Social Enterprise Coalition activity  A look ahead to 2010 A very happy new year to all of our members! Following a successful 2009, which included the first ever Social Enterprise Summit, the first year of the Social Enterprise Awards and the release of the results of the first ever State of Social Enterprise Survey, the Coalition is now looking forward to working with you to build on this momentum into 2010. If you haven't already done so take a look at our Highlights from 2009 pamphlet which gives a round up of all Coalition activity during the past year. 2010 is likely to be a challenging and fascinating one for the movement as we witness the upcoming launch of the new Social Enterprise Mark, likely changes of government, and certain changes in public spending. Here at the Coalition the changes have already begun with the arrival of our new CEO Peter Holbrook who is reaching the end of his first week in charge. Many of you will meet Peter and hear his first speech as CEO at Voice10 which is now less than four weeks away. The conference, which this year will be themed ‘No more business as usual", takes place on February 1-2 in Cardiff. The programme is now available online and booking is well underway so reserve your place now! Headline speakers at the event include Philip Blond and John Denham MP, and the first day of the conference will host the official launch of the new Social Enterprise Mark.
 Consultation response for the Department of Children, Schools and Families The Department for Children, Schools and Families are consulting on the New Statutory Children's Trust Guidance and New Children and Young People's Plan Regulations. This document brings together guidance on Children's Trusts and Children and Young People's Plans into one piece of statutory guidance. It also includes the draft new Children and Young People's Plan regulations. The Coalition will be submitting a response to this consultation. If your social enterprise has worked with your local Children’s Trust or fed in to your area’s Children and Young People’s plan, we’d like to hear about your experiences. Please contact Olof Jonsdottir at olof.jonsdottir@socialenterprise.org.uk – the deadline for our submission to DCSF is Friday 29th January, so we’d be grateful to hear from you by Wednesday 27th.
 DEA Global Learning Charter The Social Enterprise Coalition has recently signed up to the DEA Global Learning Charter. DEA is a national organisation that brings together educational agendas related to globalisation and poverty, sustainable development and community cohesion. DEA's vision is for all citizens to understand the global challenges we face and develop the capabilities to create a more just and sustainable world. The Charter now has over 125 signatories including Oxfam, WWF, Traidcraft, TUC, Amnesty International, Royal Geographical Society and many schools. The Charter forms the centrepiece of a series of initiatives by DEA to raise the profile of global learning. The DEA will be launching the Charter at a reception in parliament in the New Year and inviting signatory organisations will to the reception. Following the launch DEA will lead a range of activities including roundtables and practice-sharing sessions to support signatory organisations to influence policy and practice towards global learning. There will also be opportunities to get involved at a political level locally. To sign up, or if you have any questions, please contact max.hogg@dea.org.uk / 020 7922 7939. To see who else has signed up visit http://www.dea.org.uk/global_charter  News  Payment cap lifted for Community Interest Companies The Regulator of Community Interest Companies has decided to raise the limits on payments they can make to investors. The changes, which will come in to force on April 6, allow CICs to offer dividends of up to 20 per cent without reference to the Bank of England base rate. It is hoped that this will make them more attractive to potential investors. The changes were announced yesterday by the CIC regulator Sara Burgess and were inspired by the results of last years consultation which found that most social investors thought the caps were too low. Head of policy at the Social Enterprise Coalition Ceri Jones said the breaking of the link between the dividend per share and the Bank of England base rate was a 'very positive move'. 'This will allow the return offered by CICs to be based on the performance of the individual company, rather than the market as a whole,' said Jones. The regulator said there would be a review of the caps again in two to three years time. Read the stories in Third Sector and Social Enterprise magazine. To read the full consultation response click here.
