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SE Network News Edition No.13

24/09/2020

During our SE Reset week in May, mental health & wellbeing emerged strongly as one of the key themes – with social enterprises highlighting a range of issues relating to workforce; service users; and their wider community.  More recently, SCVO published its own report – ‘Coronavirus and its impact on the Scottish Voluntary Sector: a review of […]

SE Network News Edition No.12

17/09/2020

Final details of Scottish Govt’s Community & Third Sector Recovery Programme is due to be announced over the next week or so. Information, to date, suggests that the £25m fund is being made available ‘to create the best conditions for the third sector and volunteering to thrive and contribute to a recovering economy and society’. […]

SE Network News Edition No.11

10/09/2020

Social Enterprise Network Scotland is now in its third month and whilst our ‘settling in’ period is still with us, we have been fortunate, thanks to our staff, in being able to maintain our day-to-day activities relatively unhindered. Over the coming weeks, we will have more news on the shape and direction of travel for […]

SE Cultural & Tourism Newsletter – September 2020

09/09/2020

September 2020 Welcome to the September newsletter. We are in the process of developing a new website and want to fill it with wonderful images from social enterprises across Scotland- if you have high quality images you can share please get in touch. Please remember to send me updates for the next Newsletter and Senscot bulletins […]

SE Network News Edition No.10

03/09/2020

This week saw the First Minister announce Scottish Govt’s Programme for Government – Protecting Scotland, Renewing Scotland. Headlines have predictably focused on the plans for IndyRef 2, however, there are a raft of other measures that, in the view of the First Minister, will address the immediate priority of tackling the impact of the Covid […]

SE & Sport Newsletter – September 2020

03/09/2020

Welcome to September’s Sport Social Enterprise Newsletter It’s exciting to see so many sport social enterprises having opened their doors on Monday 31 August, or planning to re-open over the next month.  However, let’s not forget that there are still challenges to overcome.  Many of these organisations will be re-opening at a reduced capacity and […]

SE Network News Edition No.9

27/08/2020

Next week – Wednesday 2nd September – sees CEIS host its annual SE Policy and Practice Conference. Due to obvious circumstances, the event will be taking place ‘remotely’ – and, understandably, the theme this year is very much focused on ‘recovery’. The Programme for the day has three linked themes: the Wellbeing Economy; Climate Crisis; […]

SE Network News Edition No.8

20/08/2020

In recent weeks, we have highlighted the difficulties being experienced by Sport SEN members – and other organisations running sport or leisure facilities – including particular concerns about the lack of any dedicated support funding for their sector – as has been seen with other sectors. We’re pleased to report that Scottish Govt has now […]

SE Network News Edition No.7

13/08/2020

Within our social enterprise community in Scotland, ‘growth’ has always been a matter of some debate. The sector has regularly been encouraged to grow – create more jobs; become more sustainable; demonstrate greater social impact etc. This approach is often at odds with a sector, made up, overwhelmingly, of small, locally-based organisations, whose view of […]

SE & Employability Newsletter – August 2020

10/08/2020

Our News Community Learning Exchange and Thematic Network Meetings Virtual Community Learning Exchange to Prep Table Scotland – September 17th (10-12, 1-3pm)Prep Table (who recently announced their merger with Scran Academy) is a social enterprise aiming to make the food industry more open, fair and ethical for producers, suppliers, employees and customers.  Join their founder […]

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