April, 2010 News

Do you have an idea for a project that will benefit your community? Are you passionate about protecting the environment? Do you want to set up a business employing disadvantaged or unemployed residents, or in the arts and cultural industries or health and social care? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, why not think about setting up a social enterprise?

Tate Liverpool are currently recruiting 'Volunteer Visitor Hosts' to lend assistance during their new exhibition, Picasso: Peace and Freedom. Volunteer's will be expected to undertake a variety of tasks in order to enhance visitor's experience of the exhibition.

Volunteer Visitor Hosts will be required to:

hapPR, veterans of Striding Out's hugely successful social entrepreneur course, are teaming up with Striding Out's own Simon Ireland-Davies to host 'Mind Your Own Business'- a two hour radio show for start-ups and emerging entrepreneurs.

In a world where information is everywhere but finding out what you want is the most difficult job in the world- the hapPR team- Sam Thomas and Dave Thackeray want to go back to business basics with the show.

Don't miss the opportunity to book your place at the fantastic early bird rates. Social Firms UK have extended these so you now have two weeks to book your place to ensure you benefit from the discount.

The 2010 annual Social Firms UK conference is taking place on July 1st and 2nd at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. The conference programme is attached which gives details of the keynote sessions, workshops and costs.

Train2000 are hosting a networking evening on Tuesday 11th May 2010 from 6pm-8.30pm focusing on the theme of 'Increasing Business Sales' (Making NLP Work for your Business) with guest speaker, Zahida Kayum, at the Train2000 offices in Liverpool.

By definition; NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is a way of decoding and reproducing what works in thinking, language and behaviour so that individuals/businesses consistently achieve the results that they want for themselves and their family, team and organisation.

There are currently FREE places available on the Level 2 Introductory Certificate in Purchasing and Supply (CIPS2) training course taking place on Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th May.

Soap Box Films have released their latest quarterly newsletter, providing you with an insight into their latest activities and projects over the past few months.

This quarter's newsletter specifically highlights Soap Box Film's Transformation Fund projects with adults and learning difficulties, a new project that was undertaken with Toxteth TV for Up for Arts, an environmental project, a large scale scheme of work with disadvantaged young people between 13 and 19, and a production project. 

Social Enterprise Network is seeking expressions of interest to deliver services for up to 140 individuals under the Government's Community Task Force project.

SEN member, Dot-Art is delighted to introduce the work of Nicole Renee, an American painter and photographer living in Liverpool. Her highly textured mixed media paintings invite the viewer to appreciate the aesthetic value in the everyday details of the built environment. The exhibition will take place from 4th May to 11th June 2010 and will be open to the public from 12-6pm Monday to Friday.

This is Green Liverpool is a new social enterprise dedicated to raising awareness of green issues amongst the general populace of Merseyside. This is Green Liverpool are currently seeking to develop their products and services, and position themselves to better serve their customers.

As part of this, This is Green Liverpool are looking for as many people as possible to complete a short on-line survey.

Click here to complete the survey. 

Social Enterprise support organisation UnLtd are currently seeking a Knowledge and Learning Manager to work with UnLtd's people to support and develop a dynamic learning culture. 

The role centres around a number of themes and will require you to:

'How to Take Part and Influence People' is a free day of training run by Sefton CVS taking place on Saturday 24th April. The training is for 15-25 year olds and covers a wide variety of topics centred around Community Leadership, Learning Programmes and Information on Influence.

The training on offer is ideal for anyone interested in the Law, Youth Work, Community Work, Politics, Management and more...

Areas covered on the day include:

Liverpool based social enterprise, Brava Design, have delivered a new easy to access and navigate website for DGB Solicitors of the Wirral.

via how-do.co.uk

DGB Solicitors of Wirral has released a new website through creative social enterprise Brava Design.

The firm, which is run by female solicitors Debbie Black and Joanne Kirkham, was looking for a fresh portal to sell its services to new and existing clients, as well as generally increasing its online presence.

Many offices will be 'going green' by installing low power lightbulbs or getting staff to cycle to work, but Liverpool Vision- in association with UrbanAgriculture- would like to propose something more innovative, using offices and buildings to grow things- 'real green'!

