Showing posts with label grants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grants. Show all posts
Friday, September 3, 2021

Is the growth in CICs actually damaging the wider social enterprise movement?

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Some people may be aware that I've always questioned and challenged the Community Interest Company (CIC) legal form ( see previous blog ...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

why the lifeline of SEISS may bankrupt us next year...

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At the start of the pandemic, roughly 5 million of us were self-employed. At the start of the pandemic, government made financial support av...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

how the law is perversely stopping charities and social enterprises from being able to 'trade they way out' of the crisis (unlike private businesses...)

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I blogged recently about why we need to stop using the word 'pivot' - but we should keep encouraging everyone to think about how t...
Monday, November 11, 2019

the problems with prioritising social value maybe aren't that straightforward...

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Having worked in the 'social value' arena for about 20 years now in guises ranging from developing reporting toolkits for national ...
Friday, April 13, 2018

defining success in enterprise support means not measuring what you think you should

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We need a way to check that everything we spend money on, or invest our time in, has worked - otherwise, how do we know if it was the right...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

and the least sustainable legal form of social enterprise is...

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Anyone who's ever asked me for (professional) advice or guidance will know that I always try refer to what published research has to sa...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

if you want support for your startup, you'll likely need to ignore your ethics...

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I find myself in an unusual conundrum as an enterprise advisor who also has a pretty explicit set of values and ethics in how I approach th...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

crowdfunding grants for your project - the shape of things to come or a dystopian future?

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I find myself talking a lot about crowdfunding these days - partly because I'm starting to deliver more training and learning programme...
Friday, September 8, 2017

Why I just did an 8-hour round trip to London by train for a 50 minute chat

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I’m on my way back from London where I’ve just spent 50 minutes chatting with a medium sized charity about what I might be able to offer th...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

maybe social investment isn't that different after all..?

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I was able to make it along to this year's " Working Capital " conference that was recently staged in Sheffield - a day to im...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

does pursuing social investment reveal a weaking social enterprise sector?

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As some of you will know, I'm an approved provider for various enterprise support programmes, one of which is Big Potential - funded d...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

latest research suggests CICs are still trying to make their way in the wider world of social enterprise

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So - as some of you know, I can be a bit of an anorak when it comes to sector governance, and statistics. Not just because my brain seems t...
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Friday, February 12, 2016

just because you didn't get wet, doesn't mean your business won't be killed by floods...

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We're fast approaching 2 months since Todmorden and the rest of the Calder Valley got hard hit by the floods that washed out last year...
Monday, January 18, 2016

on being 'washed out' by floods and becoming a homeless entrepreneur...

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Along with thousands of others across the North of England at Christmas last year, my home was 'washed out' by the worst floods on ...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Do you really need to win an award to start your enterprise?

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I was following an enterprise start-up awards ceremony on twitter recently that had sought applications from people who felt they had grea...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Why the government's latest scheme to encourage start-ups will lead to generation of failed entrepreneurs...

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The current government seems to have a somewhat lopsided approach to encouraging entrepreneurship – while making speeches about how much the...