ABC Life Support

Delivering first aid training for all regardless of social or demographic limitations

Let's Talk Good Finance Essex

PowerPoint presentations from this great event can be found here.

Realise Futures

Designed and delivered a first aid course to support rough sleepers in Ipswich.

Realise Futures working with the community

Creating more learning and development opportunities

Social Enterprise: Hidden Revolution event success!!

Presentations (ppts) from this great event celebrating our sector

Colchester Socent Receives a Prestigious United Nations Invite

Invitation to final press conference of The Special Rapporteur, Professor Philip Alston, at the International Maritime Organisation.

#SocEnt Dental Service Introduces Pet Therapy Pilot

Community dentists in Suffolk are introducing a new service for anxious patients.  

10th Birthday Celebrations

Poppy's Pantry celebrates a decade of serving the community 

Focus on Success

Cambridge SocEnt launch service that aims to provide local teens with personalised guidance and support

 

 

#BuySocial:The KitchenFront CIC

We sell an improvement in health and wellbeing by teaching cookery education and basic cooking skills running classes for the elderly, unemployed, disabled, bereaved and carers.

#BuySocial: Turtle Dove

Integrating, encouraging and esteeming young women into the community of Cambridge.

#BuySocial: Overstream Clean

Overstream Clean helps people keep their offices clean and gardens tidy with a clean conscience

#BuySocial: ABC Life Support

A CIC devoted to delivering impactful, firstaid and mentalhealth first aid training for all.

#BuySocial: Lighthouse Furniture

Where you can buy anything to turn your house into a home at great prices (discounted for those on means tested benefits)

#BuySocial: Realise Futures

Six flourishing businesses including  cafes, veg boxes, eco furniture and wholefood.

#BuySocial: Emmaus Suffolk

Clothing all genres, shoes, bags, jewellery,furniture, electrical, books,  CDs DVDs, Upcycled one off creations of Furniture, soft furnishings, jewellery,SESI refillable vegan friendly household products,Re-made chalk paints, and we have a café too selling drinks and cakes

#BuySocial: Hoot With Me

Bespoke educational workshops for students of all ages to nurture nature, wildlife, conservation & to step in to the predatory world of owls.

#BuySocial: Rowan

Rowan is an Arts Centre run specifically for Adults with Learning Disabilities during the day and the community in the evening and weekends

#BuySocial: Emmaus Cambridge

Second hand and pre-loved goods, furniture, bric-a-brac, electrical, clothes, jewelry, bicycles, household items, crockery, clocks, vintage items

#BuySocial: Food4Food

Delicious buffets and training people in catering skills to change lives

#BuySocial:The Edge Cafe, Cambridge

Community café, working with people in recovery from addiction -delicious food

#BuySocial Burwell Print

Digital printing from cheap and cheerful flyers to glossy reports, invitations, and up to A0 printing for architects' plans etc.

Dentists Talk Makaton

Community dentists in Suffolk have become the first in the country to be recognised as Makaton friendly 

Another win for Realise Futures

Realise Futures wins three-year contract to support people in Suffolk with learning disabilities and/or autism

Realise Futures opens new learning centre in Ipswich

The centre offers adult learners a wide range of courses, including maths and English, skill for work, IT, health and wellbeing and family learning.

 

Movers and Shakers: New appointment at Realise Futures

Ipswich-based social enterprise Realise Futures has promoted Jane Sutton to the position of Business Systems Director

Where does it come from?

Creating a range of tunic tops and accessories using organic, rain fed cotton from Uganda, which will be tailored by a social enterprise in Malawi.

Lofty Heights CIC helping young people to reach new heights...

Actively helping NEETs in Ipswich

Disability employment gets a boost in region says disability champion Realise Futures

Securing the future of thousands of jobs for disabled employees around the country.

Happy 6th Birthday

Leading Lives celebrates!

Cambridge Consultants inspire the next generation of STEM innovators

Cambridge #socent Form the Future continues to inspire

Introducing Homeward Bound

Lofty Heights CIC helping local CCG with hospital discharge

Charity Property Matters Survey 2018

Worrying results: over half of charities see property as a problem.

New Home for CDS at Colworth Park

CDS CiC, a Social Enterprise that provides community dental services and oral health improvement programmes across Central and Eastern England has relocated.

Visiting dentist made easier in Essex

#socent breaking down barriers to dental services

#SocEnt keeps tide of plastic at bay with its recycled plastic furniture

Realise Futures doing it again...!

