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Innovation Centre for Enterprise - Welsh ICE. LEAD Wales | LEAD WALES. Our programme has been specifically designed to take account of your needs as a leader or owner-manager of a small to medium sized business or social enterprise. It is delivered from various locations across Wales and addresses the challenges you encounter, recognising and dealing directly with the issues that impact on your business in a dynamic and effective way. We provide you with access to our experienced group development leaders, qualified coaching professionals and expert master class speakers. You will also benefit from the diverse mix of knowledge and experience of your peers. Our Leadership Development programme, is delivered to all eligible leaders and owner-managers without charge. Commercially the programme actual cost is £10,671. What is asked of you is that you agree to commit to spending a total of 20 days with us, over a period of 10 months – 2 days per month.

Our programme incorporates elements which build towards a Thursday 30th October & Thursday 20th November. Center Point's Understanding of the Seven Principles & Cooperative Solidarity | ICA: International Co-operative Alliance. Nesta - innovation in the UK. TechUK - Home. Invent. Getlegal.org.uk. For circuit riders.

Women in business

New Profit Inc. Advice and Support for Welsh Businesses - Encompass Consulting. Sell2wales: Welcome to Sell2Wales - Sell2Wales. Business Wales | Supporting businesses in Wales. Social design in Wales - ThinkARK. On Purpose | The leadership programme for the next generation of high-flyers. Welcome to Microzone Wales. Visceral Business | Developing social organisations since 2008. E-business support from the Welsh Government | Business Wales. Startups.co.uk. Enterprise Nation | Small business support | Join our Club! Seedrs | Invest In Startups Online. UnLtd- for Social Entrepreneurs.

Social enterprises

iSmooth cafe franchise pack. Best to invest? | NPC NPC. Social investment is the provision of repayable finance to charities and social enterprises with the aim of creating social impact, and sometimes generating a financial return. Currently, relatively few grant-making trusts and individual philanthropists (collectively funders) are involved with social investment. These tend to be the larger UK grant-makers with professional staff and enough resources to be innovators in the sector. However, interest in social investment among funders is growing. Deciding if it’s right Funders considering social investment should focus on how it could help them achieve their mission.

Social investment promotes greater alignment between funders’ social mission and investment portfolio, and creates the potential to achieve greater social impact through the recycling of funds. The decision is often framed as the choice between making a grant or social investment. Getting started. Social Value Lab - Welsh Business Shows. Social Enterprise Focus. How was exploreB2B created. ExploreB2B was founded in March 2010 by Jonathan and Susanna Gebauer. exploreB2B’s mission is change and drastically improve Business to Business communications worldwide.

With this in mind the internetplatform exploreB2B has been developed and was first announced in April 2010. In November 2010 a first public version of the platform was launched for the German market and in January 2012 the international and greatly improved version of the platform was introduced. Partners exploreB2B is currently funded via the “Programm für Forschung, Innovation und Technologie” (Program for Science, Innovation and Technology, ProFIT) by the Berliner Investitionsbank (IBB).

For the ongoing development, a close partnership to the Berlin based agency Modus Operandi has been established. Team Jonathan GebauerJonathan Gebauer studied Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin. Dr. Max SchulzeMax Schulze has been part of the startup scene since 2004. Technical development is also supported by Modus Operandi. Welcome | Social Firms InfoMine. Social enterprise network | Guardian Professional.

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