Sport SEN and @ScotClubSport are hosting a session on income generation and sustainability on Thursday 22 April at 12noon. We will hear from two successful sport social enterprises and a local Sports Council. Find out more and register 👉 bit.ly/3gx7md4
The Sport SEN has teamed up with @sported_Scot and @ScotClubSport to deliver a session on Monday 19 April with @sportscotland's Facilities team on Getting Ready to Reopen Sports Facilities. Find out more and register ➡️bit.ly/3tlVcaT
Day of the minnowPatrick Butler, The Guardian15.10.08
Some of the world's largest financial institutions have either expired or been put into intensive care in recent weeks, but one bank in particular…
This year sees an increase in the Dragon's Den Prize - now £5,000. A reminder as well that this year participants can get some ` Den Coaching` with Jay Lamb, winner of the first ever Dragon's Den f…
Dear members and friends,
On Sundays we like to go for a hurl in the car – to discover good fish restaurants with sitting rooms – in Biggar, Anstruther, Lanark etc. This week was one o…
Address by Alan Hobbett at CES's formal launch at the Scottish ParlimentAlan Hobbett, Chair of Community Energy Scotland07.10.08
The success of our predecessor organisation HICEC, which has worke…
The Ecology Centre Wins Big Lottery's Primetime ProgrammeThe Ecology Centre10.10.08
The Ecology Centre in Kinghorn featured in the Big Lottery's Primetime Programme last week (Mon 29th Sept) on BBC2. …
Community Empowerment - updates on progress neededSpeech by The Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP17.09.08
'Confident Communities'Development Trusts Association Annual Conference 2007
Introduction
It's a pleasure…
Market meltdown can herald the era of social businessRodney Schwartz, The Guardian08.10.08
Peer beyond the wreckage of western financial systems and it may be possible to discern the outlines of the f…
Tories discover their missing social linksPatrick Butler, The Guardian08.10.08
The Conservatives may have very few concrete policies, but they have at least discovered that there is more to life than …
Picking up the pieces of a world in financial meltdownStephen maxwell, TfN03.10.08
Those waves go far beyond the impact on charitable fundraising already being felt in the cancellation of some prestig…
Green C Kayaks launched their newly formed company this week - two years after winning the Dragons Den at the Social Enterprise Ceilidh.. David McBride and Julie Belasco won £4000 after pitching to…
Ray of hopeSaba Salman, The Guardian01.10.08
What is missing from the Sunlight centre is just as striking as what the award-winning, much-feted community venue and social enterprise actually has to of…
Britain on a plateFelicity Lawrence, The Guardian01.10.08
There was a moment in the first episode of the new Jamie Oliver TV series last night when the Essex-lad-made-millionaire had an outburst worth…