organisations you can be confident knowing your waste is being managed in a professional and legal manner complying with The Environmental Protection Act. Paperchain can help your business reduce its waste going to landfill and improve your Environmental and Social responsibility.
Paperchain carefully make sure that all of the recycling they take really is recycled and in the most environmentally considerate way possible.