 Ethical spending triples over last decade The Co-operative Bank has just published its annual Ethical Consumerism Report for 2009 which shows that consumer spending on ethical products has tripled during the last decade. The report shows that, last year, on average, every household in the UK spent £707 in line with their ethical values, up from £630 in 2006. However, overall ethical spend at £35.5 billion is still a small proportion of the total annual consumer spend of more than £600 billion. Read the story at the Guardian
 Employees buy Scottish robot maker One of Scotland's world-leading design and technology companies has been bought by its 30 employees. Clansman Dynamics, based in East Kilbride, designs and builds robotic handling equipment which is used in forges and foundries in 34 different countries. In just 15 years Clansman Dynamics has become one of the top three companies in the world working in its highly specialised field. In the last three years its annual turnover has increased from £3m to £4.5m to £6.2m, and Clansman Dynamics is now the number one supplier of robotic foundry equipment to China. The transfer to employee ownership has the full and enthusiastic backing of the original owner Dick Philbrick, who did not want the business to be bought be a rival. He wanted to ensure the ongoing success of the enterprise by transferring ownership to the employees who had helped to build the business. This was made possible by the personal investment of the employees topped up by loans from two funds managed by Co-operative & Community Finance (The Co-operative Loan Fund and ICO Fund plc) and from Baxi Partnership, which specialises in employee buyouts. Events  SEASON seminar - Community Shares January 14 Kent SEASON is funded by Capacitybuilders to develop a network for social enterprise advisers in the South East. If you are an individual who is practising as a social enterprise adviser or are undertaking formal training to become a social enterprise adviser in the South East region then you can be a member of SEASON. This seminar will seek to raise awareness about the use of community share model for development and sustainability of social enterprise with practical examples and an opportunity to hear about experiences and tips and getting them established. The cost of the event is £5.00 for SEASON members and £100 for non-members. For further information and bookings contact info@se2partnership.co.uk If you would like to know more about becoming a member of SEASON, please contact jo.white@co-operativefutures.coop
 Plunkett Foundation Conference: Rural Communities - The Right To Try January 27 London The UK is faced with declining or threatened local services, limited job opportunities, not enough affordable housing and looming public expenditure cuts. Plunkett wants to explore new ways to sustain the quality of life in rural communities. This conference will explore what rural community-owned enterprises are doing across the world to take control of the issues affecting rural people. It will highlight barriers which need to be removed in developed and regulated societies like the UK, and the types of support needed to make the right to try a reality. The event will engage practitioners, politicians, policy makers and shapers, funders and support organisations - those with the ability to make change happen. Reduced rates are available for rural, social enterprise and co-operative support organisations. There are also a limited number of free places available to rural community-owned enterprises. Delegate Booking Form Exhibitor Booking Form For further information on this event, please email info@plunkett.co.uk or call 01993 810730.
One Young World Inaugural Summit February 8 - 10 London One Young World is seeking delegates for its Inaugural Summit taking place in February 2010. The event will bring together 1,500 young leaders, aged 25 and under, from every single country in the world. One Young World are still actively looking for Delegates from the public sector, the voluntary sector or any individuals who might have a positive leadership impact on the world, from each of the 192 countries in the world. Potential Delegates will need to be sponsored or paid for by companies and must have been born during or after 1984. For more information on how to stand as a Delegate to attend One Young World click here. If you want to sponsor a Delegate or find out more about how you or your company can get involved click here.
If you are having any problems with the Delegate recruitment process, please contact help@oneyoungworld.com.
 Successful Commissioning: an introduction to developing your health tender February 2, London
February 23, Manchester
March 2, Taunton
March 18, Leicester This one-day training course will provide an introduction to health commissioning for third sector organisations working with children and young people. This course is aimed for those who want to bid for tenders, are unclear about the commissioning landscape and are looking for an introduction to what commissioners want and how to put together your tender.
The training is designed for organisations that offer (or are looking to offer) services for children and young people and wish to explore new opportunities within health and social care.
Training is suitable for voluntary and community organisations of all sizes.
