BCP E-Bulletin September
2009
BCP
News
- Welcome to New Members
- What is ProHelp?
- Social Enterprise
Update
- Free ProHelp
Surgeries
Other
News
- Free Support
for Creative Industries in Brighton
- Wanted! Female Social
Enterprise
Advocate for SEEDA
-
- Relate Seeks New Trustees
- The
Social Investment Business: Financing Growth in the Third
Sector Conference
- New Trustee Matching Group on the
Cupp Network
- National
Social Enterprise Photography Competition
- Consultation for the Updated
Sustainable Community Strategy for Brighton &
Hove
- BScene
Launch
BCP
News
1) Welcome to New Members
Al Tredinnick Consulting
IT Skills 4 Rural Kenya
Ecosys
Sussex Probation Area
Sussex Deaf Association
ProHelp offers
local businesses the opportunity to make a real difference to
the success of community organisations that have big plans and
limited resources. By offering ‘in-kind’ practical advice and
support, you can advance the vital contribution those
organisations make to the local community and help them to
achieve sustainability in the long term.
BCP manages the
ProHelp programme in Brighton and Hove. It brings
partnership expertise and local knowledge. Between March
and June 2009 alone BCP brokered over £25,000 of ‘in-kind’
activity.
The Business
Benefits:
- Participate
in real change and impact in the community.
- Extend your
network with new business contacts.
- Enrich your
understanding of and reach into new markets.
- Develop the
skills and enthusiasm of your team.
- Bring
innovation, new techniques and ideas into your
company.
- Build
ethical value into your brand and raise your profile in the
local community.
- Create a new
competitive edge fit for the future.
‘As a community law firm,
Martin Searle Solicitors is pleased to support a project which
enables the voluntary sector to access specialist advice. It’s
great to be working with BCP on this vital
service.'
3) Social Enterprise
Update
Social Enterprise
Steering Group Joined by 2 New Social
Enterprises
Social Enterprise Action
Plan
The steering group are
working hard to finalise the action plan for the delivery of
the social enterprise strategy. The plan is being submitted to
Cabinet in September so, all being well, it should be endorsed
and ready to hit the streets some time in the
autumn.
Equalities Impact
Assessment on the Action Plan
Alongside the development
of the action plan an Equalities Impact Assessment is being
carried out in order to
examine how equality and diversity is considered by the
steering group and within the Action Plan.
Accountancy
Surgery
16th
September 2009 -
3 spaces available
Surgery with David
Martin of Mazars offering support with a wide
range of accounting needs for social enterprises and
charitable organisations. For example:
- How to set up a charity
and ongoing requirements
- General accountancy
- Requirements of SORP 2005
and financial reporting
- Interaction with Charity
Commission
- Banking, fund raising,
cash flows and business planning
- Record keeping and
bookkeeping requirements, including Gift Aid
- Direct taxation
- PAYE and national
insurance matters
- HR advisory
Business Planning
& Organisational Development
Surgery
27th
August 2009 - 1 space available
29th September 2009 - 2
spaces available
Surgery with Judith
Cousins of JBEventus offering Support with
planning for the future, organisational or structural changes,
or any particular business issue that would benefit from an
external eye to help find the right solution.
“Clear advice about
vital next steps.” “Vital advice and support –
more of it!”
Social Enterprise
- ‘Make it happen!'
2nd September 2009
(FULLY
BOOKED)
Further Dates (TBC
– please enquire)
For aspiring and
established social enterprises that need a bit of time and
space to talk things through with social enterprise experts. A
practical and supportive exchange designed to help your ideas
‘happen'.
The experts are from the local community and
have skills in Creativity, Communications, Development,
Finance, Fundraising, Marketing, Motivation & Operations.
With many years of successful experience and commitment behind
them, this will prove to be an important step in making your
ideas happen.
“Helped us focus and
concentrate. Gave us confidence as well as highlighting
potential barriers/problems. The broad range of experience
from the mentors created a really good balance.”
For details on all
surgeries and to reserve a place email kate@bhbcp.org.uk or call 01273
770075
A £25 returnable deposit
cheque is required in advance and will be returned if 48 hours
notice of cancellation is given. Spaces are limited on a first
come first served basis.
Other
News
1) Free Support For Creative
Industries In Brighton
Three free events have been
specifically designed to offer support to the creative
industries in Brighton & Hove. The interactive sessions
will run as part of the ‘Business Lifebelt’ package that has
been working since March to help businesses in the city get
through the recession.
Wednesday 9th
September - Show me the money!
Creative financing for
creative people
Wednesday
23rd September - The secret of my success
Effective marketing for
creative businesses
Wednesday 8th
October - Have you got the X, Y and Z factor?
Why
diversifying your talents can grow your
business
6.30pm - 9.00pm The
Basement, Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ.
2)
Wanted! Female Social Enterprise
Advocate for
SEEDA
Wanted! Could
you be A Female Social Enterprise
Advocate for
SEEDA?
The South East England
Development Agency (SEEDA) is expanding its portfolio of
Women’s Enterprise Advocates and is looking to recruit a
successful women entrepreneur working in a Social
Enterprise.
Through the advocacy
programme, SEEDA aims to increase representation of women’s
business issues in the media and encourage more women to step
into business-ownership. Advocates can expect to raise
their profile and receive personal invitations to speak at
women’s networks, schools and events. Advocates will
gain the opportunity to influence women’s enterprise policy at
local, regional and national level, while offering support,
encouragement, promotion and advice to women
entrepreneurs.
