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ClearlySo Newsletter 

Keeping you informed about our events in the social business and enterprise sector

 Greetings!  


Welcome to the Social Business Bulletin. Here's what's in store this week.  

 

SBC10
Scenes from last year's conference 

Final call: Social Business Conference 2011  

Best of the blog: with a report from SoCap11

Building Better Business: Using 2012 to build better business 

Social Business Focus: Bringing wealth to Palestine 

Sarah Dodds Fund: Investor Readiness 2011

Upcoming Events: New events from ClearlySo

Latest jobs: Browse vacancies on our free jobs board         

 

P.S. Please forward this to anyone you think would be interested, and help us raise the profile of our member businesses.

 

    

Final call: Social Business Conference

Excitement is mounting for next week's ClearlySo Social Business Conference. Great speakers, a record attendance, plus the brand new Social Business of the Year Live Award - it looks set to be a day to remember.  

 

There are still just a few tickets left. Book your last minute places here.  

 

Best of the blog
Fred Turok
Fred Turok 

American dream 

Social Business Manager Simon Evill reports back from San Francisco at SoCap11.  

 

Getting fit for work

Fred Turok, founder of LA Fitness, on the importance of building work skills in young people. 

 

Banking on the social economy 

Rodney Schwartz asks if the time has come for social enterprise to engage with the big bad banks.

 

Social enterprise and the public sector 

Look back at our Guardian seminar where we asked if social enterprises could save struggling public sector assets.

 

Building Better Business

London 2012 can be a catalyst for all sorts of good things. This, at least, is the view of arc, a service which aims to use Olympic fever to connect the world of big business with social enterprise. It has the ambitious aim of creating 1,000 new jobs by 2015. Head to their website to find out more.   

 

Social Business Focus: Zaytoun

ZaytounZaytoun is an inspirational community interest company looking to use trade to address many of the poverty issues in Palestine. It hopes to create a market for olive oil farmers who have seen their access to the Gulf trade dry up. Founder Cathi Pawson told us more on our blog. 

 

Sarah Dodds Fund opens for business

Sarah DoddsThe Sarah Dodds Investor Readiness challenge is up and running. The fund is looking for applications from social ventures in London and the South East looking to go from initial stages to scale.  

 

The prize - up to �20,000 - is designed to ensure the winning applicants can successfully scale their activities through 2012. For more information and to find out about the fine work being done by the fund step this way.   

 

Upcoming events

11th Oct: Social Business Conference 

Head to our conference page for updates on speakers, topics and news on the Social Business of the Year Live Award.

20th Oct: Social Investment Evening with Coutts & Co 

Calling all social entrepreneurs in the Midlands: sign up to our next Social Investment Evening in Birmingham for the chance to pitch your business to a room full of high net worth investors.

27th October: Teatime Q&A 

Head to our offices for some advice, debate and a damn fine cup of tea.     

 

Jobs in social enterprise

Head to our jobs board for the latest vacancies in social enterprise. Here are some of the latest.  

 

Latest news

Here's a roundup of what's kept us interested this week?

 

    
  

    

That's all for now. Have a great weekend. In the meantime, don't forget to check out www.clearlyso.com for everything you need from social enterprise.

Cheerio,

Tom Cropper
ClearlySo