The School for Social Entrepreneurs has announced that it is offering places on a learning programme, with grants, for social entrepreneurs or would-be social entrepreneurs to make their ideas a reality, or to scale up their existing projects. The scheme is funded by Lloyds Banking Group, with additional support from Nominet Trust, and will run across the UK for the next five years. The programme has two strands:
- The Start Up Programme compromises of a grant of £4,000 and a place on SSE’s Start Up learning programme. It is for applicants at an early stage in the development of their project or organisation, and supports personal development and business skills development to help turn projects or project ideas into reality.
- The Scale Up Programme compromises of a grant of £15,000 and a place on SSE’s Scale Up learning programme. The programme is for social entrepreneurs with an established organisation who are looking to take it to the next level, equipping them with the tools to develop it further and maximise their social impact.
In addition, each year, one of the Scale Up participants will also win the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award with a total grant of £25,000.
The closing date for applications is 10am on the 28th May 2012. See link here:
http://www.the-sse.org/schools/26/lloyds-banking-group-social-entrepreneurs-programme
| June 13, 2012 |
| 10:00 am | to | 4:30 pm |
Venue: Waterside Arts Centre, 1 Waterside Plaza, Sale, Manchester M33 7ZF
£10 / £8
Bookings: Box office 0161 912 5616
Join Wes Brown, director of Dead Ink Books, for this workshop on the writers’ craft, which also includes a look at digital media and new publishing formats. The workshop is comprised of two sessions, with the morning section looking at the writers’ craft – how to develop your self-editing and writing skills. In the afternoon, the workshop will provide insights into the changing nature of the publishing industry.
Places are limited to 10 people.
Dead Ink Books publish the best new poetry and prose by contemporary authors across the UK. They are supported by Arts Council England, and distribute literature through apps, ebooks and online.
Workshop leader Wes Brown is a novelist, critic and editor based in Leeds. He is the director of Dead Ink Books, Information Manager at the National Association for Literature Development and Young Writers Co-ordinator at the National Association of Writers in Education. His debut novel, Shark, will be published in 2012.
The Arts Council England has announced that it will launch a new Creative Industry Finance Initiative on the 22nd May 2012.
Creative Industry Finance will be offering business development support and access to finance for creative industry enterprises. The programme will provide practical advice and support for creative entrepreneurs wishing to develop and grow their business as a viable commercial enterprise.
In addition to the business support package, a limited number of business development loans of £5,000-25,000 will also be made available for successful applicants, repayable over a maximum of three years. The initiative will be open to wide range of individuals within the arts sector including artists, writers, performers, designers, producers, promoters, publishers or innovators, etc.
For more information visit: http://tinyurl.com/d7tdmyh
This programme aims to support a group of charities that want to use their expertise, networks, assets and capabilities to find new ways to engage more people in giving. That could include finding new and more powerful ways of maximising donations, getting more people involved in giving their time or unlocking idle and under-utilised resources and assets for social goals.
Over the course of a year, around ten charities will receive the following:
- Development funding
- Support to design and run an open innovation process
- Connections to innovators and potential partners
- Opportunities for collaboration and peer support
- A programme of workshops and events
- Ongoing practical support throughout the year
The programme will utilise the successful approaches to open innovation that are increasingly common in commercial organisations to accelerate the pace and scale of impact of innovations in giving. It will also seek to generate learning, insights and products that are of benefit to the whole sector.
Medium to large charities that are registered with the Charity Commission are eligible to apply. Charities must:
- Have national reach, with the expertise, networks, assets and capabilities to take innovations in giving to scale.
- Be committed to the idea of open innovation and the aims of the programme.
- Be committed to collaboration and want to develop new partnerships with innovators outside their organisation.
- Have senior leadership commitment and be willing to devote sufficient resources to the programme.
The benefits of the proposal should focus primarily or significantly on England.
The deadline for applicants to submit an expression of interest in the programme is 9 May 2012.
For more details, go to: http://www.nesta.org.uk/
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2012| June 28, 2012 |
| 10:15 am | to | 4:00 pm |
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
FREE for Strategy & Leadership subscribers, £150+VAT for other subscribers £195+VAT for non-subscribers
http://www.allaboutaudiences.com/events/what-do-you-want-from-your-board
Vivienne Tyler, Manager, Business in the Arts: North West to join All About Audiences as expert workshop leader for the next in the Masterclass series. She will share her vast knowledge of working with Boards with delegates, with content tailored to the specific needs of the delegates.
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