SE Business Support: It is Scotland that leads the way?

Posted on 21 June 2011

By Kevin Maton, SEWM Network Director

Clearly there are real advantages for social enterprises in Scotland from being independent of the very muddled thinking about specialist business support we are suffering from in England. As the press release below shows, a collaborative approach based on existing knowledge and expertise has been followed to ensure that there is a real joined-up approach that meets the needs of the sector. We have two articles in the latest ‘Se’ Magazine (to be published July 2011) that explain the real concerns about the availability of support and advice services for social enterprise in the West Midlands. Certainly, we can only look towards colleagues in Scotland with some degree of envy as they benefit from a much more enlightened approach being pursued by the Scottish Government.

Just Enterprise

15 June 2011

We are pleased to announce, the new Scottish Government contract for Business Support services for Enterprising Third Sector Organisations has been secured by the Just Enterprise consortium. Just Enterprise will deliver business support and learning services across Scotland and will integrate for the first time, start up, business support and learning and development services to Social Entrepreneurs and Enterprising Third Sector Organisations.

The contract will be delivered by a consortium of the major social enterprise support providers in Scotland under the banner of Just Enterprise including CEiS, HISEZ, Firstport, Social Enterprise Academy, CEMVO Scotland, Forth Sector Development, Community Enterprise Ltd, Lanarkshire Enterprise Services Ltd, Inspiralba and Ready for Business.

Comments Off