Activity could range from putting in growbags to grow salad crops for lunch or hanging baskets to grow herbs right through to the first steps towards creating a roof or terrace garden for staff and visitors to enjoy.

This year's conference, 'Harnessing the Power of Business to Change Lives' will be taking place at Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge University, 1-2 July 2010 and will be co-hosted with Social Firms Europe CEFEC.

The UK conference programme is available to download and will give you a clear idea of the opportunities and benefits attendance will provide.

Want to make people feel proud to buy from you? Think your business would benefit from a clear, competitive edge? Then apply for the Social Enterprise Mark now for your chance to win up to £1000 worth of free advertising for your social business!

If you submit a successful application before May 14th, your company could be ONE of THREE new Mark holders to win this fantastic prize.

Allison Ogden-Newton, Chief Executive of Social Enterprise London (SEL), announced that social enterprise could bring about radical changes in the delivery of education at Social Enterprise London's first social enterprise in education event, Social Enterprise- A brighter future for schools.

Claudia Cahalane socialenterpriselive.com

Social enterprise in education is 'even more challenging than in the NHS or MoJ, but potentially more radical,' the head of Social Enterprise London (SEL) has said.

Delegates at the 'Social Enterprise for All' Conference, hosted by SENW and the Social Enterprise Coalition on Friday 26th March, heard from a broad range of speakers about new investment which has been pledged to help social enterprise in the region.

Via socialenterpriselive.com

A major conference in the North West has been hearing how new funding has been pledged to help establish and support the region's social enterprises.

The Social Enterprise Coalition, the national umbrella organisation for social enterprise in the UK, is currently seeking both a Director of Communications and Marketing and a Business and Operations Director.

Director of Communications and Marketing

£50k-£55k gross pa +6% pension contribution

Central London

SEN member Oakmere Community College, based in Walton, Liverpool, have released their Spring Newsletter.

Click here to read the Spring 2010 Newsletter.

The Women's Enterprise Hub has been set up to service a growing need from female entrepreneurs, who have identified a need for business support and a stable base to grow their business from.

The Women's Enterprise Hub offers many benefits to female entrepreneurs; the main element of which is hot desking space, offered on a flexible membership basis, this also includes an all important meeting space. With five different membership options, ranging from £15 to £200 per month, there is a package to suit the needs and aspirations of any female entrepreneur.

Acorn Farm, Kirkby are currently seeking a 'Day Services Co-ordinator' whose duties will include the co-ordination of the activities of the day services programme for people with disabilities to ensure that the aims of the personalisation agenda are met.

Acorn Farm provide a maximum of 90 day places per week for up to 40 different individuals.

£19,621-£21,519 

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Closing date: 29th April 2010

To view full job information and to download an application form please visit: www.acornfarm.co.uk

Striding Out have launched their Mentor Me, Mentor You Event which is set to take place on Tuesday 27th April 2010 from 6-9pm. Mentor me, Mentor You will equip you to become an effective and confident mentor to your peers.

Attend this event if you want to:

• Learn key mentoring skills
• Empower your peers
• Understand yourself better
• Develop your talents

Striding Out believes coaching is a powerful tool for inspiring, supporting and empowering others, and they want to share these skills with you.

Environmental Social Entrepreneur Matt Smith, of Fresh Minds, is one of a hundred young people chosen from across the UK to participate in the Prime Minister's Global Fellowship programme where he will travel to India to investigate issues of culture, language, education and global enterprise.

The fully funded six week journey is an investigation into the social, economic and environmental effects of globalisation and learning how we can play a positive role in the process.

SEN member LitteredLights.com is the new web 2.0 advice service for VCS organisations, NPO's and Social Enterprises. They are able to offer a wide range of web 2.0 website construction services and more...

'Littered Lights builds websites that draw on the success of the technologies that social media sites use to keep users talking. Virtual Learning Environments (VLE's), Social Networking Environments (SNE's) and dynamic collaborative websites hosted on strong and secure servers are our speciality.