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SE Network News – No 80

03 Feb 2022

SENScot’s Community Wellbeing Exchange (CWE) has received additional funding from Scottish Community Alliance and will now provide 20 community organisations with £1000 each to buy in mental health & wellbeing activities and services from social enterprises from across Scotland. A Supplier Call Out has now been circulated for organisations who may be interested in providing such services and activities. The […]

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SE Network News – No 79

31 Jan 2022

Earlier this month, SENScot hosted a session with SEN members to collate views and opinions to inform a SEN response to Scottish Govt’s current consultation on Ending the Need for Foodbanks. With responses invited by Tuesday, 25th January 2022, SENScot submitted this Response on behalf of SEN members, in the hope that the voices of frontline social enterprises can […]

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SE Network News – No 78

31 Jan 2022

SENScot has been involved in the delivery of Scottish Community Alliance’s Pockets & Prospects Programme since its inception in 2018 – see the 2021 Summary Report. Planning is now well underway for our 2022 Programme – now to be known as the Community Wellbeing Exchange. Earlier this month, we invited ‘notes of interest’ from Sport SEN members and […]

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SE Network News – No 77

13 Jan 2022

Scottish Govt’s consultation on becoming a Fair Work Nation came to an end in December.  Given how significantly social enterprises contribute to the Govt’s Fair Work ambitions, SENScot facilitated a series of consultation sessions to inform our response on behalf of SEN members.  Key messages to emerge included: Fair Work should mean fair work for everyone – reaching […]

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SE Network News – No 76

10 Jan 2022

Happy New Year! We wish to extend our best wishes – from the Board and staff at SENScot – to everyone across the sector for the year ahead and hope that the challenges we have all faced as a result of the pandemic will begin to ease as the months go by. Regular readers will […]

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SE Network News – No 75

10 Jan 2022

First of all, we’d like to take this opportunity to pass our very best wishes for the festive season to all our friends and colleagues across the sector and beyond. Over the years, SENScot has always used the last newsletter of the year to reflect on some of the ‘highlights’ over the previous 12 months. […]

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SE Network News – No 74

10 Jan 2022

This afternoon, Finance Secretary, Kate Forbes will be publishing the Scottish Budget for 2022/23. Advance headlines have focused on the welcome commitment by Scottish Govt to double the weekly child payment to £20 per week. It will be interesting to see what further measures are included to address, what most would agree, are the urgent environmental and […]

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SE Network News – No 73

10 Jan 2022

The Social Enterprise Census 2021 got underway at the start of November – and this Online Survey will remain ’live’ in the run up to Christmas. This is the fourth Census to take place – following those in 2015,2017 and 2019 – and , as before, the Census is being conducted by Social Value Lab. The Census is an important […]

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SE Network News – No 72

10 Jan 2022

Scottish Govt has this week published the findings of its recent survey on the Role of a Single Social Enterprise Intermediary Body. The survey’s findings will inform the criteria being used in the application process for the transition from the existing arrangement to that of a new, single intermediary body. The survey itself received 151 responses […]

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SE Network News – No 71

10 Jan 2022

As we highlighted last week, the Social Enterprise Census 2021 is now underway. This 4th Census follows those of 2015,2017 and 2019 and Social Value Lab is again conducting matters. To get things moving, they are asking if organisations could commit 15/20 minutes to completing this Survey and help ensure that they are able to […]

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