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Somerset Co-operative Services CIC: September 2014

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Thursday, 18 September 2014. Our Newsletter for June 2014. You'll find below our June Newsletter, with information about a number of forthcoming events. In particular, please do come along to our Co-operative Business Lunch (and our AGM beforehand) on July 2nd in Taunton. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Visit our shop at 10 East Reach Taunton. Save money with a co-operative utility provider. Cheaper broadband and fairer tariffs from. Phone: 0300 456 2265. Our Newsletter for June 2014.

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Somerset Co-operative Services CIC: Coming up in Somerset...

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Friday, 26 June 2015. Coming up in Somerset. All this and much more is available in our latest newsletter - click to download! We have more news about co-operatives making creative use of Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme; training for Directors of social enterprises; and how Tinkers Bubble is securing their site for the future. Visit our shop at 10 East Reach Taunton. Save money with a co-operative utility provider. Cheaper broadband and fairer tariffs from. Phone: 0300 456 2265. Coming up in Somerset.

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Somerset Co-operative Services CIC: October 2014

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Friday, 10 October 2014. What's happening at Citizen Finance 2014. Come to Taunton on the 23rd October for. The Co-operatives SW AGM. An in-depth exploration of the relationship between investors and recipients led by French workers co-op Oxalys. Case studies of Citizen Finance in action. Community shares best practice seminar. Launch of 'Raising Together': the report from the FEED project. Networking and mutual aid with co-ops and social enterprises from across the SW. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Somerset Co-operative Services CIC: January 2015

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Friday, 30 January 2015. Do the FCA's new guidelines threaten community co-ops? Guardian columnist George Monbiot has kicked off a small storm with claims that the new FCA guidelines for mutual societies, following on from the recent Co-op and Community Benefit Societies Act, has sabotaged the growth of the community energy sector. Is it true? Our submission to the FCA. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Visit our shop at 10 East Reach Taunton. Save money with a co-operative utility provider.

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Somerset Co-operative Services CIC: Current projects

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What we're working on right now. Delivering advanced consultancy for share issues through South West Co-op Support. If you are a social enterprise seeking to scale up your activities with the aid of new investment, this new Lottery funded scheme will cut the cost of specialist aid. We're using the latest community development tools to help people discover co-operative solutions to their problems. Find out how we could ignite the potential in your neighbourhood. You can also visit our archive. This work i...

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Somerset Co-operative Services CIC: Intentional communities with insufficient intent

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Sunday, 15 February 2015. Intentional communities with insufficient intent. Our colleagues in Bristol enquired recently as to the results of some work we did a year or so ago with a prospective housing co-operative; we had lost contact with the group, but we knew that they had been on the brink of registering. Alas, a word with the good people of Catalyst confirmed our worst fears; nothing had come of their vision or our labour. Visit our shop at 10 East Reach Taunton. Phone: 0300 456 2265. This work is ...

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Somerset Co-operative Services CIC: May 2015

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Sunday, 24 May 2015. Ecological Land Co-op covered by the Independent. The Independent on Sunday has a great piece today. Wednesday, 20 May 2015. Visit SEM at www.socialenterprisemark.com. To find out more about how businesses benefit from using this brand, and click on 'registrations' or read this briefing. To see how Somerset Rules social accounting, stakeholder engagement and ethical business practices put co-operation at the heart of social enterprise. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Phone: 0300 456 2265.

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Somerset Co-operative Services CIC: June 2015

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Friday, 26 June 2015. Coming up in Somerset. All this and much more is available in our latest newsletter - click to download! We have more news about co-operatives making creative use of Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme; training for Directors of social enterprises; and how Tinkers Bubble is securing their site for the future. Thursday, 18 June 2015. The Co-operative Identity in the UK - a disagreement in the co-op family? Our approach has generally been more like that of the ICA: we think non-user mem...

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Somerset Co-operative Services CIC: February 2015

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Friday, 27 February 2015. Our newsletter for February 2015 - SITR yourself in a comfy chair and have a read. Yes, it's newsletter time again. In this issue we look at how Community Benefit Societies are the new co-operatives (and can be just as co-operative as the old ones); how community energy in Somerset is more energetic than ever; we say hello to the all new Social Enterprise Network; and we welcome a brace of new Somerset Rules co-operatives in the arts and events sector. Sunday, 15 February 2015.

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Somerset Co-operative Services CIC: SWCS Big Potential

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With our colleagues in South West Co-operative Support, we are approved providers for Big Potential - a fund helping social enterprises to raise the finance that they need to scale up. For more information about how your co-op could raise between £50,000 and £500,000 of repayable finance in order to take your services to a wider audience, register with Big Potential. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Visit our shop at 10 East Reach Taunton. Save money with a co-operative utility provider. Phone: 0300 456 2265.