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Community Wealth Building (CWB) has become an increasingly familiar term across Scotland over recent years. Further to a visit to Preston in early 2019, SENScot invited Neil McInroy (then CEO at CLES) to our annual SE Conference and Ceilidh in November 2019 to share with us the key principles of CWB. Joining Neil that day was North […]
The new SE Action Plan (2021-24) outlines Scottish Govt’s intention ‘to fund an enhanced single intermediary body with responsibility for representing the social enterprise sector across Scotland’ (Page 36). SENScot supports this proposal seeing it as a genuine opportunity to work in the best interests of empowering communities and building a fairer society through having a strong, credible […]
Following the election in May of the SNP Govt for another five-year term – and the priority being given to our recovery from the impact of the Covid pandemic – this ‘long read’ suggests that it offers us the opportunity to re-examine the role and purpose of Scotland’s third sector – and the possibility for […]
Last Friday, we had a great turn out (around 60 folk) for our Fair Work session which looked at how social enterprises align with and embrace Fair Work.Fair Work is more important than ever and is at the heart of Scotland’s economic recovery and renewal. The Social Enterprise Action Plan states ‘while evidence suggests that social enterprises are […]
This week marks the first anniversary of the merger between Social Firms Scotland and ‘old’ Senscot – to become Social Enterprise Network Scotland (SENScot). As folk will appreciate, mergers are not without their challenges – and some of these have obviously been exacerbated by doing so during the current Covid pandemic. Over and above key practical issues […]
Social Entrepreneurs Network Scotland (Senscot) is registered as a Scottish charity under Scottish Charity No. SC029210 and as a limited company under Company Registration No. SC278156. Its registered office is at 41 Miller Street, Glasgow.
