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Participate in 'Visit our Schools and Colleges week', 18th - 22nd October
‘Visit Our Schools’ is a national campaign involving senior decision makers from the private, public and third sectors visiting schools and colleges throughout the country to discuss how they can work together to help young people reach their potential.

Social Change Awards - Have you completed your nomination?
Deadline for nominating yourself or your organisation, Friday 10th September.

NPC paper: 'Proving your worth to Whitehall'
The paper launched by CAN Mezzanine customers, New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), proves that charities can be successful in answering the questions from government departments in the face of the Spending Review.

Social Vision: 'Business at its Best' - photography competition
Finding the images that best capture the work of social enterprise - 2 overall winning prizes of £750 each.
Deadline for entries: Friday 1st October 2010 at 5pm
Regional Finalists announced on Social Enterprise Day - Thursday 18th November 2010

URGENT: Donation Appeal for BRAC Pakistan’s Flood Relief &
CAN Mezzanine customers, BRAC, are asking you to please donate generously to their Pakistan emergency flood relief work. This includes distribution of food rations and oral saline packs and emergency health care for up to 4,000 families.

UnLtd Level 2 Awards - open from August 30th until September 24th
The Award, aimed at exceptional social entrepreneurs who have been running their venture for over 1 year and have clear evidence of proven social impact and financial growth, consists of a £15,000 cash award to pay for the winners living expenses and dedicated business support for 12 months.

Wanted: Your views on a National Skills Strategy for the Voluntary Sector
Your views on a National Skills Strategy for the Voluntary Sector are needed as the government has pledged support to voluntary sector organisations in delivering the Big Society.
This consultation includes a number of regional roundtables or submit your views online.

'This is European Social Innovation' Showcase
Are you leading a large scale, socially innovative initiative in Europe? We want to hear from you!
Euclid Network is looking to identify 10 large-scale successful examples of socially innovative initiatives, with the aim of raising the profile of social innovation across Europe.

GSK IMPACT Awards - open for submissions for £35,000 award
The GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards are open for the 13th year - Deadline for applications for the 2011 awards is 5pm on Friday 24 September 2010.

Microsoft Startups: Academy finalists and grant winners announced
12 young Brits -shortlisted for the 2010 Life Academy Awards - presented their philanthropic ideas to Professor Winston, Countdown mathematician Rachel Riley and Last Minute.com founder Brent Hoberman, in a ‘dragon’s den style’ pitching process with 3 eventual winners taking home grants worth £10k each.

NCVO: Improving sector access to capital and investment - First consultation
The first of a series of papers for consultation from the Funding Commission, (managed by NCVO) sets out its findings and emerging recommendations on giving organisations better access to capital and help them build capacity.

Toucan Employment - working with adults with learning difficulties in the local community
With 21 years experience operating in the London borough of Southwark, Toucan Employment now extends to the boroughs of Lambeth and Brent.

Conservative party SME survey
The Conservative party has launched an online survey to get the views of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

The Tool Factory - Social Enterprise version of Business Plan Writer
Business Plan Writer has been designed to help social enterprises and third sector organisations with writing their business plans and save them time and money in the process.

Social enterprise governance needs highlighted in new report
Good governance is essential for social enterprises to thrive and be sustainable, according to new research from the Governance Hub and the Social Enterprise Coalition.

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