February, 2010 News

We will be hosting a network event on Friday 5th March 2010 12-4pm at the Racquet Club, Hargreaves Buildings, 5 Chapel Street, Liverpool, L3 9AG where we will be showcasing funding news and opportunities from the BIG Lottery Fund and Charity Bank UK.

Liverpool Transnational Unit in partnership with Stepclever social enterprise, are holding a seminar for social enterprises and other community organisations in the Stepclever area to provide information and advice on transnational funding opportunities at their 'Step Into Europe' event on Friday 26th February 2010.

What is transnational funding?

Liverpool City Council's Community Resources Unit (CRU) currently provides nearly £4million a year to voluntary and community sector organisations to deliver local projects for the benefit of local residents. 

Organisations receive three-year grants to deliver these projects. These are invested through a Funding Framework. This guides how the money is invested to meet local needs across five themes:

To ensure that you are 100% ready to tender, the Greater Merseyside ChangeUp Tendering and Procurement Support Service (TaPS) has produced a series of Continuing Professional Development Workshops, the next in the series being Health and Safety Compliance to be held on Tuesday 2nd March 2010.

Commissioners need third sector bodies to demonstrate that they have control over health and safety risks and operate within a safe working environment. Future contracts will only be awarded to bodies that evidence safe working practices.

The Greater Merseyside Advancement Network Prototype are hosting 'Advance', an end of project celebration event on Thursday 18th March 2010 at Blackburne House, Liverpool.

Although the end of the project period is in sight (31st March 2010) this is only the beginning of the active Advancement Network in Greater Merseyside. Over the last year, with your help, the prototype has developed an excellent launching pad for the new Adult Advancement and Careers Service (AACS) here in Greater Merseyside. 

Enterprise UK are seeking young entrepreneurs in the UK under 30 years of age to enter their 'Enterprising Young Brits' competition. It is a celebration, recognition and reward for the hard work and success of young entrepreneurs.

Entrants can enter two of the categories which are listed below and the finalists will be featured in the Daily Mail and invited to an awards ceremony where the winners will receive cash prizes of £1,000.

Blackburne House are currently seeking a 'Health Place Development Manager' to maintain and develop the Blackburne House Health Place, in line with their social enterprise development strategy.

Salary: £26,000 - £28,000 / 35 hours per week

Main Duties:

Liverpool based social enterprise, Brava Design, have been commissioned to create a new website for the community arts project 'Year of the Tiger' celebrating Chinese New Year 2010. 

via merseysideacme.com

To celebrate Chinese New Year 2010, Brava Design has been commissioned by Heal8 CIC, to create and launch a website for the new community arts project 'Year of the Tiger', which is aimed at British born Chinese.

The Ministry of Justice is hosting a free one day conference on Thursday 4th March at Novotel St Pancras, London to raise awareness of how social enterprises can work within the justice system.

The Ministry of Justice's National Offender Management Service are running the conference to raise awareness of how development trusts and other social and community enterprises are developing innovative and effective solutions to reduce re-offending.

A group of leading social enterprise leaders and policy makers have called for a jobs fund specifically targeted at getting the long term unemployed into work through social entrepreneurship. The demand forms part of a Social Entrepreneurship Policy Group manifesto which sets out a vision of how the social enterprise movement should look over the next 5 to 15 years.

Gemma Hampson socialenterpriselive.com

Liverpool based First Take Video Ltd, an award winning production and training organisation has won funding from The Social Enterprise Loan Fund, allowing it to purchase state of the art equipment and compete at the highest level.

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First Take Video Ltd, an award-winning independent production and training organisation in Liverpool's arts quarter, will soon be competing at the highest level using state-of-the-art equipment thanks to funding from The Social Enterprise Loan Fund (TSELF).

If you're thinking of starting a social enterprise or developing new social enterprise activities and want to make a difference to your local community, then the Social Enterprise Challenge is for you!

Stepclever is running its second free training programme, consisting of 6 half-day training sessions over a 3 week period, to take you step by step through the do's and don't's of starting up a Social Enterprise.

Olof Jonsdittor (Policy Officer) from the Social Enterprise Coalition will be a guest speaker at Liverpool Business School (Liverpool John Moores University) on the Masters in Social Enterprise Management programme on Wednesday March 3rd from 5.30pm to 6.30pm.

The guest speaker will be in Room G17 of the John Foster Building at 98 Mount Pleasant to talk about the policy context for Social Enterprise and will present the newly released Social Enterprise Manifesto, No More Business as Usual.

Social enterprises from across the region are being invited to 'have their say' on the next 10 year Regional Strategy from the North West Development Agency (NWDA).