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Salford students get ‘social’ – and show their entrepreneurial flair!
Students at All Saints
STUDENTS from a Salford college came up with their own enterprising plans after being given a unique insight into social businesses.
They developed a range of new ideas for social businesses locally, based around the environment, youth and sports facilities after spending the day finding out about social enterprise. [Read more →]
Our values, our community
SOUND Communication provides ethically-based PR, media relations and communications services.
We are a social enterprise founded on ethical values.
We believe in social and economic progress, human rights and respect for the environment.
If you share these values, we would love to work with you.
We are an independently regulated Community Interest Company (CIC), run co-operatively and based in Manchester and Liverpool.
As a social enterprise, our profits are ploughed back into the company to develop our business and to benefit our community.
We define our community as:
social enterprises, co-operatives, charities, trade unions and other Third Sector organisations and others committed to social and economic justice, human rights and respect for the environment
Does that include you?
We want to work with anyone – public body, private company, Third Sector organisation, or individual – who shares or supports our values.
Or who wants to do business differently.
As long as it’s SOUND.
Hazel Blears promises new unit to promote social enterprises
COMMUNITIES Minister Hazel Blears is to set up a crack Social Enterprise Unit to push for change in local authorities and across Whitehall.
She made the announcement during the successful Voice 08 Conference in Liverpool, organised by the Social Enterprise Coalition.
Ms Blears, MP for Salford, told the conference that she wanted the Unit to be a beacon encouraging the public sector to raise its sights and look at the provision of services by social enterprises.
She said that councils were already recognising that they could hand over disused buildings to become homes for new community enterprises.
Ms Blears also said that she wanted to forge stronger links between the private sector and community enterprises.
She told the conference, attended by hundreds of social enterprises: “I want to make sure that community enterprise runs right through my Department’s DNA.
“Not just a few officials responsible for the Third Sector, but a whole department thinking and questioning whether what we are doing is creating an environment in which you can thrive.
“Whether it’s regeneration, tackling homelessness, or the £1.5bn Working Neighbourhoods Fund, I want to make sure we’re taking into account the contribution you could make.
“And of course our responsibility for local government is crucial – encouraging them to work with you not just as potential providers of public services, but also as local employers, market makers and stakeholders in local communities.
“That’s why we are forming a Social Enterprise Unit, a team dedicated to putting social enterprise first, to showing the vast potential of working in partnership with you. I want the team to be a beacon across Whitehall and to town halls, encouraging everyone to raise their sights.”
Social enterprises – raising their voice
HUNDREDS of social enterprises arrive in Liverpool this week for their annual conference.
Voice 08 is organised by the Social Enterprise Coalition and features a series of debates as well as exhibitions – and a little bit of culture.
Communities and Local Government Secretary of State, Hazel Blears will be taking part on Wednesday along with Campbell Robb, Director General of the Office of the Third Sector and Jonathan Bland, chief executive of the Social Enterprises Coalition.
But as well as the great and the good, the conference will also be giving a platform to budding young social entrepreneurs on Tuesday afternoon – and to some of the creative stars of Liverpool’s Capital of Culture programme for 2008.
We hope to bring you reports from the conference this week.