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ADEPT
ADEPT is a ground-breaking community development and capacity building agency delivering project work, training and consultancy at local and national levels.
At present it has more than thirty project staff in eight locations nationally. Each project is run in partnership with appropriate local agencies, and is geared to local circumstances and situations.
ADEPT offers services to local partnerships, local authorities, voluntary organisations, community development agencies, community groups, community empowerment networks, and others.
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Ashoka
Ashoka's mission is to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world.
Ashoka invests in people. It is a global organization that searches the world for social entrepreneurs—extraordinary individuals with unprecedented ideas for change in their communities. Ashoka identifies and invests in these social entrepreneurs when no one else will.
It does so through stipends and professional services that allow "Ashoka Fellows" to focus full time on their ideas for leading social change in education and youth development, health care, environment, human rights, access to technology and economic development.
Ashoka has invested in more than 1,500 Ashoka Fellows in 53 countries. Those Fellows have transformed the lives of millions of people in thousands of communities worldwide.
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BERR
The Department of Business and Regulatory Reform work to create the best environment for business success in the UK. They help people and companies become more productive by promoting enterprise, innovation and creativity.
BERR champion UK business at home and abroad. They invest heavily in world-class science and technology. We protect the rights of working people and consumers. And we stand up for fair and open markets in the UK, Europe and the world.
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Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Social Enterprise Network
The Bucks and Milton Keynes Social Enterprise Network (BMKSEN) is a membership organisation open to existing, potential and supporters of Social Enterprises in the counties of Milton Keynes and Bucks.
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Business Link in London
Business Link for London delivers impartial, expert and practical business advice to London's small and medium-sized businesses.
Every year they help thousands of businesses in London by providing:
-Tailored business support services
-Over 300 free factsheets
-Seminars, workshops and networking events
-Free grants search
-Free fortnightly email newsletter
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Business Link
Business Link is an easy to use business support, advice and information service managed by the DTI. Local presence across England, managed by business people for business people, means we are uniquely placed to identify business support services from across the government, voluntary and private sectors.
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Catalyst Fund Management and Research Ltd
Catalyst Fund Management and Research Ltd. is a venture capital and research company that pushes the social business sector to succeed.
Its experienced, enthusiastic and straight-talking team of investment professionals advises and aids companies in achieving their goal of becoming long-term sustainable social businesses. Key areas of expertise are corporate finance, other advisory services and the sourcing of non-executive directors.
Catalyst has also announced that Barclays bank has committed £5m to cornerstone its new fund which will invest in profitable, high growth social businesses.
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Changemakers
Changemakers supports and promotes community-based philanthropy. It raises
funds and makes grants to community-based public foundations.
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Charities Aid Foundation
CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) is an international non-governmental organisation providing specialist financial services to charities and their supporters. With 80 years of experience and a global network spanning five continents, CAF is committed to increasing the resources of charities and helping individual and corporate donors add value to their generosity.
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Charity Skills
Charity Skills is an independent and not-for-profit organisation. Our mission is to:
raise the core skills of our members in health and safety, human resources, finance, risk management and insurance, project management, law, and property. We do this by providing a specialist database, telephone helplines, seminars and a regular newsletter
to web enable charities and save members commercial sector fees by making available our stock of world-class technology at a small licence fee. Large and small charites use our technology, including Samaritans and Mencap.
We also have a specialist division providing websites accessible to people with learning difficulties.
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Co-Active
Co-Active develops co-operatives, community businesses, community development trusts and other types of social enterprises. It engages with individuals and communities, enabling them to create and use opportunities and fulfil their potential. Co-Active promotes, with other partner organisations, social economy solutions across a wide variety of regeneration programmes. It works with other economic development organisations to ensure the special contribution of the social economy is understood and usefully deployed.
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Coin Street Community Builders
Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB) is a development trust and social enterprise which seeks to make the South Bank a better place in which to live, to work and to visit. CSCB has overseen the completion of the South Bank riverside walkway; the creation of Bernie Spain Gardens, Gabriel's Wharf and Oxo Tower Wharf; and building of 220 new homes for people in housing need.
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Common Purpose
Common Purpose helps people in leadership and decision-making positions to be more effective: in their own organisations, in the community and in society as a whole.
They offer:
- a range of programmes for leaders of all ages, backgrounds and sectors
- websites for citizens who want to take the lead, people who dream of changing the world (or their part of it).
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Community Action Network (CAN)
CAN (formally Community Action Network)
CAN supports social entrepreneurs to scale up their businesses and maximise their social impact. We do this in two main ways.
1. provide affordable, high-quality serviced office space to the third sector.
2. provide social investment with strategic growth support to growing social enterprises
canhq@can-online.org.uk
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Community Enterprise Wales
Community Enterprise Wales is the network for organisations and individuals who are committed to developing community enterprise in Wales. It includes grass roots groups, which are operating or planning to establish community businesses, plus bodies who support them and the movement in Wales.
Community Enterprise Wales main aims are to promote the development of community enterprise in Wales and encourage expansion and co-ordination of resources for community businesses.
cewsjohn@aol.com
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Community Matters
Community Matters is the nationwide federation for community associations and similar organisations, with 1100 member organisations across the UK.
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Community Web
Community Web is a leading internet service provider. Community Web offers both Business and Residential High Speed DSL.
info@communityweb.net
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Co-operative and Mutual Solutions
Co-operative and Mutual Solutions (CMS) is an employee owned business providing specialist consultancy to co-operatives and social enterprises. CMS's three consultant Directors have a proven track record in developing co-operatives and social enterprises (worker co-operatives and employee owned businesses, community businesses, social firms, credit unions and other community finance initiatives).
CMS consultants have experience in both urban and rural environments, in designing and delivering development and support programmes (Government and European). CMS has close links with National and Regional co-operative organisations and are recognised experienced practitioners with a keen understanding of the Regional and National Policy environments.
phil@cms.coop
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Co-operative Assistance Network
CAN is a workers co-operative of specialist trainers and consultants. Established in 1989, CAN draws on a wide range of experience in developing the social economy sector and is now recognised as a leader in this field.
CAN provides specialist development services to co-operatives and community enterprises through business advice, training design and delivery, group facilitation, feasibility studies, development planning support and accessing appropriate funding.
services@can.coop
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Co-operative Business Consultants
Co-operative Business Consultants promotes participative and cooperative management methods and techniques.
They are a cooperative dedicated to helping other Cooperatives, Social Enterprises and Employee Owned Businesses.
info@cbc.coop
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