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Social Enterprise Hub - Birmingham

Healthy Social Enterprise - Dissemination conference

ISE held its Healthy Social Enterprise conference on 15th July 2009.

The conference was organised to disseminate information on our recent project funded by the Department of Health and run in partnership with Birmingham City Council's Adult and Communities Directorate.

Sarah Crawley CEO of ISE said 'this year’s conference has been a huge success. We have had the opportunity to work with commissioners and assist social entrepreneurs develop their social enterprises which will provide better services to individuals. This project has ensured that we are at the cutting edge of learning and enabling the development of social enterprises in the health sector'.

Click the links below to download the keynote and workshop presentations. Keep visiting this site, as these resources will be updated regularly.

Business Link West Midlands Fully Funded Social Enterprise Support

iSE is the leading enterprise support organisation working throughout the West Midlands. ISE specialises in social enterprise development and is the regional specialist social enterprise support agency for Business Link services.

We provide tailored business and enterprise support solutions for organisations of varying sizes. Whether you're just starting out with an idea or a well established organisation aiming to manage change, we can help.

Working Neighbourhoods Funds Third Sector Consortia

iSE with funding secured from Birmingham City Council are supporting Third Sector Organisations in Birmingham develop consortia to respond to the imminent call for Working Neighbourhood Fund tenders.

Nearly £29m of funds is allocated within the Worklessness theme to be locally commissioned through the City's Constituency Structures. A further £22m is available to support specific clients through strategic themes e.g. the homeless.

Funding will be targeted on Super Output Areas within specific constituencies (click here to find out how much is available).The aim of the fund is to address long term worklessness trends and ensure that areas with the highest levels of worklessness have funds targeted on them.

Our highly successful constituency events have been well attended and have indicated the potential opportunties for third sector organisations.

Below you can download presentations and other resources presented at these events.

The NESPS and CESPS are also now available to download.

Over the next few months iSE will support the development of robust tenders through facilitation and support for third sector agencies who aim to develop consortia or joint bidding frameworks. For more information call our main office on  0121 771 1411.

If you have trouble downloading any of these resources try the following: 1 - hover your mouse over the link; 2- right click and select 'open in new window'; 3- click the new link which should open the document for you.

Tackling Worklessness Through Social Enterprise - Conference November 2008.

ISE' s third annual conference which demonstrated how social enterprise can tackle worklessness breaks new ground. The conference was supported by a grant from Social Enterprise West Midlands (SEWM) and designed to show how social enterprise is best placed to tackle worklessness and generate sustainable jobs for those who are furthest away from the labour market.

The conference was a great success with speakers from:

Room Hire

ISE Hub has specialist training, meeting and offices available for one of hire or long term lets. Our facilities are only 10 minutes away from the City centre and ideally placed for access to majour rail and road links.

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