The Social Renewal Advisory Board (SRAB) was set up by Scottish Govt in September 2020 – to come up proposals that can renew and transform Scotland once we start to emerge from the pandemic. SRAB’s work included a series of ‘community listening events’; ‘deep dive’ focus groups; a ‘call for ideas’ from national and local organisations; as well as nine ‘policy circles’.
A couple of things to highlight in this first Social Enterprise Health & Wellbeing Newsletter of the year –
P4P is offering its Procurement Healthcheck consultancy service free of charge for the first 10 SEN members who sign up before the end of February. This includes an assessment and report to help you identify your strengths and areas for improvement to support you to become “tender ready”. These are being offered on a first come first served basis, so if interested get in touch with the P4P team.
During 2020, as we were all trying to get to grips with the Covid pandemic and its impact on our lives, SENScot hosted two week-long events – in May, SE Reset Week – and, in November, Restart and Rebuild Week. The focus of both weeks was to bring social enterprises from all across the country together to see how, working together, they could support one another in mitigating the impact of the pandemic on the services they provide and on the wellbeing of their local communities and staff.
We’d like to wish all our members, supporters and partners a happier and more positive 2021.
All SEN Session: Apprenticeships 10-11am, Wednesday 10th February
In the last Employability newsletter we highlighted a number of apprenticeship-related initiatives (eg, Pathways Apprenticeships, Apprenticeship Employer Grant) – hear more from Skills Development Scotland about these opportunities. Contact Jayne to register
SENScot’s work supporting a Community-led Tourism pilot in South Ayrshire and Angus is now beginning to pick up pace. Already, local steering groups have been set up in both Girvan (South Ayrshire) and Brechin (Angus) – made up of representatives from the community as well as the public and private sectors. Prior to the Christmas break, a tender brief for the evaluation of the pilot was sent out and, this week, interviews have been taking place.
Welcome to the January newsletter. Happy New Year! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas break, found some time to rest and maybe even time to play in the snow.
We’d like to kick off the first newsletter of 2021 by wishing everyone a very happy new year. Clearly the challenges of 2020 remain with us – but, like everyone, hope that the coming months will bring some much-needed respite. For our social enterprise community, we will be doing our very best to provide as much support as we can during the year ahead.