Category Archives: Enhance social enterprise
Creating a human economy: the power of purpose properly certified
Blog post by Gareth Hart, Director of Iridescent Ideas and chair of Plymouth Social Enterprise Network. We recently attended the Social Enterprise Mark conference in Birmingham. This annual event brings together people from all over the UK and beyond. … Continue reading
Posted in Enhance social enterprise | Tagged Accreditation, Certification, Inclusivitity, Social enterprise, Standards | Leave a commentManagement and Leadership Apprenticeships and Social Enterprise
Blog post by Steve McLauchlin, Social Investment Manager at Somerset Community Foundation. Besides working with Somerset Community Foundation – managing a social investment fund and supporting delivery of the Enhance Social Enterprise Programme – I also work as … Continue reading
Posted in Enhance social enterprise | Tagged Apprentices, Apprenticeships, College, Social enterprise, social investment, somerset community foundation | Leave a commentMake Your Community Hub Fit for the Future
Video from our ‘Make Your Community Hub Fit for the Future’ event held on 14 March 2019. We have another ‘Make Your Community Hub Fit for the Future’ event coming up at Ivybridge, Devon on 23 May 2019. … Continue reading
Posted in Enhance social enterprise | Tagged Business support, community business, community pub, community shop, Somerset, south west, training event | Leave a commentFive steps to combating loneliness as a social entrepreneur
Blog post by Chloe Tingle, Learning Manager at School for Social Entrepreneurs – Dartington. As a Learning Manager at School for Social Entrepreneurs – Dartington, the thing we hear over and over from our students is how lonely … Continue reading
Posted in Enhance social enterprise | Tagged co-working, loneliness, networking, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, socialising, work life balance | Leave a commentSocially Enterprise Women: Soo Brizell, Shekinah
Q&A Between Mark Cotton from Devon Community Foundation, a Delivery Partner of the Enhance Social Enterprise Programme and Soo Brizell, Head of Strategic Partnerships & Contracts at Shekinah. Tell us a bit about your organisation, what it does, … Continue reading
Posted in Enhance social enterprise | Tagged Business support, Business sustainability, management, Social enterprise, social entrepreneur, Sustainability | Leave a commentSocially Enterprising Women: Caroline Blackler, Red Velvet Cinema and Samantha Norris & Aynsley Jones, Axminster Health & Wellbeing Centre
Blog post by Mark Cotton, Financial Sustainability and Social Investment Mentor at Devon Community Foundation. A Delivery Partner of the Enhance Social Enterprise Programme. So it seems it’s my turn to take up the Enhance Social Enterprise blog … Continue reading
Posted in Enhance social enterprise | Tagged Business support, mission, Social enterprise, social entrepreneur, vision | Leave a commentGet steady – the key to being sustainable
Blog post by Andy Stuart, Consultant at Real Ideas Organisation (RIO). I have been involved in the Enhance Social Enterprise programme for the past few months after having supported dozens of clients in Cornwall on our equivalent … Continue reading
Posted in Enhance social enterprise | Tagged Business, Business sustainability, Client, financial sustainability, Growth, Income, Market share, New markets, Profit, resilience, Revenue, Social enterprise, social entrepreneur, Sustainability, Turnover | Leave a commentMeasuring the impact of social enterprises – a novel approach
The CAG team is excited to be working with Devon County Council to develop an innovative method for testing the impact of social enterprises. The aim is to support the future growth of the sector by providing a way of … Continue reading
Posted in Enhance social enterprise | Tagged devon, economy, evidence, impact, measurement, methodology, outcomes, resilience, sector, Social enterprise, social enterprise sector, social enterprises, social impact, social objectives, social value, society, Somerset | Leave a commentChristmas shopping with purpose!
It’s December, I can no longer avoid the fact that Christmas is mere days away, and my Bah Humbug avoidance of shops decked in holly and tinsel since August may now be inadvertently contributing to a rising panic that … Continue reading
Posted in Enhance social enterprise | Tagged Buy Social, Christmas presents, Christmas shopping, Gifts, Presents with purpose, Social business, Social enterprise | Leave a commentMake Your Pre-School Fit for the Future event on 22 October 2018
We recently held a Enhance Social Enterprise training event for social enterprise pre-schools at Monks Yard in Somerset. Watch this video to find out more about the event and the experiences of those who attended.
Posted in Enhance social enterprise | Tagged collaboration, digital marketing, digital transformation, financial sustainability, funding, pre-schools, resilience, social investment, Somerset, strategic plannng | Leave a comment ← Older posts