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Charities told using 'social enterprise' brand will help them win funding 1

17 May 2013 | Vibeka Mair

Tags: Social enterprise | Social investment

St Andrew’s Healthcare, one of the largest charities in the UK, has been told by commissioners that calling itself a social enterprise will help it win contracts.

Charities told using 'social enterprise' brand will help them win funding

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Arts Council transfers trading arm to CIC to get BIG funding

Vibeka Mair
16 May 2013

Tags: Social enterprise

Arts Council England is to wind up its subsidiary ArtCo Trading and transfer its services into a new community interest company, so it can bid for Big Lottery Fund money.

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Tapping the housing association market 1

5 Apr 2013

Tags: Social enterprise

Sam Simmons says the aligned missions of housing associations, and charities and social enterprises can lead to fruitful working partnerships.

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Applications open for second round of Deloitte's Pioneers programme

Kirsty Weakley
28 Mar 2013

Tags: Social investment | Social enterprise

Deloitte has opened applications to the second round of its Social Innovation Pioneers programme, claiming the first year was a success.

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Big Society Capital to focus on 'plain vanilla lending' for charity sector

Vibeka Mair
27 Mar 2013

Tags: Social investment | Social enterprise

Big Society Capital will focus on unsecured lending for the charity sector and helping communities take over assets, over the coming months.

The clever people who devise tax avoidance and other scams by using charities are quite smart enough to be sure they get through Revenue and other data base scrutiny. The only way to stop or reduce this type of abuse is to come down much more heavily on those who deliberately misuse charities, whether as principals, advisers or beneficiaries.

» Joint registration for HMRC and Charity Commission is getting closer, suggests Hodgson

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Budget: Osborne delivers tax breaks for social investment

Vibeka Mair
20 Mar 2013

Tags: Social investment | Social enterprise | Budget 2013

The social investment sector has welcomed the news today that government will introduce a new tax relief for social investment in the Finance Bill 2014.

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New programme for charities to receive free business advice launches

Vibeka Mair
8 Mar 2013

Tags: Social enterprise

A new free scheme for charities or social enterprises to receive business support from the private sector has launched.

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'Support local business' - Big Issue attempts to shift perception of it as a charity

Niki May Young
7 Mar 2013

Tags: Social enterprise | Advertising | Brands and Marketing

The Big Issue is seeking to address the perception that it is a charity rather than a social enterprise in an M&C Saatchi-developed campaign launching today.

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CIC Association recommends changes to dividend cap

Vibeka Mair
14 Feb 2013

Tags: Social investment | Social enterprise

The CIC Association has recommended that the individual 20 per cent dividend cap be set against the profit a community interest company makes, rather than pegged to the value of an investor's initial stake.

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