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S2S Trade Fair
SSEC
Date: 2008-12-18
The Marketplace is Open for Business!...more

Business Forum – “Surviving Recession”,
SSEC
Date: 2008-12-18
Tuesday 20  January 2009, 2pm to 4pm: Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition Business Forum – "Surviving Recession", Thorn House, 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PR ...more

GHA Focussing On Long-Term Plans
Housing Scotland Today
Date: 2008-12-18
Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) has revealed its long-term plans to improve housing services, building new homes and regenerating local communities....more

Asylum seekers are part of us
Chris Arnot, The Guardian
Date: 2008-12-18
Christian socialist Bob Holman, who famously lived and worked for many years on deprived housing estates, tells ­Chris Arnot why he has taken up the cause of asylum seekers with a report for an influential Tory thinktank...more

Piloting more community asset transfers
VolResource
Date: 2008-12-18
The third round of the Advancing Assets for Communities demonstration programme has been launched for another 30 areas across England. ...more

Scotland's third sector should be 'innovative, dynamic and focused'
Public Service Review: Devolved Government Issue 16
Date: 2008-12-18
The third sector in Scotland has 'transformational potential', according to its Finance Secretary John Swinney. Here he explains why he is so impressed with the third sector and what he wants to see in the future
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Third Sector Enterprise Fund
Scottish Government
Date: 2008-12-18
The Scottish Government's £12 million Third Sector Enterprise Fund, aimed at encouraging Third Sector organisations to become more enterprising, was launched on 9 December 08 by Jim Mather (Minister for Enterprise). ...more

Roadwise Driver Training and Aberdeen Foyer
Aberdeen Foyer
Date: 2008-12-12
Last week's bulletin included an erroneous piece profiling Foyer Drive.  To clarify, Foyer Drive is not a new social enterprise run by Aberdeen Foyer.  Foyer Drive is an initiative offering young people involved with Aberdeen Foyer highly subsidised driving lessons, road safety tuition and basic car maintenance as well as Pre-17 Driver Training days. ...more

Surf Celebrates a Decade of Regeneration With Nicola Sturgeon
SURF
Date: 2008-12-11
Community champions congratulated for transforming neighbourhoods during challenging economic times....more

Social Enterprise Mark – Outline proposal
Senscot
Date: 2008-12-11
From dialogue with our network, Senscot believes that a UK wide 'Social Enterprise Mark' (akin to the Fair Trade Mark) could help promote this identity with the general public but the challenge has been to agree eligibility criteria for such a common identifier. ...more

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