On the move.....

Realise Futures Learning and Development moves its learning centre to a new home in Stowmarket town centre

What a result!!

Suffolk Based social enterprise Realise Futures Fulfilment wins contract to pack for Adnams

Dentists learn to talk Makaton

#SocEnt CDS is working hard to become a Makaton Friendly organisation 

Good Ofsted Rating

Adult community learning courses across Suffolk delivered by Realise Futures Learning and Development retains Good Ofsted grading

Are you starting or growing an impact business?

Could you benefit from up to £100,000 in loan funding?

Local music social enterprise awarded £60,000

Noise Solution, using music technology to engage with marginalised young people 

Realise Futures wins contract to deliver the government’s Work and Health Programme

Supporting people with health conditions and disabilities in Suffolk

Crowdfunding campaign

With the goal of giving bicycles to refugees arriving in Norwich.

First class job!

A team from #socent Realise Futures provides gardening services to local school

#SocEnt: Your Own Place Needs You!

Opportunity to become a mentor and receive some first class training whilst preventing homelessness!

TheGivingMachine (TGM) are delighted to announce

Social Impact Accelerator FSE Group have provided an injection of capital to help them delver more impact

Cambridge Social Venture’s newest graduate has launched mamoq

#buysocial and shop consciously made clothing, accessories and more! 

Community Dental Services wins two national awards in one week.

Health and Social Care Social Enterprise of the Year and the Employee Owned Business of The Year

Let's Talk Good Finance

An event in Cambridge oozed with information....

Mental Health Hackathon:

Giving young people the chance to shape  future health services

Result! Form the Future CIC

Phenomenal local support results in funding for new student enterprise programme

#Social Saturday 2017

Support Cambridge's thriving Social Enterprise sector on Saturday 14 October and make a difference with your shop

Social Enterprises making an impact in Cambridgeshire

The Edge cafe a community café working with people in recovery from addiction

Launch of patent-pending app, Mindz, set to revolutionise wellbeing

Mindfulness more measurable, thanks to new motion-guided smart-phone app  

Social Enterprise: all aboard?

Should social enterprises have a monopoly on 'social'? Simon Lee associate solicitor at Hempsons tells us what he thinks...

Allia joins expert judging panel

At the 8th Discovering Startups competition and offering a prize too!

NatWest WISE100 highlights women's leading role in social enterprise sector

Nominations now open

Social Investment in Essex: A Research Report

The research explored the potential within VCSE sector to seek investment from social investment providers

Could you provide the spark that inspires a lifetime of ambition?

'Mentoring the Disengaged' is a programme to help address the massive wealth disparity which exists within Cambridgeshire.

National Lottery funding expands outdoor activity for people with dementia

Dementia Adventure has received nearly half a million pounds from the Big Lottery Fund

Sniffy Wiffy pitches cancer awareness skincare products to ASDA

Sniffy Wiffy's founder shares her experience at ASDA's SocEnt Supplier Development Academy

Charities join forces at one-day conference

To bring more investment to Essex for social good 

A Bridge to Social Investment

Presentations from a range of exciting speakers following SEEE's event in Essex.

Dementia Adventure Forms Special Interest Group

To inform and guide the organisation's work

WISE100 List launched to celebrate leading women in social enterprise

Women in Social Enterprise...

Dementia Adventure Partners with Care Farming UK

A pilot project delivered successfully!!

Drink Coffee, Change Lives

Social enterprise We Walk the Line arrives in Colchester and invites you to the launch.

Volunteering Opportunities available with Dementia Adventure

Opportunity to make a fantastic contribution to a great organisation- training provided

An early Christmas present for heyCambridge!

Costello Medical has teamed up with hey!Cambridge to design a whole new brand 

Award Winning #socent

Lucy Humphrey, Chair of Leading Lives receives the Employee Owner of the Year award

holidays for people with dementia

Dementia Adventure launches even more supported holidays in 2017

STPs, MCPs, PACS and You!

Understanding the latest round of NHS changes and being ready to respond.

State-of-the-art Innovation Lab opens in Peterborough

Outstanding design, prototyping and testing facilities now available for use by the region's entrepreneurs, engineers and inventors

Dementia Adventure receives Innovation 50 Award

Recognised as one of Essex's top 50 innovative businesses.

Cambridgeshire Awarded Social Enterprise Place Status

One of only 19 such areas in the UK!

