Thoroughly enjoyed running a 3-hour workshop for Sheffield Community Network yesterday (24/04/13) on setting up and running a social enterprise. What a diverse group – facing many similar issues, but also very specific ones. The ever-enthusiastic Andi Stamp – my co-presenter – and I made the workshop as interactive and focused on participants’ specific needs […]
9 steps to social enterprise success
Filed Under: Business Development, Marketing, Resources, Social Enterprise, Training Tagged With: business development, business finance, business planning, Governance, human resources, social enterprise, startup, team development
It’s a YES for Sheffield Local TV
Fantastic news: Sheffield Local Television (SLTV) has been awarded the licence to operate Sheffield’s first digital local television channel. The decision, taken by communications regulator Ofcom, follows 20 months of campaigning. Sheffield Local Television represents a consortium of Sheffield-based organisations launched in 2011 and led by Community Media Solutions Ltd (CMS), a Sheffield-based media development […]
Filed Under: Business Development, Communications, Media, Research, Social Enterprise Tagged With: local media, sheffield local television, social enterprise
Dave lends where banks don’t – just like CDFIs
Written for and originally posted at www.cdfa.org.uk He likes bananas and he’s not a fan of banks. So plain-speaking David Fishwick decided he wanted to launch a bank with a difference. A new 2-part series on Channel 4, which began last night, told his story. The irrepressible minibus entrepreneur had realised that his customers, many […]
Filed Under: Regeneration, Social Enterprise Tagged With: business finance, CDFA, community development, social enterprise
Community finance is JUST finance
Imagine borrowing £100 – but then paying back £50 per month for 6 months to pay off the loan. After 6 months, you’ll have handed back interest of £200 in addition to the original £100 of capital – in other words, the loan will have cost you a shocking 534% APR. Certainly this isn’t a […]
Filed Under: Policy, Project Management, Social Enterprise, Uncategorized Tagged With: CDFA, films, social enterprise, social policy
Jamie IS Simon Cowell for YCA fashion show
Last Thursday I ‘volunteered’ to act as a judge for a fashion show organised by the Sheffield-based social enterprise, Youth Can Achieve. I’d like to think that I was asked because of my fashion sense, but it might have more to do with my willingness to pretend to be Simon Cowell for a couple of […]
Filed Under: Social Enterprise Tagged With: social enterprise, YCA, young people
Award success for YCA’s Nikki
Fantastic news on Friday. I’m absolutely thrilled that Nikki Sharpe, the founder of Sheffield-based social enterprise Youth Can Achieve, has been given the ‘Leadership in the Community’ Award at the national ‘Network of Aspiring Women’ Awards. These awards were created by former Apprentice contestant Jo Cameron to celebrate the achievements of women throughout the UK. […]
Filed Under: Project Management, Regeneration, Social Enterprise Tagged With: community development, social enterprise, YCA, young people
