“You are a force for good in our society too. You have the power, the creativity and the enterprise to tackle some of the most pressing social challenges we face.” So said David Cameron during a launch of the Big Society to business leaders. Many people nodded and agreed. If you are responsible for [...]

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Employee volunteering – for the inner & outer bottom lines   I came across this blog today from www.thenewpioneers.biz  Interesting stuff. You can use the Local Impact Measurement Tool to put a value on your employee vounteering. Just one of the many indicators used in the tool.    In a day and age where most [...]

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The value of analysis ……

On July 22, 2011 By

A blog today from the NPC made me think . They have a service that analyses Charities. How are they performing? What impact do they have? What makes them tick?  The blog considers why such analysis is important. Now, whilst they are focused on charities, their thoughts are true about any organisation. The report they have just [...]

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A guest blog from Kevin Moss, BT’s CSR guru in the US   See more at www.csrperspective.com    Now retired, my dad ran a small business for many years, tailoring and selling coats and dresses. He had a retail store with a small workshop behind it in Esher, a small village Southwest of London. Dad employed perhaps [...]

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Guest blog from Third Sector Magazine….. www.thirdsector.co.uk Beware evolving corporate responsibility programmes, warns Deloitte By Mark Wilding, Third Sector Online, 5 July 2011 Deloitte’s More Than Just Giving report More Than Just Giving report says many firms now focus not on giving money, but on improving their strategic relations with government and suppliers Charities have [...]

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Here´s a post from Adrian Ashton ……   So – that’s quite a grand and likely provocative sweeping statement, and given that I’ve been involved in impact reporting and social accounting(including the development of tool-kits for ‘doing it’ ) for over a decade, might be seen to some as a contradiction to what I’ve always argued [...]

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Everywhere you look in the media about the UK, it’s Big Society this, Big Society that! What’s not really clear is the part that businesses can play in it. The general drift in the media is that it is all about all us citizens volunteering to run services that used to be paid for! A [...]

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Blimey…has it been THAT long??

On February 6, 2011 By

We suddenly realised today that we hadn’t posted any blog since June last year…. that’s very bad. Very bad indeed. We haven’t kept the blog up to date. Does that mean we haven’t been doing anything?? Far from it… we’ve been really busy…. Since the last blog we’ve been …… Helping a local charity write [...]

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Social Enterprise is not a Noun

On February 6, 2011 By

That was quote from Liam Black over Twitter this weekend. Very timely too for us, as we are working on our Social Enterprise research project for Nottingham City Council. The problem of definition seems to be getting in the way. We have struggled to get a consistent understanding from organisations, including many who identify themselves [...]

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Valuing Volunteers

On February 6, 2011 By

This morning on thirdsectroforums.co.uk, Adrian Ashton (great writer & thinker by the way), posted up an article about valuing volunteers. We’ve just included the value of volunteering in our Nottingham economic impact research. We looked at the model Adrian posted as one of the contenders. We ended up using more of a Canadian model which [...]

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