For your next event choose a building that makes an impact

20% off first room booking for SEEE members

Charity Bank grows its approved loan book

Big Society Capital invests a further £5 million

Cambridge Social Ventures has a lot on offer...

Cambridge Social Ventures is on the hunt again for social ventures ready to grow and scale up their impact

Hertfordshire Independent Living service wins National Award

Meals on Wheels Award at the 2016 National Association of Care Catering Awards 

Thinking Differently About Dementia – Non Clinical Falls Prevention Training

Dementia Adventure's approach

Your vote is needed...

Give Cambridge project its chance to be in spotlight

Funding to help unpaid carer think differently about dementia

Dementia Adventure is delighted to have been awarded £3k from Fowler Smith & Jones.

Tech4Good Awards finalist

Vote for TheGivingMachine for using technology to make a positive impact

Supervised Tooth Brushing for National Smile Month

Community Dental Services (CDS) Oral Health Promotion Team visits local school

Thinking Differently about Dementia

First E-Learning Webinars Successfully Completed

‘Thinking Differently About Dementia’ at Batsford Arboretum

Inspiring, inclusive and informative training event

Hey Cambridge

Cambridge Family Social Enterprise Ltd responds to a gap in care for children and yp with mental health issues -Hey Cambridge

GAP Learning – a growing family

Latest in the new More Expert by Experience series by Chris Lee

 

The Feed – a recipe for resilience

Latest in the new 'More Expert by Experience' series by Chris Lee

Your Own Place - Seeking security

Chris Lee interviews SEEE member Rebecca White, Your Own Place CIC's Director and Founder

A cultivating time for social enterprise staff.

Back to school for Nowton Gardening Team as they help cultivate college grounds

Dementia Adventure: First Social Licence Launches

Growing the Dementia Adventure movement with Dementia Adventure in a Box!

Dementia Adventure awarded additional £25,000 funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery

Dementia Adventure is one of 57 charities that will receive the extra £25,000 award 

Rooms available to hire across Suffolk

Realise Futures is giving community groups and local businesses the chance to hire its rooms at learning centres.

Dementia Adventure delivers Dementia Friendly Walk Leader Training to the Kent Wildlife Trust

Helping people to retain a sense of adventure

Online shoppers urged to unlock free donations in 2016

Charity cashback website TheGivingMachine is keen to enlist thousands more supporters 

#socent pushes the boat out with a galleon made out of recycled plastics

An impressive new product!

CDS Helping Crisis at Christmas’ Volunteer

Christmas by providing two fully equipped Mobile Dental Units to their dental teams volunteering to treat the homeless of London.

Learners succeed in courses from Realise Futures and MyGo in Ipswich

Young people celebrate good results after attending two-day accredited adult social care courses in Ipswich

New loyalty card for Suffolk social enterprise

Poppy's Pantry in Woodbridge, has launched a loyalty card scheme that has proved a hit with customers.

Gardening team branches out for conservation

Social enterprise Growing Places are putting their well-used garden forks and hoes to another good use 

#socent #management #skills

Anglia Ruskin's successful charity and social enterprise management course returns with a new Cambridge based intake in September 2016

Dementia Adventure announces holidays and respite breaks

Thanks to the support of players of People's Postcode Lottery and the Dementia Adventure Trust

Menta Jelly !!

The aim of Menta Jelly is to provide a free meeting space for like-minded people to work together and exchange help and advice.

Read about Dementia Friendly Project

Dementia Adventure successfully completed an 18-month consultancy and training programme with Age UK 

New sponsor for Coffee Means Business, Woodbridge

Menta has secured a new sponsor for its monthly networking events 

New year - new skills...

Realise Future's launch new courses in 2016 for adult learners and enrolment dates

#socent help health smiles in Luton

Community Dental Service and the Luton Children's Centres are working together to provide all the positive oral health messages 

Time for wholefood lot of fun!

at Woodbridge wholefood shop Poppy's Pantry

CDS Healthy Smiles Award

Community Dental Services (CDS) CIC held the first Healthy Smiles Award on Wednesday 25 November at their Dental Care Centre.

Leading Lives Wins Top Honours in National Award

Leading Lives named as Health and Social Care Social Enterprise of the Year in the prestigious Social Enterprise UK Awards  

Realise Futures launches range of workshops at new Bury learning centre

Chance to learn new skills with course at House at Nowton

CDS Wears Something Blue

For Mouth Cancer Action Month

How to get a foot on the supply chain?

