Greetings from RISE HQ and welcome to the February e-bulletin. This issue includes...
• Last chance to book onto the 9th March Business Advisors Network taking place in Exeter. Find more details
• Work, meet, connect and share at Launceston’s new work hub for social entrepreneurs
• Win the ultimate social enter-prize, an exclusive one on one mentoring session with one of the 28 UK Social Enterprise Ambassadors
for the latest series of popular events in Cornwall for emerging and existing social enterprises, delivered in partnership with Business Link and Co-active
. We hope you find this update interesting and varied but not too long. We welcome any feedback, so if you have any news or comments, please let us know.
Assessment Officers
Based in Exeter office or Bristol area. Possibly home-based
Temporary Contract for 1 year (possible extension)
£23,000 pa
Application deadline: Monday 15 March 2010
Interview to be held on Tuesday 23 March 2010, in Exeter
Read More... The Leach Pottery in St Ives is one of eleven institutions long-listed for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize, the UK’s largest single arts prize. The long list has been selected by a panel of Judges chaired this year by broadcaster Kirsty Young. Traditionally the long list comprises ten, but for the 2010 Prize eleven institutions have been nominated, attesting to the high quality and
volume of applications received.
RISE recently made a filmed case study about the Leach Pottery, you can view it
here.
Read More... Upcoming Events:
Event Date: Mar 02, 2010
SW - FREE - Social Enterprise Workshop - Starting in Social Enterprise
Location - Torquay
These workshops are suitable for:
• Newly started social enterprises
• Voluntary organisations and charities wishing to consider developing a social enterprise
• Social enterprises in their first year of trading
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 02, 2010
SW - Lively Leadership - Solutions focussed Communications
Location - Plymouth
To learn, reflect on, and build understanding of the philosophy, value base, tools and techniques of solution-focused communication.
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 02, 2010
Cornwall - Access to Finance and Managing Risk
Location - Penzance
This workshop looks at financial issues for social enterprises in a wide-ranging way; how to assess the financial needs of the enterprise, different sources of finance and their implications, and how to build a sustainable financial future.
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 04, 2010
SW - FREE - Social Enterprise Workshop - Governance and Legal Structures
Location - Dorchester
•Are you involved with a charity or community group that needs to develop a trading arm?
•Does your steering group or committee need to move from unincorporated status to that of a Company?
•Do you want to select the right legal structure for tax and governance purposes?
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 04, 2010
Other - Ministry of Justice Social Enterprise conference 2010
Location - London
Promoting understanding of social enterprises and raising awareness of opportunities to staff across the criminal justice service.
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 04, 2010
Cornwall - Governance and Legal Structures
Location - Truro
• Are you involved with a charity or community group that needs to develop a trading arm?
• Does your steering group or committee need to move from unincorporated status to that of a Company?
• Do you want to learn how to choose the right legal structure?
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 05, 2010
SW - Arts Cafe
Location - Eden Project, Bodelva, Cornwall
Bring in the Spring with a Swing at the Arts Cafe - showcasing the SW’s finest live music & arts.
In the Link, between the Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes. Special live guests
The Zen Hussies - a Soupçon of Swing, a Jelly of Jazz and a Dollop of Dixie. Plus DJs from Jelly Jazz - Funk, soul, jazzy breaks, Latino and swing.
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 09, 2010
RISE - BAN - Help your clients win more contracts and respond effectively to tendering opportunities
Location - Exeter
On the 9 of March, the Business Advice Network event will focus on helping your clients win more contracts by responding effectively to tendering opportunities. Angela Heap will be our key speaker. Angela co-ordinates Social Enterprise London’s European Regional Development Fund Project ‘Opening New Markets’, which focuses on enabling third sector organisations to win contracts. She delivers regular training sessions on policies and procedures required for procurement, with a special focus on environmental policies.
In the afternoon, the business advisor Karin Jordan from Alchemy will be delivering a session on the use of a quick coaching tool/framework that will help you to support clients to explore options and agree a way forward especially when restricted with time.
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 09, 2010
SW - FREE - Social Enterprise Workshop - Starting in Social Enterprise
Location - Springbourne, Bournemouth
The workshop is designed to help your organisation develop good management processes as you identify trading opportunities either for the first time or as an additional activity to current delivery.
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 09, 2010
SW - Using Legal Structures to Enable Community Investment into a Social Enterprise.
Location - Great Bow Wharf, Langport
This seminar will help inform and advise on using more than one legal structure for enterprises, which would enable them to use an IPS to make a public share offer and raise money from the community.
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 09, 2010
Cornwall - Governance and Legal Structures
Location - Launceston
• Are you involved with a charity or community group that needs to develop a trading arm?
• Does your steering group or committee need to move from unincorporated status to that of a Company?
• Do you want to learn how to choose the right legal structure?
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 10, 2010
SW - Fund It, Build It – An essential course for communities involved in capital build projects
Location - Hemyock Village Hall
This course will:
• Help you to explore external funding opportunities.
• Enable you to develop a capital investment plan.
• Check whether your project is investment ready and financially sustainable.
• Develop your skills for writing successful funding bids.
• Meet other funders and support agencies.
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 11, 2010
SW - FREE - Social Enterprise Workshop - Governance and Legal Structures
Location - Bath
• Are you involved with a charity or community group that needs to develop a trading arm?
• Does your steering group or committee need to move from unincorporated status to that of a Company?
• Do you want to select the right legal structure for tax and governance purposes?
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 11, 2010
SW - FREE - Starting in Social Enterprise
Location - Taunton
Don’t miss this FREE
one-day workshop for voluntary organisations and newly started social enterprises
The workshop is designed to help your organisation develop good management processes as you identify trading opportunities either for the first time or as an additional activity to current delivery.
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 11, 2010
SW - Lively Leadership - Supervision: managing, developing and supporting staff
Location - Exeter
Recognise different management styles and develop a clear understanding of the role of a line-manager Raise awareness of your own personal management style, beliefs and attitudes to supervision and recognise and overcome potential barriers to effective supervision.
Develop confidence in using effective communication and listening skills and adopting a solution-focused approach to supervision.
Find out more. Event Date: Mar 19, 2010
Cornwall - FREE - Cornwall - informal one-to-one advice clinics for social enterprise
Location - Par, St Austell - Cornwall
If you are a social enterprise or established community organisation and need good advice to develop your ideas further, here is an opportunity for a one-to-one chat with one of our qualified business advisors.
The advisors are social enterprise specialists and will provide no-obligation, practical advice on how to grow your organisation to the next stage.
Find out more. Would you like to join? RISE is a membership organisation and is open to anyone based in the region who is interested in the social enterprise agenda in South West England. For organisations that provide information, advice and support to social enterprises, RISE provides an enhanced level of membership, called
RISE Additions. RISE Additions provides discounts and benefits, including to RISE training and Business Advice Network.
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