Newsletter
Sep 28, 2010
Issue 92
Welcome to RISE's September newsletter, hot topics this month include...
• Last chance to enter 'Social Vision: business at its best’ photo competition, the regional prize is a 1 day introduction to film making course at Suited & Booted CIC's studios in Bath. It's also a superb chance to get regional and national coverage for your social enterprise
• Early Bird Discount still available for Good Deals 2010: The UK Social Investment Conference
• Get ready for Global Entrepreneurship week! Don't forget to let us know if you have anything planned for Social Enterprise Day: Thursday 18th November, we'd love to hear from you.
Get in touch.
• Big Society, local solutions at Co-operatives SW's annual conference in Exeter
• FREE E-Workshops to help you get started if you are thinking of an enterprise to benefit your community
• Got an idea for a project but not sure if social enterprise is right for you? Already running a social enterprise but need help to take it to the next level? Book now for Business Link's free series of events, view the dates here:
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Latest News:
Are you a keen photographer or a super social enterprise? Can you take an image that captures the unique and transformative work of social enterprise? Then get involved!
There's a superb range of prizes up for grabs. If you win the regional heat - a 1 day introduction to film making course at Bath-based social enterprise
Suited and Booted CIC will be yours. And national prizes include £750 each for the photographer and the social enterprise featured and £1000 worth of print advertising in Social Enterprise magazine.
Don't delay, the deadline is 5pm on Friday 1 October 2010 Read More... Are you driven by the desire to make a difference in your community?
Do you have an idea or an early-stage project that you want to take to the next level?
Are you persistent, creative and willing to be challenged to make positive change?
Are you over 18 and live in Devon?
Read More... Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 November
IET London: Savoy Place, London
Shaping the social investment marketplace
Read More... In Devon, Adult & Community Services supports the social care needs of older people, adults with disabilities – including learning disabilities, and their carers. A market position statement has been published and feedback is invited.
Read More... 
Social Enterprise London is being funded by Capacity Builders to provide bespoke consultancy support to second tier organisations that provide support to social enterprises. It is intended that the consultancy provided will assist support providers with understanding and developing their own sustainability.
Read More... CEMVO are pleased to welcome Waliur Rahman to their staff, as the new Project Manager for the Capacity Builders’ BAME social enterprise project. Waliur brings valuable experience of working with BAME organisations in capacity building organisations and giving management consultancy in both the voluntary and private sector. He has just transferred from successfully managing CEMVO’s commissioned Future Jobs Fund programme, achieving 100% of the targets and being nominated for a DWP award.
Read More... • 88 countries • 32,000 events • 7.5 million participants • 15th - 21st November 2010
7 days of activities to celebrate and encourage all budding, fledgling and established entrepreneurs.
Make a special note in your diary of Thursday 18th November, which is Social Enterprise day, and stay tuned to the RISE website and Twitter for special updates from us.
Read More... 
Approximately half of the South West’s Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) don’t have a website, and with 17p in every pound now spent online, as well as customers increasingly searching via the web for products and services, now has never been a better time for businesses to have an internet presence.
Google, Enterprise UK, BT, the Department for Business Innovation & Skills and e-skills UK have been working together to develop practical support to help businesses take advantage of the opportunities that the internet offers, through a campaign called Getting British Business Online.
Read More... The Coalition Government wants to build a ‘Big Society’. The Prime Minister says ‘we are all in this together’ and building it is the responsibility of every citizen as well as every Government department. nef (
the new economics foundation) welcomes the broad vision but recognises that everything depends on how the vision is translated into policy and practice. nef offer these questions and proposals to help fill in some of the gaps and bring out the best in the idea of a big society.
Read More... Don't miss Co-operatives SW's annual conference taking place on Tuesday 16th November 2010.
Are you aware of the co-op option (your right to buy, or with community-led initiatives)? If not, come along and find out from those who have walked the talk!
Read More... FREE E-Workshops to help you get started E-Workshops; a practical resource for you to use at a time that best suits you.
Choose from
Starting in Social Enterprise – A Practical Approach and
Working with Volunteers.
