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Social economy

Definition: Strengthening the social economy (the third sector), in particular the services of interest to the community, with a focus on improving the quality of jobs

Theme D partnerships concentrated on creating opportunities in the social economy and span work in both urban and rural areas, and with groups and organisations resourcing many social sectors. This involved work on local sourcing, research into social enterprise success factors, community work training and the development of social accounting tools. Products include web site directories, waste and recycling relating to community enterprises, learning materials on children and play, a guide on how to make access to public procurement real for social firms, toolkits, web sites, research, case studies, training courses and occupational standards and good-practice models.

Further Information:

• ECOTEC Thematic update paper: Theme D
• Theme D mainstreaming strategy

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E-Business >>Through a project match-funded by the Scottish Enterprise e-Business Group, the Equal Strengthening the Social Economy Partnership has produced a friendly, web-based guide to encourage uptake of ICT within social economy organisations.

Enterprise Accelerator >>Development trusts are growing across Scotland and making a real difference in regenerating the communities in which they are based.

Environmental Inclusion Programme >> The Environmental Inclusion Programme is a land-based programme that seeks to involve whole communities in aspirational activity around gardens that may lead towards social enterprises.

European Enterprise Plus (EE+) >> The SEASY Development Partnership is working with partners in Ghent (Belgium) and Krakow (Poland).

e-VOLUTION >> The second TCA, e-VOLUTION, is a partnership between Italy and, once again, e-learn2work.

F.A.S.T (Fair and Sustainable Trade) Food >> As the name suggests, F.A.S.T Food is a proposal to ‘ fast track ’ the growth of social enterprises across the North East’s food and drink industry.

Family Link Workers Training >> The aim of this programme is to train local community members to support health and social care professionals and to help community members gain appropriate skills and qualifications to support entry into work.

Funding and finance >>As part of the successful pilot “New approaches to Funding & Finance” led by CEiS, Forth Sector & HIE a range of tools have been developed which test out new ways of strengthening the growth and sustainability of the sector.

Good Moves into the social economy >> This pilot has been developing an infrastructure to encourage individuals with higher level skills to make the social economy sector their career destination of choice, in order to enable the social economy to increase its role in the delivery of high quality services.

Growing the Social Economy with Graduates >> This pilot has been using the skills of recent graduates to create a peripatetic graduate team providing support to targeted social economy organisations that have indicated a need for business support in areas such as marketing and IT development.

Guides for Social Enterprises: Key messages >> A series of guides for Social Enterprises about how to sell to the public sector.

Hidden Harm >> A UK government report Hidden Harm has identified a range of issues for families where parents are abusing drugs.

Highlands and Islands >>The partnership in the social economy zone worked well together building on systems to support Social Economy Organisations (SEOs) that were already in place.

HISEZ CIC (Highlands and Islands Enterprise Zone Community Interest Company) >> The HISEZ project is the development of a new company, limited by guarantee, known as HISEZ Ltd.

Improving EQuality >> The transnational work has been focused on a number of activities such as conducting joint research, making input to European policy development, hosting symposia and conferences and participating in study tours and exchange visits.

Independent Photography >>Independent Photography enables people to engage with digital lens based media arts through a range of creative programmes and activities.

Lanarkshire >>The Lanarkshire pilot supported organisations through developing their capacity; helping them exploit their potential; and supporting the sector by raising awareness, developing opportunities and supporting structures.

Lanarkshire Social Economy >> This pilot focuses on two areas of development: cluster development and the design of ‘The Lanarkshire Quality Standard’.

LSEP Development Fund >> A fund of £100,000 has been approved for Local Social Economy Partnerships (LSEPs) to submit bids of up to £15,000.

Observatory >> The Observatory is a research and policy unit that measures and evaluates the role of social entrepreneurship-based models of town centre management in terms of their impact on various stakeholders such as local residents, disadvantaged groups and small/medium-sized enterprises.

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