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…
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…
An eye to the future
Our next series of virtual learning exchanges will be in March. Funded by the Scottish Community Alliance they cover themes identified by Rural SEN members as key to their future development. We will kick off on March 9th with Involving Young People in Rural Social Enterprise hosted by Inspiralba. On March 16th the theme will Read more…
Flexible Workforce Development Fund – Now also available to SMEs!
Do you want to upskill staff, offer development and training opportunities to move on your business? If so, you may be eligible to apply for funding to help you access this training.
FREE Employability Course
FREE Course to enhance your employability skills!
Communities Leading in Tourism – SEA
The Social Enterprise Academy are now recruiting for the final cohort of learners for their Communities Leading in Tourism programme – which starts in January 2021. Read more about this opportunity on the SEA website. What is it? Communities Leading in Tourism is a personal development programme, which will equip learners with the knowledge and Read more…
Interface Student Opportunities
Need some help with social media, website development, marketing, business planning in these difficult times? Interface, which matches up businesses with a Scottish university to carry out a project to help in some aspect of running your business, would like to make you aware of the following student opportunities. As these will be done digitally, Read more…
New Courses starting January 2021!
Join one of Dumfries & Galloway College’s January-start courses for an intense six-month course to upskill, reskill and learn something new!
IMPACT30
Highlands and Islands Enterprise have recently launched IMPACT30, a new programme for young business leaders from across the Highlands and Islands. WHAT IS IT? IMPACT30 is a programme designed to develop young business leaders of the future and is custom-designed to help you make an impact in your industry. HIE will work with you Read more…
18th August 20, Rural SEN Notes
18/8/20 notes – Scotland’s Rural SEN met earlier in August, with 34 people attending from across Scotland. The group included social and community-owned enterprises, representatives from support agencies, and supporters of and those interested in rural social enterprise. We welcomed fellow social entrepreneurs from Estonia, connected via the Erasmus+ ViSEnet project, who joined the meeting Read more…
Apply for the Communities Leading in Tourism Programme
There’s never been a more important time for communities to take the lead in tourism. We’re all saying we don’t want to go back to how it was before – unmanaged tourism, creating social and infrastructural problems without real benefits for local people, yet we’re sliding back into this already. Across the world communities are Read more…