Investment in The Media Bus

We have just offered an investment of £344,573 to The Media Bus. £297,527 of it will be a loan and £47,046 will be a grant.
The Media Bus is a social enterprise in Poole that was set up by White Lantern Film as a solution to the growing demand for educational projects and digital media training [...]

Angela Smith, minister for the third sector at Good Deals 09

This morning, I listened to Angela Smith MP, minister for the third sector, speak at Good Deals UK - the national social investment conference.
She pointed out that social enterprises contributed £8.5 billion to the UK economy in 2005, and added that ‘we need to unlock the power of the third sector’ in order to ‘create [...]

New public sector contracting opportunities 20 October

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Public service delivery through social enterprise

I spent this morning at the Public Service Delivery Through Social Enterprise event held at RIBA in central London. A good mix of people from social enterprises, commissioners and public sector staff.
First up is Eilis Lawlor from the New Economics Foundation who talks about its approach to social return on investment. Her main point is [...]

Martin Atkinson from Treehouse talks about the Futurebuilders investment

Futurebuilders at the opening of the National Centre for Autism Education

Hannah Grant, The Social Investment Business’ Website Assistant went to the opening of the new Centre for Autism Education. We had provided £5.2 million for this new centre to Treehouse, the national autism charity.
At the opening Hannah spoke to Treehouse’s Finance Director, Martin Atkinson, and a parent, Virginia Bovell OBE.
This what they had to say.

New public sector contracting opportunities 12 October

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The Social Enterprise Investment Fund announces eight great investment products

The Social Enterprise Investment Fund announce eight investment products to help enable social enterprises to better deliver health and social care services.

New public sector contracting opportunities 6 October

Some of the latest public sector contracting opportunities with approaching deadlines.

TreeHouse officially open inspiring new building

Yesterday I had the privilege of attending the official opening of the Pears National Centre for Autism Education.

New report from the NCVO - The state and the voluntary sector

I was reading the NVCO’s new report The State and the Voluntary Sector - Recent trends in government funding and public service delivery this morning and there are some really interesting stats in there.
The third sector’s total income in 2006/07 was £33.2 billion, more than three times that of the car manufacturing industry. Just under [...]