What can be done to help social enterprises become part of the supply chain of larger organisations?

Is the Social Value Act understood?

Discussion piece at SEEE's A Conversation with social enterprise event.

Partnership structures (with the commissioning models seeking prime vendors)

Discussion feedback taken from SEEE's A Conversation with Social Enterprise 

Dementia Adventure’s Family Carers Seminar

A team member's perspective

Realise Future's cafe re-opens

Deputy Mayor declares fresh look for Poppy's Panty a success

Luton Town Football Club charity of the year is CHUMS

College and Club work together to support Luton Town charity of the year.

Businesses get free digital advice

Free digital advice from Realise Futures Learning and Development

Great Yarmouth's social entrepreneurs showcase their success

With a little help from SEEE....!

Mosted trusted social enterprise

The Giving Machine wins this prestigious award

Impact Award success for SEEE member Dementia Adventure

This £25,000 'Impact Award' has been awarded to help improve the practice of impact assessment. 

Staff rise to occasion with bake off boost for charity

Realise Futures CIC raises money for STOW - Supporting Tanzanian Orphans and Widows

Careers workshop by Realise Futures takes off at Wattisham

Careers advice for non-military family members who are looking for employment opportunities.

CDS teams up with Wates

CDS Provide On-Site Dental Health Checks to Busy Building Contractors for Wates Smartspace

Crowdfunding to raise £15,000

Your Own place helping homeless young people in Norfolk into work

Forest of Dean a dementia friendly community

Dementia Adventure CIC actively helps those with dementia participate in nature based activities.

Community Dental Service (CDS) Announce new contract

CDS to provide oral health promotion services in Leicestershire

A Mountain Railway Adventure - Bespoke Holiday in Snowdonia

Dementia Adventure CIC offers bespoke holidays for those with dementia

New social enterprise cafe in Woodbridge Suffolk

Staff from Realise Futures are busy serving tea, coffee, homemade cakes and lunches 

For every £1 invested, the social value created by Realise Futures is £2.51

Realise Futures is creating 'significant and demonstrable' social value 

Menta announces its business program for autumn

Details of business training sessions, its networking event and annual Trade Fair

Expert Connections

Help for Suffolk's small businesses to profit from expertise & fresh insight

Menta Trade Fair Will Launch Business Festival 2015

Opportunity for businesses to display and demonstrate products and services 

Realise Future's wins The Community Engagement Award

Realise Futures Family Learning Team secures top accolade at Suffolk Adult Learners Awards

Land ahoy!

Children get a playtime surprise with long boat made from recycled bags and bottles by Realise Futures

We Walk the Line CIC

Cash spent on buying your daily caffeine hit supports the development of new micro-business & sustainable business people. Crowdfunding campaign

 

CDS Finalist in National Nutrition Awards

Going above & beyond the day-to-day role

Business backs innovative elderly care social enterprise

Thousands of vulnerable adults set to benefit as Social Business Trust charity awards support worth £550,000 to Hertfordshire Independent Living Service to expand 

Funding from Europe

Who to contact across the region for more information on European Funding and Building Better Opportunities

Largest leisure trust in Suffolk

West Suffolk's two charitable leisure trusts Abbeycroft Leisure and Anglia Community Leisure have merged 

Time to smile

CDS Expanding Home Visiting Dental Service

Realise Futures has won a government contract to assist lone parents find a job. (3)

Experienced staff will offer a varied range of intensive support to enable them to gain confidence and progress

Dementia Adventure CIC: the adventure goes on.... (3)

Dementia Adventure continues Chelmsford initiative to help people living with dementia and their carers get out into nature

Growing places is going places

Thanks to new plot of land donated by local company

Social enterprise re-launches product

Introducing Poppy's Snack Box at the Anglia Business Exhibition.

Realise Futures extend their reach...

Realise Futures secures contract to support adults with disabilities across Essex

SEEE member CDS Announce New Contract

CDS To Provide Oral Health Promotion and Epidemiology Services in Oxfordshire

Helping budding social entrepreneurs in Australia

SEEE Board member Sarah Sharlott offers virtual inspiration.

Social Enterprise contributes £22bn to the UK economy over last 5 years

RBS SE100 2014 report reveals Social Enterprise's impressive contribution

 to the UK economy 

Successful social ventures announced

Eleven social ventures have won the opportunity to secure further training and support with Social Incubator East. 

