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SEWM now incorporates the Social Enterprise Centre of Expertise (SECoE). SECoE will be working strategically to improve mainstream business support for social enterprises in the region.

Melanie Mills (Business Services Assessor) and Laurence Green (Skills Development Broker) have joined SEWM, to work as part of SECoE. 

SECoE will work closely with Business Link West Midlands (BLWM) and other organisations that provide business support to social enterprises. Resources will be available to fund accredited and non accredited training of business advisors and direct feedback from BLWM clients will be gathered and used to influence the package of support made available. 

Over the next few weeks the new SECoE staff will be visiting various SEWM members across the region, as well as the other CoEs and some of the organisations who deliver training and provide business support to managers of social enterprises and would-be entrepreneurs.

SECoE is one of four Centres of Expertise funded by Advantage West Midlands.  The others centres are focused on minority ethnic, young peoples and women’s enterprise. Each area has been identified as being under-represented in the region’s economy.

Laurence Green, Skills Development Broker at SEWM said: “This is an area I am particularly passionate about and I thoroughly look forward to playing my part in helping to ensure the success of Social Enterprises in their many forms.”