The course is free to voluntary organisations and £299.57 per delegate for statutory organisations. To book your place please click on a date below and register online. For further details, please email training@ncb.org.uk or telephone 020 7843 6084. This training course is part of the Department of Health's Strategic Partner Programme.
 NCVO Innovation Action Training February 11-12 London Innovation can improve an organisation's effectiveness and provide a competitive edge where resources are finite. Led by industry experts, these two individual days of intensive interactive training look at new methods of ideas generation and will give you the practical dkills to make your organisation truly innovative. Programme 11 February 2010 - Diagnostics: How innovative is your organisation and where could you make changes?
- Learn how to make more of your users, participate in an interactive challenge, pitch solutions
12 February 2010 - Service innovation - Inspiration and learning from other sectors
- Crowd sourcing and how to set up your own innovation network
- Fees start at £180 for a single day or £288 for both days and include:
- Free half hour telephone advice for first 18 bookings - Free copy of NCVO's Innovation Matters guide for all participants - Online ‘Ask the Expert' For more information and booking contact Emma Clements emma.clements@ncvo-vol.org.uk, 020 7520 2519. Resources  Legal helpline launched to support co-operatives and social enterprises Every town and village could have access to local food co-operatives or initiatives by 2012, according to a new guide recently published by Co-operatives UK. The guide, Simply Legal, is designed to help community enterprises with all they need to know about legal forms and organisational types for local food. "2009 has been a record year for local food," says Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK. "We have seen more and more initiatives become fully-fledged enterprises, from inner city food co-operatives and farmers' markets through to rural community-owned shops and community supported agriculture. Our Making Local Food Work programme is designed to help them on that journey." ‘Simply Legal' is part of a comprehensive package of support and advice which is provided to new and emerging community food enterprises across England. Alongside the guide, a new telephone helpline on legal forms - 0161 246 2907 - has also been launched. The aim is to help people to take control of their food and where it comes from, with the aim of supporting by 2012, 650 community food enterprises to increase access to and awareness of local food for 1 million people. The 2nd edition of the Simply Legal' can be downloaded at www.cooperatives-uk.coop/SimplyLegal. Member Profile  Social Spider CIC Social Spider is a not-for-profit design, communication and social action agency founded in 2003. The company works principally within the public, charity and arts sectors and is committed to helping people communicate with each other as elegantly and effectively as possible. Any surplus funds support a portfolio of projects designed to further Social Spider's commitment to widening access to opportunities, information and resources. Social Spider's ongoing publishing projects include the Hackney youth magazine, Contrast and One in Four, an aspirational lifestyle magazine produced by and for people with mental health difficulties, distributed across England. http://www.socialspider.com Website of the fortnight  Smarta Smarta provides independent, entrepreneur-led support and is backed by some of the UK's top entrepreneurs including Dragons Den stars Theo Paphitis and Deborah Meade. Visitors to the website can opt to join the Smarta network to access support and advice, showcase their business and make new contacts. The website has recently been redesigned and now includes more tools, free templates and exclusive deals for its members. These features are in addition to latest news stories, video interviews with top business people and blog posts engaging in the latest debates. http://www.smarta.com/ Jobs  Social Enterprise Coalition Senior Research Officer Salary: £ 30,724 pa Contract to 31st March 2010 35 hours per week Social enterprises are businesses trading for social and environmental purposes. The Social Enterprise Coalition is the UK's national body for social enterprise and works on behalf of its members to influence national policy, showcase the benefits of social enterprise and promote best practice. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual with excellent analytical skills and good experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders to support the Head of Policy in the delivery of the Coalition's research programme. The post holder will be required to lead the research work of the Coalition. If you can make an active contribution to the future of social enterprise download an information pack, email recruitment@socialenterprise.org.uk or telephone 020 7793 2323. Download an information pack (PDF) Download an information pack (Word) Download an equal opportunities form Closing date: 12 noon, Wednesday 20th January 2010
Interviews will be held on Monday 25th January 2010 The Social Enterprise Coalition is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Back to the top | 
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