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Tag Archives: social enterprise
Growing Your Co-operative, Bristol
Last Friday (11 November 2011), I was at the Cooperatives-SW annual conference at the Cube Cinema in Bristol, titled “Growing Your Co-operative” and sponsored by the Co-operative Membership South and West. It was another sold-out event, featuring headline talks from … Continue reading
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Tagged bristol, co-op, community, conference, cooperatives, event, meeting, networking, social enterprise
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RISE Faces Demutualisation Threat at EGM
The RISE co-op is the sole shareholder in the Social Enterprise Mark CIC and its members have been called to an Extraordinary General Meeting during the lunch break of next Tuesday’s “Knowing and Growing” conference at UWE Bristol. The RISE … Continue reading
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Tagged board, co-op, consultation, cooperative, meeting, RISE, social enterprise
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Help with co-op development? Don’t ask here
The blog is back. We’ve moved it to our new blog hosting (please contact us if you’d like us to host your blog – or if you spot a problem with our blog), so the adverts are gone and I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged advice, co-op, cooperatives, cooperatives-uk, legalities, social enterprise, somerset
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Co-operatives Fortnight and Congress 2011 (#coops14 and #cc11)
It’s Co-operatives Fortnight until 9 July and our co-op is supporting many events: This afternoon (Wednesday 29 June), we’ll be at Co-operative lending and ethical investment in Bristol; Tomorrow, we’ll be at a Co-operative Business Breakfast in Glastonbury; Next Friday, … Continue reading
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Tagged co-op, conference, cooperatives, cooperatives-uk, event, social enterprise, software
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Forthcoming Attractions
Members of our co-op will be attending: North Somerset Cycle Forum, Yatton, Somerset, 9 September 2010 A Roundtable Discussion about Bristol City Council’s Future Web Platform (#BCCWeb), Bristol, 10 September 2010 Futures North, Leeds, 11 September 2010 Bristol Business Show, … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Training and Information
Tagged bristol, business, co-op, conference, cooperative, cooperatives, event, Koha, meeting, phone, social enterprise, uk
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Fairtrade Fortnight 2010: Fairtrade and IT
We’re in the middle of Fairtrade Fortnight and it seems like the most advertised one yet, with Cadbury’s adverts joining the push of this year’s “big swap” theme: replace some of the stuff you’d usually buy with Fairtrade alternatives. For … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged electrical, ethical, ethics, event, fairness, fairtrade, hardware, IT, social enterprise, sustainability
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Funding Networking, Coops and SocEnt
As an aside to yesterday’s Another Network Begins note, I should mention that one of the challenges of running any inter-business project is paying for it. It surprises some people that many great cooperative projects are running on very small … Continue reading
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Tagged cabinet office, cooperatives, enterprise, funding, government, networking, social enterprise
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Book Review: Creating a World Without Poverty
I was referred to Creating a World Without Poverty during a discussion on advogato some months ago, but it took rather a long time to obtain the book for various reasons and then I forgot about this review until a … Continue reading
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Tagged advogato, book, book review, cooperatives, corporation, Creating a World Without Poverty, ed mayo, grameen, microfinance, nobel prize, review, socent, social enterprise, uk
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Bristol Social Enterprise Summit Consultation
Last Thursday, I went to the Social Enterprise summit regional workshop that I mentioned. Apparently, SEC are hoping that ministers Mandelson, Purnell, Byrne and Blears will be at the summit, along with people from various famous co-ops. I took along … Continue reading
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Tagged consultation, cooperatives, social enterprise, summit, third sector, ttllp
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What do you want to tell a Social Enterprise Summit?
There is a Social Enterprise summit in London in May with cabinetoffice.gov.uk/thirdsector. As part of representing TTLLP to Cooperatives-SW, I will be at a regional workshop this afternoon “to enable the sector to input the summit”(?). More detail is available … Continue reading
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Tagged consultation, cooperative, new blood, rebalanced, recession, scaling up, social enterprise, summit
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