Norton Community Pub rescued by social investment

Village pub threatened by takeover now has secure future and is firmly in its community's hands

Credit Union offers a new product for working people.

Credit Unions have played an invaluable role in helping many people make their money go further

Wintercomfort Awarded £50k to get people back to work

With additional £50,000, Overstream Clean aims to double the number of people they support 

CDS Finalists at the National Dental Awards 2015

Community Dental Services (CDS) are celebrating for being finalists in a number of categories for this year's National Dental Awards.

Social Value Act.....the review!

Sarah Sharlott CEO Realsie Futures shares here views on the Lord Young's review.

Penny for your thoughts?

Social investment is the name of the game....

Goshawk Communications: technology for the hearing impaired

Firm joined the first Social Venture Weekend at Cambridge Judge

Smiles all round thanks to CDS action bike donation

13 new specialist bikes, trikes and scooters donated.

OpenJamJar got a big liftoff from Social Venture Weekend

OpenJamJar helps landlords and renters navigate payment procedures on housing.

Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, visited Community Dental Services (CDS)

CDS Helping Crisis at Christmas’ Volunteer Dentists

SEEE member's mobile dental unit helps the homeless

Social Incubator East - Third weekend

Find out about this new opportunity and how it has already helped other social entrepreneurs

Beyond funding...

What makes an organisation sustainable? Chris Lee shares his expertise and insight.

Funding Opportunities from Europe

Building Better Opportunities pot offered through Big Lottery and EU Funding provides a great oppportunity for social enterprises

5 classic social media mistakes and......

Zoe Amar tells us how to avoid them

SEEE member releases song for charity

Voice cloud releases album with all profits from sales going towards a palliative care centre in Norfolk.

Trailblazing social enterprise

Realise Futures tops successful 2nd Anniversaary year by winning National award for 'trailblazing newcomer'

 

Leading Lives Commended for Employee Ownership

Ipswich based social enterprise, Leading Lives, has been nationally recognised as a champion of the employee ownership business model

TheGivingMachine Golden Hearts Campaign

Christmas campaign offers online shoppers exclusive deals and prizes when they give for free through free-giving online shopping website

 

Good news for Allied Health Professionals

Suffolk social enterprise set to continue with NHS contract

Suspended Coffees

Realise Futures perks up its support for charity coffee initiative to help those in need across Suffolk.

Renewed focus for SEEE member

Regional social enterprise, Sustainability East, has realigned its priorities for the coming year 

Strategic Collaboration in the Third Sector

John Thompson Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, ARU shares his views....

Hertfordshire Community Meals wins National Business Award

Prestigious Social Enterprise of the Year Award

Fourteen new ventures at Social Incubator East

Ventures - all chosen because of their potential to create positive social change

Great Yarmouth entrepreneurs are making a difference

Starting their own businesses benefitting their local communities

Free seminar and skills check

Available to SMEs and delivered by SEEE member Realise Futures

The double shift of the start-up entrepreneur

An insight from Chris Lee's (social entrepreneur) experience

Trouble at the Co-op.....

What can we learn? What does John Chillcott Chair of SEEE say?

Charity Bank fee free loans

Charity Bank has increased funds to loan...

Social Investment, the Missing Middle

Sarah Sharlott (CEO Realise Futures) shares her view on social investment

Ed Balls Visit

Shadow Chancellor visits Eastern Savings & Loans Credit Union Ltd.

Realise Futures secures £2m contract

To give newley-employed jobs training, careers advice and skills support in the East

Charities must be more transparent

The GivingMachine survey finds that this is what fundraisers say.

Turning the Corner Conference

A new CICs write up of all the day's speakers

Congratulations Essex CIC

Essex Company awarded coveted Technology grant for new invention

Why Social Enterprise companies should have a Website?

In 2014 most companies have a website because......

Kick-start programme for Eastern social ventures launches website

Offering support and information to businesses with a social conscience

Click , Shop and Give for FREE

Online shopping website TheGivingMachine (TGM) is launching a digital toolbar making it easier to participate and benefit

Great Ideas for Great Yarmouth

A group of social entrepreneurs in Great Yarmouth are celebrating success having been accepted onto the Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland Social Entrepreneurs Programme 

Leadership tips

The final 10 tips (10 more can be found in previous blog) about leadership gleaned from a two-day session on the Lloyds Bank School for Social Entrepreneurs Programme

The difference between urgent and important

Growing a business requires a multitude of actions.  How do you prioritise?  Which are the most important actions?