Read More... The Shell Springboard Awards programme 2010/11 is now open for entries. Shell Springboard provides a financial boost to innovative, low carbon business ideas from across the UK. £40,000 is awarded every year, no strings attached, to eight businesses with an innovative product or service that will lead to greenhouse gas emission reductions and is commercially viable
Read More... New Directions (Mind in Sedgemoor) are now entering an exciting phase of development and are keen to recruit a new leader (the current Chair steps down at the end of this year) to help manage and move the organisation forward, and achieve better mental health for all.
If you have an understanding of, or a genuine interest in, mental health issues and could spare a few hours a month to support the work of New Directions, they want to hear from you!
Read More... FC United of Manchester is pioneering a new model in football finance with the launch of a £1.5m community share issue.
Read More... Every Community now faces an urgent question: can we find ways of doing more for less?
Read More... Selwood Housing is celebrating this week after achieving the Decent Homes Standard on all homes months ahead of their deadline. In 2000 the Government set a deadline for all social landlords to get their homes up to this standard before the end of the 2010, and Selwood Housing has met this target 5 months early.
Read More... Upcoming Events:
Event Date: Oct 05, 2010
Cornwall - Don’t miss this FREE informal one-to-one advice clinic for social enterprises in Cornwall
Location - Redruth
If you run 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 advisers.
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 11, 2010
SW - Don’t miss this FREE informal one-to-one advice clinic for social enterprises
Location - Salisbury
If you run 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 advisors.
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 11, 2010
SW - Solution-Focused Communication - A Two Day Training Workshop
Location - Plymouth
11th & 18th October 2010.
Tired of getting stuck looking at the problem? This two-day course will leave you thinking and working in a powerful new way. It may change your life.
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 11, 2010
Cornwall - Don’t miss this FREE informal one-to-one advice clinic for social enterprises in Cornwall
Location - St Austell
If you run 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 advisers.
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 12, 2010
Cornwall - Access to Finance and Managing Risk
Location - Penzance
• Is your organisation financially secure and sustainable?
• How would you be affected if grant funding dried up?
• Do you need to borrow money or attract an investor?
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 14, 2010
SW - Plymouth - Don’t miss this FREE informal one-to-one advice clinic for social enterprises
Location - Plymouth
If you run 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 advisors.
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 15, 2010
SW - Social Media for Civil Society
Location - Liskeard (Liskerritt Centre)
Social Media for Civil Society™ is an innovative marketing programme created by Social Traders, a social enterprise that promotes trade for social purpose.
This one day programme enables charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations to improve the marketing of their services and engage directly with customers and supporters using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Slideshare, Wordpress, Google and YouTube.
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 16, 2010
SW - Don’t miss this FREE informal one-to-one advice clinic for social enterprises
Location - Bridgwater, Somerset
If you run 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 advisors.
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 19, 2010
SW - Community engagement
Location - Plymouth
The Duty to Involve makes the links between engagement and empowerment. But how do we create opportunities for participation which empower individuals and communities? How do we enable people to engage in ways that lead to sustainable change?
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 19, 2010
Cornwall - Don’t miss this FREE informal one-to-one advice clinic for social enterprises in Cornwall
Location - Liskeard
If you run 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 advisers.
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 20, 2010
SW - Make Mine an Eco Home
Location - Exeter
Helping to make your home better for you, your pocket and the environment.
This interactive seminar is for homeowners, self-builders, landlords and anyone else wishing to get great ideas and a good grounding in how to carry out a sustainable refurbishment or building project.
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 22, 2010
SW - Torbay - Don’t miss these FREE informal one-to-one advice clinics for social enterprises
Location - Torquay
If you run 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 advisors.
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 26, 2010
Cornwall - Social Enterprise – a Practical Start
Location - Bude
• Do you have a specific idea for a social enterprise, but don’t know how to make it happen?
• During this workshop you will produce a practical action plan to get your project up and running.
Don’t miss this free workshop and advice clinic for anyone involved with or interested in social enterprise.
Find out more. Event Date: Oct 28, 2010
SW - Starting in Social Enterprise - A Practical Approach
Location - Dorchester, Dorset
This workshop is 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
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. 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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