Welcome to the April Social Enterprise Link e-newsletter. Warmer days seem to be heading our way, but we're not ready for our holidays yet...! There is plenty happening, with lots of events and training courses taking place over the next few weeks.
As ever, if you have anything you would like to promote through the newsletters, be it an event, training day, job vacancy or news, please email lucy.p@sesc.info
News
Regeneration & Renewal Awards 2007
The Regeneration & Renewal Awards are new. They will seek out, recognize and reward schemes of the highest merit, then applaud and publicise them with vigour.
Regeneration & Renewal magazine is the leading publication in this sector and it will bring its depth of knowledge and editorial rigour to the selection of judges, the judging process and the way in which finalist and winning schemes are described in any published material on the Awards.
Because the Awards are new for 2007, they will automatically attract interest and the expectation is that entry levels in the first year will be high. You are encouraged to enter, too, in the sure knowledge that only the best projects will make it through the first stages of judging, having been scrutinized by some very senior and expert judges.
The Regeneration & Renewal Awards will also make sure that where it is important for judges to visit a scheme to assess it properly, the resources will be in place to carry out the inspections.
This rigorous judging process will allow us to use the Regeneration & Renewal Awards to found a library of best practice and successful projects firmly set in the twenty-first century.
With adequate time to enter - you have until May 2007 to submit your entries - and with an eligibility period that spans twenty months - from 1 July 2005 until 31 March 2007 - you will be able to hone your entries and gather together the support material to provide the judges with full understanding of your work.
Make sure your contribution to regeneration is recognised. Be a part of the first Regeneration & Renewal Awards, which will take place in September 2007 in London.
Visit the haymarket website for more information and application form
Funding
Social Enterprise Fund
From April 2007, the Department of Health will hold a Social Enterprise Investment Fund of at least £73 million over the next four years. Of this £73 million, there will be £1.2 million revenue and £8.9 million capital money in the new financial year 2007 to 2008. Both social enterprise pathfinders and other social enterprises, delivering health and social care services, will be able to apply to the Social Enterprise Fund in the financial year 2007 to 2008.
Q: When can social enterprises apply to the fund in the financial year 2007 to 2008?
A: Pathfinders will have first access to the Fund in April and May. Other Social Enterprises in health and social care can apply in the Summer. The application process and criteria will be on the website early in the new financial year.
Q: What can social enterprises apply for in the financial year 2007 to 2008?
A: The Department of Health will consider a range of business start up costs, as well as initial project development. The majority of the Fund is made up of capital monies.
Timetable
- April to May 2007
Assessment of 26 Pathfinder requests for start up funding - Early summer 2007
Detailed investment criteria and online application process available to all social enterprises in health and social care - Autumn 2007
Investment decisions on Social Enterprise Fund applications.
Visit the website for more information
Linking Communities - small grants available
Diversity Exchange now have some more Linking Communities funding available.
The funding is running on a rolling programme:
Application deadlines: 16th April 07, 14th May 07 and 18th June 07, groups will be informed within a couple of weeks after each deadline whether they have received the funding or not. Money has to be spent by end of September 07.
For further details please contact; Julie Whiting Linking Communities Co-ordinator, Diversity Exchange, 63 Nesfield Street, Bradford BD1 3ET Tel 01274 201236 or email julie.whiting@dex-online.co.uk
What’s On
Selling Added Value
The Selling Added Value course is now open for bookings for the Thornbury Centre April 20th for day one and May 17th for day 2.
Do not miss this opportunity to identify your added value for tendering purposes. The course takes two days to complete (the days are three weeks apart) and also offers one to one support. At the end you will have looked current contract culture for the sector, calculated your added value over and above service delivery and learned how to use it when tendering for business.
Further information is from the Social Enterprise Support Centre 0845 2578027
Introduction to Social Enterprise – Choice of Dates!
11th May, 10am – 12pm, Business Link, Wellington Street, Leeds
8th June, 10am – 12pm, Business Link, Wellington Street, Leeds
A social enterprise is a business with social aims, where all profits are reinvested back in to the business or community. These workshops are for people who would like to explore the concept of social enterprise, how to set one up and what support is available.
Call the Business Gateway on 0845 8336000 for more information and booking
Finance for Social Enterprise Sustainability
17th May, 9.30am – 1pm, Leeds Town Hall
An informative event for all social enterprises and pre-starts to help gain an insight into sustaining your business. Meet with the experts and speakers who can help and advise you in all matters financial! Not to be missed!
For more information and booking contact the Business Gateway on 0845 833 6000
Money Go Round
25th April, Host Media Centre, Leeds
How the Local Multiplier 3 tool can help you track your organisation’s effect on the local and wider economy. How this can become a fundamental part of your Social Accounting process and how you can demonstrate the economic impact you make in real money terms
For more information and booking please contact Linda Lockwood at In To Business Scheme on 01484 223686
SESC courses
We are running two courses through Wakefield College, funded by Learning and Skills Councils. The courses are in Project Management and Coaching and Mentoring. Both courses are due to start in May, for further information please contact Rachel Oddie, Enterprise Network Manager at Rachel.oddie@sesc.info
Tax Implications Seminar
18th April, 6.30pm, Old School Board, Calverley St, Leeds, LS1 3ED
Leeds City Council and ABDN Minority Ethnic Enterprise Network are working in partnership with Leeds Met University to deliver an evening seminar with Key Note speakers Matthew Wood (Officer to Enterprise Support Team HMRC) and Donald Oats (Business Support Team HMRC)
For further information and booking please contact Amrit Choda on 0113 224 3387 or email amrit.choda@leeds.gov.uk
Charity Commission Guidance on Vetting Trustee
23rd April, Old School Board, Calverley St, Leeds, LS1 3ED
This event will provide an opportunity for voluntary and community organisations working with children and young people to learn about and help shape current and future developments in safeguarding.
The charity commission recently published proposals to strengthen procedures for obtaining criminal record discloshures on trustees. The event will provide an opportunity to learn about these ad other key developments from the policy makers themselves, and to shape NCVCCO and NCVYS’s response to current proposals. Alongside presentations from the key organisations, partciiapants will have the opportunity to discuss issues in more detail with colleagues from other organisations.
This information and consultation event is aimed at staff, volunteers and trustees from across the voluntary and community youth and children’s sector, and from both large and small organisations.
Places are FREE, if you would like more information please contact Ilona Pinter on 020 7253 1010, or email ilona@ncvys.org.uk
Useful Links
West Yorkshire Social Enterprise Link: http://www.wyselink.co.uk/
Social Enterprise Support Centre: http://www.sesc.info/
Social Enterprise Yorkshire & Humber http://www.seyh.org.uk/
Bfunded http://www.bfunded.org.uk/
Supplier route to government http://www.supply2.gov.uk/
Local Info
Are you a Community Arts Based organisation?
We would like to hear your views about some ideas that we are investigating developing. The ideas were suggested by members at the networking events we held last year and we hope to develop them further. They say two heads are better than one so we would really value your opinions and involvement. The ideas are a central resource centre for the hire of equipment and scenery, this idea originated when we were discussing the cost of putting on productions, especially for smaller voluntary, community and youth groups. It was also suggested due to the waste that was created in the sector the potential for re-use of scenery, costumes and other related equipment.
We would be grateful if you could complete the online questionnaire and return it to us by the end of April. We look forward to hearing from you, and please remember if you have any news or information that we can include in the network newsletter please email it to Rachel.oddie@sesc.info