Something for the summer holidays....

Ipswich-based Realise Futures, the award-winning social enterprise, has launched a short story and colouring competition for Ipswich children and teenagers in the summer holidays.

Learning to lead – 10 of 20 tips

Learning to Lead - top tips for Chris Lee and his School for Social Entrepreneurs experience

Deloitte's Social Innovation Pioneers Programme

TheGivingMachine's wins place on Deloitte Social Innovation Pioneers Programme

New social enterprise in Cambridge

Squeaky clean new social enterprise launched in Cambridge

WISE Communications

Anne Wise of Wise Communications offers some tips on improving your media relationships. 

Slowing the spin about social entrepreneurs

A guest blog by Chris Lee

Doing a Great Deal Campaign

New campaign is launched by Realise Futures to get Suffolk folk 'Doing a Great Deal' for their community.

The Social Value Act - Is it working?

If you read the government's recent publication 'One Year on', then everything is just tickety boo.  But here in the real world it's hard to tell the difference.

Measure what matters

It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong...  Guest blog Chris Lee

Mutuals delivering public services

New mutuals are the future for public service delivery - Francis Maude visits Leading Lives

Mind the Gap - Age and Enterprise

Guest blog by Chris Lee

Change Management Outcomes

Training....are we seeing it as an affordable investment?

Running on Fumes...

a case for lean business start-up?

Guest blog post by Chris Lee,



If Social Enterprise is the future: why does it need to change?

As Heraclitus pointed out over 2500 years ago, 'the only constant in life is change'.

Realise Futures donates plastic bench

Heart warming news from Realise Futures...

Co-op finance institution shortlisted for national award

Co-operative and Community Finance, has reached the shortlist for a new national awards scheme that recognises & rewards excellence in community finance

New Anglia LEP secures £3.9 million for business support

 Monies will support 1,000 businesses, create 200 business start-ups and create 200 new jobs

 

 

What can Big Issue Invest offer you?

Are you a Social Enterprise or Charity looking for finance from £50,000 to £1,000,000?

 

Social Enterprise Celebrates its 1st Anniversary

Realise Futures CIC has gone from strength to strength, with a turnover of £16million, employing 370 staff in four business divisions over six Eastern counties. Read about their first year...

 

Crowdfunding- What is it all about?

According to a report published by Nesta in May, crowdfunding in the UK generated approximately £200 million in 2012.

Managing your finance-some advice...

Deborah Short and Richard Jones from Pilot Fish offer advice on financial management for small and medium sized enterprises.

How to tweet your way to event success

How to tweet your way to event success: KISS Communications' top tips for online engagement.

Benefits of a networking organisation

An interesting blog from one of our members.......................

Embracing risk and failure

We don't need to be told that these are hard times to be running businesses. But what are the implications for social enterprises trying to demonstrate a better way of doing business by doing things differently - will we have to stop experimenting?...

 

 

Can Finance Meet Social Need

In a recently co-authored paper "Can Social Finance Meet Social Need?" Robbie Davidson, Director of Can Cook CIC and Helen Heap an independent Social Investment anallst question whether currently available social finance models are fit for purpose to fund community-based social enterprises.

Social enterprise: innovation in public service delivery

Ben higham (SEEE Chair) asks.... Has the opportunity for social enterprises to deliver 'public services' provided a platform for development, improvement and innovation?

Mid Summer Birthday Celebration and Launch for Leading Lives

Customers, family carers and staff in Bury celebrate Leading Lives first birthday

Press Release - Local businesswoman speaks at LLP, Spin Outs in Development Network Event, London

Sarah Sharlott, Realise Futures CEO presents at the Spin-Outs in Development Network Event, London

Glowing Report for Wenta as they retain Customer First Accreditation

Wenta has proudly retained the National Standard for Customer Service following their recent assessment by Customer First.

Are you your own worst enemy?? (1)

Much talked about in the last six months and what is jargon to some, also happens to be one of our most effective services for ambitious social enterprises that want to grow; do  more, access new markets, develop new services..................

From best kept secret to thought-leader

From best kept secret to thought-leader: KISS PR's tips for making the transition and raising your profile

Social Enterprise Open Evening

Social Enterprise Open Evening in Hertfordshire showcasing two new social enterprises being launched by CRI, was attended by over 100 people on June 5^th.

