ChangeThinking with SmithMartin

Category: Partnership News

National Childcare Week 2010

What I want to be……… Daycare Trust are asking children and young people of all ages to join them to celebrate National Childcare Week 12th – 16 th July. The art competition is…

Increasing digital participation!

The Digital Participation Fund deadline is approaching. Applications have to be with the fund by 5.00 p.m. on the 1st. June 2010, for this first round. Designed to support initiatives that increase participation in…

Social entrepreneurship – boring?

Nathaniel Whittemore has just published an interesting reflection on the role of business practices in social entrepreneurship. His work appears on the change.org site. The context of his article was a critique of the management…

How to lead?

We have been reading our positive psychology manuals this week. We have a number of projects undertaking governance change and developing a positive culture, flat organisations without ego driven collateral damage and still have…

Speak social enterprise – Speak Human

Getting your social enterprise or community business to the first £100,000 of turnover is the hardest part of your journey. Systems, structures, policies, products, people and partners all have to be engaged, transformed…

Supporting SME’s/Social Enterprise – your next move

The Supply National SME Engagement Programme is an initiative to raise awareness of, and to make more effective, the ability of smaller enterprises to bid for public sector contracts. By visiting the NSEP…

New Youth Citizenship web site

Pass on the message. Directgov have recently launched  Join – a new set of web pages for young people who are interested in volunteering, organisations that can help and the sources of funds…

Information from government

It is a great step forward to see the government’s new data portal data.gov.uk finally go live. The site seeks to aggregate information and data from a variety of sources, that can be…

Children in Poverty

Children in Poverty The target to halve child poverty by 2010 is unlikely to be met. Latest figures, as shown in Children and Young People Now,12- 18 Jan, show that around 2.9 million…

Home Access – technology for children

‘Home Access is the new Government programme which will help to ensure that more children in England have access to technology at home to support learning. Eligible low-income families (eligibility is based on…