Social Enterprise Summit: 10-11th June 2015, Inverness The Brief To organise a two-day social enterprise event in the Highlands and Islands with a conference, networking reception and exhibition. This event, the first of its type in the Highlands aimed to attract 160+ conference delegates and 30+ exhibitors offering social enterprises the opportunity to meet, trade, […]
No description available.Social Enterprise Summit positions Highlands and Islands at the forefront
On 10-11th June, CEIS in partnership with Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Social Enterprise Scotland held the Social Enterprise Summit, a first of its kind exploring the challenges and opportunities for rural social enterprises. The event, heralded as a success, was attended by over 200 delegates from across the UK, Canada, Australia and China […]
No description available.Social Enterprise Summit provides global focus
Lee Mannion from Pioneers Post attended the Social Enterprise Summit and has outlined some highlights from the event: The social enterprise summit in Inverness has been a whirlwind of speeches, debates and purposeful associating. Both speakers and attendees have represented the diversity of the people involved with and working for social enterprises in Scotland and […]
No description available.Social Enterprise Global Climate Emergency [CEO blog]
Among the maelstrom of political events unfolding at the moment one thing has been prominent in my thoughts of late…. The ever-concerning warming of the planet and the implications this will have, not just for our natural environment but for those who can least afford to deal with the consequences and the volatility in years […]
No description available.CEIS event management of Summit hailed a success
CEIS, in partnership with Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Social Enterprise Scotland held the Social Enterprise Summit in Inverness on 10-11th June 2015 to mark HIE’s 50 years milestone of supporting local businesses and communities in the Highlands and Islands. 89% of delegates found the event management to be excellent or very good and […]
No description available.Deputy First Minister of Scotland backs social enterprise
Lee Mannion from Pioneers Post attended the Social Enterprise Summit and has outlined some highlights from the event: The Deputy First Minister, John Swinney, has pledged the Scottish government’s support for social enterprise in Scotland. In a speech in which he also praised Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) for 50 years of development […]
No description available.First nations group establish the first Social Enterprise in Canada!
A short history of Social Enterprise in Canada’s Rural & Aboriginal Communities by David LePage, Chair, Social Enterprise Council of Canada Most histories of North America and Canada begin when the Europeans landed and immigrated in the 16th through 19th centuries. But the Indigenous communities lived across the continent for many centuries prior to then. […]
No description available.The Times They Are A-Changing…
Will ‘for-profit’ firms change social enterprise for better or worse? The Mile-High-City of Denver, Colorado has a rarified atmosphere and a reputation for doing things differently. Originally a mining outpost during the Colorado Gold Rush, it has always attracted pioneers, including social entrepreneurs. Denver’s SAME (So That All May Eat) Cafe with its ‘pay-what-you-can’ policy […]
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