 

 

The resilience of Social Enterprises

The resilience of Social Enteprises

Ben Higham (SEEE Chair) talks to some survivors about opportunities and challenges

Realise Futures meets PM

SEEE member Realise Futures visits Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street.

Cash Grant Fund for Business Launches in Suffolk

The £3m fund provides cash grants to businesses, of between £25,000 and £100,000 for companies looking to expand their operations and create new jobs. 

My Social Return on Investment experience

SEEE asked John lanagan, Learning and Enterprise Manager at Museum of East Anglia Life about his Social Return on Investment Experience.

Prize Challenge fund

Challenge laid down for Voluntary and Social Enterprise sector - LEP agrees to finance new Prize Challenge Fund.

The 'only pub in the village'

The Norton is a community pub run by a group of volunteers.  The North is 'the only pub in the village' and is therefore a valuable asset to the community. Read how communty shares helped them save the pub. 

 

Social Enterprise visits Russia

Suffolk Social Enterprise - Realise Futures CIC makes it to Moscow!

 

Getting media coverage is important for your social enterprise, but it’s important for the sector too (1)

A survey recently published by the Key Fund found that social enterprise was not on many people's radars.......read more here

Top LinkedIn tips and tricks for social enterprises from Laura Brown, Social Media Manager at KISS Public Relations

Learn about the fastest growing professional networking site - LinkedIn.

How to promote your enterprise for less than the cost of a book of stamps

A beautiful example of how you can raise your enterprises' profile without spending money.

Big Society Capital Roadshow

Big Society Capital Roadshow came to Cambridge on 20 October 2012.  Presentations attached to help your understanding of social investment.

Business Lending: This Money Must be Used

Foundation East Business Lending boosted and must be used!!

Co-habiting with other elephants

Chris Lee, former SEEE staff member, talks to a SEEE member about co-location in Hertfordshire.

A Question of Scale

What's the right size for your enterprise? I don't mean turnover, in this case I'm talking about the number of people who work in it on a paid basis. This is not to under-estimate the sweated labour of volunteers but that's a variable not easily built into a business plan. 

Avoiding tyre-kickers and cheese-munchers

If the find you have a lot of enquiries from customers you can't help, the fault may be with you, not them...

Housing Associations and Social Enterprise

Housing associations are one of the most successful social enterprise sectors in the UK.....

ICRF and Jeff - It's growing

Locality has been asked to provide development support as part of the newly announced investment and Contract Readiness Fund (ICRF). Jeff thinks its 'growing pretty well!

Cost, price and sustainability

You're probably paying too much for products and services you buy, and not charging enough for those you sell. That's never good for business ...

Managing expectations

Social enterprise is in the spotlight. In its first 12 months the current government arguably raised the profile of social enterprise higher that the previous administration through 12 years of solid support. But it's a dangerous place to be...     

Telling the story behind the product

Should you tell the story behind your products? Opinion is divided ...

Marketing Your Assets

A prosperous and vibrant social enterprise sector.

We want to place social enterprises and their support needs at the centre of a changing agenda.

SEEE Member BigBarn uses CrowdCube to raise investment.

New way for uk entrepreneurs and business pioneers to raise business finance...

Social entrepreneurship and the co-operative ethos

How does the individualistic style of the social entrepreneur sit alongside the inclusive, co-operative ethos of most social enterprises?

Social impact measurement conundrums

Social impact measurement is not new, but it is increasingly being talked about to show value when competing for public service contracts. Easier said than done ...

Social Value Act

Proving your social value - use the Social Enterprise Mark! Anne Mountkjoy from the Social Enteprise Mark attended SE UK's Social Value Conference recently, designed to help public bodies and social enterprises prepare for the commencement of the Public Services (Social Value) Act in January 2013.

Support and social enterprise (1)

Do social enterprises need support? 

Do any businesses need support? 

What support is needed?

Who should provide it?

Who should pay for it? 

The value of learning

In the current economic climate, the days of free training courses may be numbered. If this has the effect of increasing the perceived value of learning, there could be a positive impact...

Valuing what’s old and plentiful

Volunteers, social enterprise and sustainability

If social enterprise is about paid employment, is there a role for volunteers?

 

What's in a membership?

As I consider the proposition that you renew or take out a membership of SEEE I am
wondering why would you do so? I ask myself what is in it for you?

Social Enterprise in Essex

Research summary and summary of breakout sessions