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Do you have an idea for a new social venture? Want to win up to £5,000 and a tailored support package to help you explore the viability of turning your idea into a social enterprise?

Pacificstream in partnership with UnLtd and HEFCE are running a competition to search for tomorrows social entrepreneurs.

Red Dot are staging two weeks or workshops at the Liverpool Centre for Arts Development (LCAD) based on Brownlow Hill in Liverpool city centre from 6th September to 16th September.

All workshops run from 10.30am to 1.30pm except on Wednesday 15th September.

For each workshop there will be a strict limit of ten participants. (Support workers will be very welcome to accompany their clients)

The building has full access for disabled people.

Following on from the success of last years event, SENW will be holding it's 2010 Trade Fair on 18th November at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral.

Fantastic opportunities for trading and inter-trading, networking and participation in workshops on contracting with social landlords, franchising, the Personalisation Agenda and much more.

The second wave of the National Survey of Charities and Social Enterprises has been launched today (6/9/10), giving charities, social enterprises and voluntary and community groups in every local authority area an opportunity to have their voices heard.

This one-day conference looks at the opportunities and implications of the 'right to request' and the 'right to bid' and the different businesses and delivery models being adapted and implemented by local authorities and health service providers.

Providing key international insights the conference explores methods to ensure that operations are well-managed and scalable and how social enterprise models can and will benefit existing public services.

The Big Society Network is an organisation that exists to help people achieve change in their local area. It aims to benefit people who help community groups and social enterprises from existing and new legislation that supports The Big Society.

This meeting will provide the first opportunity to share your thoughts and ideas with the Big Society Network team. The event will be facilitated using open space technology which will enable all participants to shape the agenda.

The School for Social Entrepreneurs is set to expand both nationally and internationally. The School which has 10 franchises across England and Wales, including one in Liverpool, based in Blackburne House, is seeking to develop following another busy year.

via David Ainsworth, thirdsector.co.uk

The School for Social Entrepreneurs is planning to extend its services in England and move into Wales, as well as opening schools in New Zealand and Canada.

Striding Out is giving 10 young people the opportunity to take part in a Summer Academy to help them develop their own social enterprise.

The Social Pioneer Summer Academy is for young people aged 18-25 who are resident in Liverpool, and have an idea for a social enterprise. A social enterprise is a business which operates for a social or environmental purpose and impact, and reinvest's its profit to further support its cause and mission.