If you run a Social Enterprise in
the South East and are interested in putting yourself forward
as a SEEDA Women’s Enterprise Advocate p lease contact Joanna Ashmead on 01372
363386 or at Joanna@prowse.co.uk.
3) ESF Community Grants Available for
3rd Sector
Grants of up to £12,000 are
available to third sector organisations in the South East
through the small grants scheme run by Surrey Community
Action and administered in Sussex by Action in Rural Sussex. Applications are
invited from charity or 'not for profit' and voluntary and
community organisations based and providing services in Sussex
to support the most disadvantaged individuals not in
employment to access further learning opportunities or
progress to
employment.
Priority will
be given to groups who work with:
- Lone parents
- Women
- People with
health/disability issues
- Older people (50 years
plus)
- People from ethnic
minorities and diverse communities
Closing date:
21st September 2009, 12pm. For more info click here.
4) Relate
Seeks New Trustees
Do you want to make a
difference? Do you share our vision of a future in which good couple and
family relationships form the heart of a thriving
society? Do you identify
with the needs of those whose relationship is breaking down?
Can you communicate effectively and possess business or
relevant experience?
We are looking for special
people with a range of skills and experience to become
trustees of Relate here in Brighton.
5) The Social
Investment Business: Financing Growth in the Third Sector
Conference
Central Hall Westminster, Thursday 17th
September, 10 am - 1 pm
Download conference
brochure Book your free places online
A
special half-day conference and networking lunch, hosted by
Futurebuilders England, on how to finance the continued growth
of the third sector.
The event is designed for charity
chief executives, finance directors, trustees and other third
sector leaders and will be exploring what more might be done
by social investors, Government and the private sector to
provide investment finance to help the sector continue to
grow. It will also examine the future of public service
delivery.
The conference is hosted by Futurebuilders England, in association with
leading fundraising, management and recruitment consultancy,
Action Planning. The programme
includes:
- A keynote address from the Office of the Third
Sector
- The Rt Hon Francis Maude
MP, Member of the Shadow Cabinet with responsibility for the
third sector.
- Monsieur Hughes Sibille,
Director General of Crédit Coopératif and a prime mover in
the establishment of a European Social Investment
Bank.
- Sir David Varney, who
served as Prime Minister's Adviser on Public Service
Transformation.
- Lord Victor Adebowale,
Chief Executive of Turning Point, one of Britain's leading
service delivery charities.
- Stephen Bubb, Chief
Executive of ACEVO and Chair of Futurebuilders England.
6) New Trustee Matching Group on the
Cupp Network
To bring community and
voluntary sector organisations and potential trustees
together, Cupp has set up a Trustee Matching Group on the Cupp Network. The Cupp Network is a social
networking site for anyone involved or interested in
community-university engagement. This is to help the many
community and voluntary sector organisations looking for
additional members for their boards of trustees to access the
significant pool of potential recruits available through
universities.
This group offers
opportunities:
- for community and voluntary sector organisations looking
for additional members for their board of trustees to
advertise available positions for free with a view to
recruiting University of Brighton staff and other local
universities
- for University staff, who
are looking for an opportunity to support their local
community while enhancing their own personal and
professional development to search for suitable openings as
a member of a board of trustees.
- to access more information
on what being a trustee means.
If you feel this could be
of interest to you please email h.eis@brighton.ac.uk,
who will invite you to join the Trustee Matching group on the
Cupp Network.
7)
National Photography Competition Calling for Entries that
Capture and Celebrate Social
Enterprise
The second annual Social Enterprise Day
Photography Competition has been
launched. This year, the competition is looking to
reward the best amateur photographs that show how social
enterprise is 'more than just business as usual'. The winning
photographs will capture how social enterprises are leading
the way in sustainable, successful business that is
transforming communities and lives every day.
Entries are being accepted
across England from today until 19 October. Winners
will be announced on 19 November, Social Enterprise Day
- a national day to celebrate and promote social
enterprise.
8) Consultation for the Updated
Sustainable Community Strategy for Brighton &
Hove
Creating the City of
Opportunities, the Sustainable Community Strategy for Brighton
and Hove is currently being updated with a refreshed version
due to be published early 2010.
As part of the process of
creating the strategy, three public information events will be
held at the Jubilee Library on:
- 3rd September (6pm -
8pm),
- 9th September (12pm -
6pm)
- 15th September (6pm -
8pm).
These informal drop in
sessions will be an opportunity for members of the public to
find out more about the Brighton & Hove Local Strategic
Partnership, its members, and the Sustainable Community
Strategy.
This will be an opportunity
to provide feedback and comment about the content of the
strategy, what you would like to see within it, which issues
are most important to you. You will also be able to obtain
information about the family of partnerships and the work they
are involved in.
8) B.S.c.e.ne Launch
BCP would like to
pass on news of the launch of a new partnership between
Westwerks and the Life Project. B.S.c.e.ne - the
Brighton Social Creative Entrepeneurs NEtwork - will launch at
a free event on Thursday 10th September from 6pm - 8pm, at
Westwerks, 41-43 Portland Road, Hove, BN3 5DQ.
Please
sign up on Event
Brite (search for BScene), contact Emma on 01273 900904,
or email emma.wallace@westwerks.org.uk for
more details.
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