Student Placement Opportunity – 3rd Year Law & Management at Robert Gordon University
Robert Gordon University are currently looking for an organisation to host student placements. The opportunity, which is now available through Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, would allow an organisation to benefit from having a 3rd student deliver a defined project in relation to Law and Management. Students studying the BA (Hons) Law and Management degree will Read more…
Community Solutions 2022 Diagrams
As part of current Community Solutions work, Outside the Box have produced a set of diagrams along with Health Improvement Scotland, to illustrate how community support and good communication links contribute to making life better for people and supporting other services. It started out as one drawing but grew too far – which is a Read more…
Fyne Futures Ltd Celebration
Fyne Futures Ltd recently held a celebration which honoured many of the achievements over the past couple years. They celebrated community participation in Bute Dignity in All Work project which was funded through the Scottish Government Investing in Communities Fund. This also recognised people who contributed to Fyne Future’s cookery skills events with the creation Read more…
Student Placement Opportunity – Postgrad International Tourism & Hospitality Management at Robert Gordon University
Robert Gordon University are currently looking for an organisation to host student placements. The opportunity, which is now available through Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, would allow an organisation to benefit from having a postgraduate student deliver a defined project in relation to International Tourism & Hospitality Management. The University are now actively seeking projects for Read more…
Student Placement Opportunity – Postgrad Health Sciences at University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen are currently looking for an organisation to host student placements. The organisation would benefit from having a student from one of U of A’s postgraduate health sciences courses do a dedicated piece of work over a 10 week period (2.5 days/week = 200 hours in total). These project placements will run Read more…
Dumfries and Galloway College’s Courses in Sustainability and Health & Social Care
Do you want to upskill or gain some new knowledge? Then this is your opportunity to do this via a range of Open Learning courses. If you meet the eligibility criteria you can enrol for FREE – deadline is 31st March 2022! Dumfries and Galloway College offer courses in IT and Cyber Security, topics relating Read more…
Illuminating Leadership Festival ’22 Programme
Taking place for the first time from 28th February to 3rd March 2022, Illuminating Leadership 2022 is a global online festival aiming to shed light on the benefits and opportunities, as well as challenges of collective, systems- and place-based leadership. Over the course of the four days, the festival will see a variety of self-hosted Read more…
Community Wealth Building in Rural & Island Scotland Report Published
Report from practitioner roundtable – December 2021 Organised by Scottish Rural Action, InspirAlba and the David Hume Institute, the roundtable brought together experienced practitioners to discuss rural and island wealth building strategies and to explore how wealth building policy, particularly the Preston model adopted by the Scottish Government may be leveraged to strengthen these Read more…
ViSENet Project Closing Event
Uist Social Enterprise Places Brochure
In January 2021, Social Enterprise Scotland (SES) announced the results of their first, Scotland- led Social Enterprise Places Programme. Uist was one of the areas where the panel felt there was much to highlight about the impact social enterprise has on the area. As a result, Uist was named as a ‘Social Enterprise Place’. The Read more…
SEWF: Rural Forum
On the 27th & 28th of October, the Social Enterprise World Forum hosted its first-ever virtual Rural Forum. Developed in partnership between social enterprises in Canada, Australia, India and Scotland, the forum was attended by people all over the world and was extremely well received. The event spotlighted Canada, while also addressing priorities and issues Read more…
The Leadership Campfires: September 1-2
The Leadership Campfires is a two-day online global festival bringing together people to explore experiences and ideas for practicing leadership as collaborative agency. The festival took place for the first time on 1-2 September 2021. It featured a variety of self-hosted 80-minute campfires scheduled throughout the two days and offered across varying time zones. It enabled participants Read more…
New funding for supporting new ideas in Rural Communities.
Not-for-profit community groups in rural areas will soon be able to apply for funding of up to £50,000 to trial new and innovative ways to address local challenges and benefit from local opportunities. The Rural Communities “Ideas into Action” Fund is supported by £1.5 million of Scottish Government funding and will be delivered in Read more…
A National Care Service for Scotland
Described as potentially the biggest public sector reform in Scotland for decades, the Scottish Government is consulting on the development of a National Care Service for Scotland. At a minimum it will cover adult social care, but the consultation covers the expansion of this to a comprehensive community health and social care service that will Read more…
Capable People – Hopeless Systems. Why do Scotland’s Leaders still think Big is Beautiful?
Journalist, land reform campaigner and Nordic Horizons Director, Lesley Riddoch will give this year’s John Pearce Memorial Lecture as part of the New Lanark Anniversary conference on October 12th. Full details in the attached flyer available here. This is a hybrid event and you have the option to attend face to face or online. Book Read more…
Funded Mental Health Awareness Training
Support in Mind Scotland are working in partnership with Mental Health UK to deliver a 3-year ‘Rural Connections’ project funded by Neptune Energy. As part of this project, SiMS is offering free half-day ‘An Insight into Mental Health’ awareness training to rural organisations, community groups and businesses with less than 50 members of staff. Read more…
Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) September 28th-29th2021
Designed by and for social enterprises, SEWF 2021 will champion the potential of social enterprises – small and large, rural and urban – to bring about inclusive and sustainable economic development. With a spotlight on Canada, the two-day programme will feature keynotes and plenaries with live Q&A, online networking and a virtual marketplace giving you Read more…
Rural and Island Views Needed
The Scottish Government is consulting the sector on the nature, values and services you would want to see from a single intermediary body for social enterprise as outlined in the new Social Enterprise Action Plan. You can add your views via this survey Survey– deadline 8th It is vital to have a strong rural and Read more…
Social Enterprise World Forum- Youth Forum
27 September Calling all young changemakers, join the SEWF Youth Forum on 27 September to connect, learn and be inspired! The event is free for all under 30s and the first 500 to register will get free access to SEWF 2021 on 28-29 September. Programme content will be designed by and for young social entrepreneurs and will Read more…
Island Communities Fund (ICF) Launched
Community organisations and businesses can apply for grants of up to £150,000 for projects focussed on supporting sustainable island economies and the journey towards net zero. The fund will support ‘shovel-ready’, island-based, community led projects that should be completed by 31st March 2022. More details: https://www.gov.scot/news/new-fund-opens-for-island-communities/
A new version of Scotland’s Social Enterprise Support Map
Developed by Community Enterprise and Bold Studio this free tool is designed to build connections between community and social enterprises and support organisations across Scotland. Categorised by type, location, sector and ambitions ‘this online tool is here to help you navigate the social enterprise support landscape with ease’. Access it here:https://sesupportmap.scot/
New Social Enterprise Action Plan
Inclusive growth through social enterprise Scotland’s Social Enterprise Action Plan/ 2021-2024 This second of three action plans for social enterprise was published on March 24th. It positions social enterprise as central to Scotland’s renewal rooted in fairness and equality and key to transformational change for communities and our people. Read the briefing note prepared for Read more…
Scottish Rural Parliament Youth Session
Are you aged 16-25 and live in a rural or island community? The SRP Youth Session is free, fully virtual and a chance to go through a visioning exercise facilitated by the Social Enterprise Academy on themes you are passionate about, and then question high profile decision makers. To attend, register for the SRP at https://www.srp2021.scot/
New Virtual Community Learning Exchange Series
We would like to invite you to our upcoming series of virtual community learning exchanges, funded by the Scottish Community Alliance. The sessions will focus on themes identified by Rural SEN members as important to their future plans, and will be hosted by social enterprises from Uist, Tiree, and Dumfries. See the links below to Read more…
