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Comment by Louis Coiffait 3 hours ago

touch-wood tomorrow will be my first time making this!

Comment by Sarah Tucker 8 hours ago

Hello everyone

As normal a quick reminder about tomorrow's Friday Social breakfast (24th Feb)taking place tomorrow from 9am in the Gerard Bar. We should have quite a few people coming including those involved in the next years Spotlight initiative including past Catalyst winners Kate Welch, Reap and Sow (giving offenders employment opportunities in the design and manufacture of garden products) and Maria Ana Neves with the recently launched Plan Zheroes initiative aiming to food waste.

Please also note the Celebration of Social Enterprise Spotlight event on Wednesday 7th March has over 100 people booked so if you would like to attend please register asap.

Many thanks and see you soon!

Sarah

 

  

Comment by David Floyd on Monday

Some exciting discussions on the growing interaction between social enterprises and corporates: http://beanbagsandbullsh1t.com/2012/02/18/more-on-meeting-the-corpo...

Comment by Jo Painter on Monday

Hi all,

Just thought I'd highlight a great opportunity to become a mentor to a budding social entrepreneur at the Emerge Venture Lab.

The Emerge Venture Lab seeks to empower the next generation of social impact drivers to discover and bring to market innovative business models that will help solve the world’s greatest problems.

The RSA and Emerge Venture Lab have partnered and are working to open up ways in which the Fellowship can support student social entrepreneurs through the Lab’s venture acceleration programme. 

The Lab has opportunities for RSA Fellows to become mentors and is looking to build a community of dedicated mentors, who will guide teams in the idea development and product testing phases of the programme.

For a full brief of what it means to be a mentor at the Lab and how the experience can enrich your personal and professional life, please contact Jan Matern. 

Comment by Sarah Tucker on February 15, 2012 at 4:04pm

Hello all,

Over the last year we have followed the journey of 8 social entrepreneurs as they try and succeed in today’s challenging environment. 

On Wednesday 7th March, 6-9pm we will be holding the last event for this year's Social Enterprise Spotlight participants (who are social entrepreneurs and Fellows). The event is titled A celebration of Social Enterprise - a year in the Spotlight.

We will be celebrating the stories, joys and tribulations of these organisations - and we want hear about yours as well!

Find out more and register for the event now 

Invitations will be going out soon but as members of the network, you get to be one of the first to hear about it.  If you would like to come please register asap to secure your place.

Many thanks and look forward to seeing you on 7th March!

Sarah on behalf of the Social Enterprise Spotlight group

Comment by Ben Dellot on February 10, 2012 at 3:11pm

Hi all,

Just following on from Sarah's message below, we're looking for Fellows who may be interested in attending the semi-final of the Universities Business Challenge event on the 2nd March. This is an annual competition where student teams from various universities come together to compete in virtual business simulation exercises.

As part of the semi-final event, the RSA will be holding its own challenge for the students, asking them to come up with a business model which can help address particular social problems or make use of social assets. For example, we might ask teams to try and come up with a business solution to the isolation felt among many older people. Many of these 'briefs' will be drawn from existing RSA Projects work.

It would be very useful for all involved if experienced Fellows could come along and help out at the event. You wouldn't have to have a deep knowledge of the particular social issues being covered; just an understanding of how these kind of issues might be addressed through a business/social enterprise model.

It would be an all-day event and we would be asking you to both advise the students as they develop their business solution and then to judge the final ideas at the end.

I realise it's quite a large ask for you to contribute a whole day of your time, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you're interested in coming along, please give me an email on benedict.dellot@rsa.org.uk, or a call on 020 7451 6836.

Thanks,

Ben Dellot (Projects Team)

 

Comment by Sarah Tucker on January 26, 2012 at 4:33pm

Hello all

Just reminding you about tomorrow's Friday Social Breakfast (Fri 27th Jan).  We'll meet at the Gerard Bar at 9am as usual. 

Amongst the normal discussions sharing recent successes and challenges, we will also be looking for real-life problems facing social enterprises which can be pitched to university students to study and hopefully solve via the University Business Challenge. We are looking for people/business ideas to get involved so look forward to hearing your thoughts.  (If you can't attend but have an idea please message me via this network.)  

See you tomorrow

Sarah

Comment by Sarah Tucker on January 20, 2012 at 12:59pm

Fr Tim Curtis has asked:

Would there be any interest for a East Midlands group? We can host Friday socials at the University of Northampton. Please let me know, as we would like to encourage fellows to meet here.

Do get in touch with Tim if you are interested in this. You can see the discussion and reply to him here:

http://rsafellowship.com/group/socialentrepreneursnetwork/forum/top...

Comment by Sarah Tucker on January 20, 2012 at 11:31am

Happy New Year everyone!

A couple of links came across my desk I thought I'd post in case you missed them:

Deloitte Social Innovation Pioneers - they are "looking for innovative businesses that have a clear and sustainable business model, the ambition to scale and can demonstrate sustained social and environmental impact." Applications are open until January 29^th 2012.

Santander Social Enterprise Development Awards - the awards "aim to support social enterprises and Community Interest Companies looking to grow their business and improve their local community." The deadline for this one is 3rd February.

Best of luck!

The first breakfast of 2012 will be next week, Friday 27th January, 9am in the Gerard bar, but I'll send another reminder next week.

Sarah 

Comment by David Floyd on January 20, 2012 at 9:24am

The campaign to have more social enterprise structures in the UK than social enterprises continues unabated: http://beanbagsandbullsh1t.com/2012/01/19/this-years-model/

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