Great news from Cornwall where our recent client, Smile Together CIC, has won the Cornwall Business Award 2017 for ‘Employer of the Year’.
Smile Together is Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly's leading primary care dental provider with a range of NHS and Public Health Contracts. We helped set up the new employee-owned structure - it is a community interest company limited by shares where all the shareholders are employees - and have advised on social impact reporting for the organization. Congratulations to Paul and the team. Full story here: http://www.cornwallbusinessawards.co.uk/winners/winners-2017.html.
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Here at Iridescent Ideas we are excited how Tech can change the world for the better. This is why we created the Forerunner Prize.
A recent BBC articles look at female entrepreneurs using Tech for good and in particular video games. After 12 years making games for education and training, Jude Ower went on to create an international games platform with a social conscience - Playmob. "After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Zynga, the creator of Farmville, launched a campaign to raise funds for the victims by selling an in-game item, with a percentage of each purchase going to help the victims," she explains. Read the full article: CLICK Charities are the “lifeblood of society” and government should better support them, a House of Lords select committee has concluded.
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We would like to thank the Paul Hamlyn Foundation for funding an extremely exciting project that we have been developing over the last 6 months.
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Third Force News in Scotland reports on the first ever dedicated, long-term, social enterprise strategy published in Scotland, it includes a number of steps aimed at growing the sector over the next 10 years.
Concentrated in three areas, the government will focus on stimulating social enterprises, developing stronger organisations and realising market opportunities. The article goes in to more depth about how this long term stregty and how it will help the growth of the sector in Scotland: CLICK |
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