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		<title>Social investment: Not just for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all love new things—especially if they seem to offer something for nothing. Social investment sounds like it might be that shiny new toy we have all been dreaming of. It is a new source of funding at a time when other sources have become extremely tight.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Social currency&#8217; website (Blue Dot) launched</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/11/social-currency-website-launched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A website that rewards users with a ‘social currency’ for sharing, volunteering or donating to charity launched earlier this week. People can sign into the Blue Dot website using their Facebook account and then earn dots through activity on social networks such as ‘liking’ a charity and sharing on Twitter. The dots can then be used to gain access to exclusive offerings from celebrities and online content.]]></description>
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		<title>Trafalgar &amp; Sampson House regeneration proposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamic Relief Worldwide (IR) is an international relief and development organisation working to alleviate the poverty of the world’s poorest people. IR has developed substantial humanitarian experience and an international network to serve the needy.]]></description>
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		<title>Last Min Bookings: Fourth Wall Theatre Network launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birmingham's newest social venture - The Fourth Wall Theatre Network - is celebrating it's birth. And you're invited! The Fourth Wall Theatre Network Launch Event is happening on Thursday 17th November between 19:00-21:00 at the Custard Factory's Theatre.]]></description>
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		<title>Charity shops spared extra accounting regulation</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/11/charity-shops-spared-extra-accounting-regulation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Accounting Standards Board has abandoned plans to require charity shops to value their stock at the point it is received. The ASB is currently drawing up an accounting standard for all organisations that provide public benefit, including charities, universities and housing associations, as part of wider reforms of accounting standards.]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham BME start-up Nominated for the Shell Livewire award during Black History Month</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/10/birmingham-bme-start-up-nominated-for-the-shell-livewire-award-during-black-history-month/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/10/birmingham-bme-start-up-nominated-for-the-shell-livewire-award-during-black-history-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two young entrepreneurs from the African Diaspora have been nominated for 1 of 5 Shell Livewire £1,000 Business awards in October 2011. Their idea is Sola Line, a renewable energy start up business, who’s focus is to bring access to renewable energy technologies in African rural communities, facilitate knowledge transfer and build capacity providing local employment.]]></description>
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		<title>New enterprise: Cash for Clothes</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/09/new-enterprise-cash-for-clothes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cash for Clothes pays for your unwanted clothing and now mobile phones too and donate part of their profits to local charities. Can arrange bulk collections from schools, churches, care homes etc.]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking up change in the Change Kitchen</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/08/cooking-up-change-in-the-change-kitchen-2/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/08/cooking-up-change-in-the-change-kitchen-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ChangeKitchen launched its new investment guide at the Social Enterprise Coalition’s Voice11 event at the 02 Arena on 30th March 2011. The guide shows potential investors the benefits and impact of investing in an ethical social business.]]></description>
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		<title>Social enterprises &#8216;growing at twice speed of other businesses&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/06/social-enterprises-growing-at-twice-speed-of-other-businesses/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/06/social-enterprises-growing-at-twice-speed-of-other-businesses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chair of Social Enterprise Coalition tells MPs there has been an explosion in their number. The number of social enterprises in the UK is growing at almost twice the rate of other types of business, according to Claire Dove, chair of the Social Enterprise Coalition.]]></description>
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		<title>Freshwinds announces the launch of new IT services and Well-being Centre</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/04/freshwinds-announces-the-launch-of-new-services/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/04/freshwinds-announces-the-launch-of-new-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CN4B Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These social enterprises all carry the ethos, ethics, spirit and holistic approach of Freshwinds. They will generate income that will be used to support our clients in the greatest need where there is currently no provision.]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking up change in the Change Kitchen</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/04/cooking-up-change-in-the-change-kitchen/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/04/cooking-up-change-in-the-change-kitchen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ChangeKitchen launched its new investment guide at the Social Enterprise Coalition’s Voice11 event at the 02 Arena on 30th March 2011. The guide shows potential investors the benefits and impact of investing in an ethical social business.]]></description>
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		<title>Pride of Place: Brum&#8217;s first community market makes the news..</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2010/08/pride-of-place-birminghams-first-community-market-makes-the-news/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2010/08/pride-of-place-birminghams-first-community-market-makes-the-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The playwright and Archers' scriptwriter Tim Stimpson is queuing for a wood-fired pizza in the car park of the Stirchley United Working Men's Club. It's not a particularly salubrious setting for Birmingham's first community market.]]></description>
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		<title>Brum social enterprises urged to support each other</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2010/07/enterprise-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new campaign has launched to help social enterprises and community trading organisations buy goods and services from each other. Shop for Change is the brainchild of the Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs (ISE) and aims to keep the third sector in Birmingham flourishing at a time of public spending cuts.]]></description>
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		<title>Appeal for ideas with ‘business head and social heart’</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2010/06/appeal-for-ideas-with-business-head-and-social-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2010/06/appeal-for-ideas-with-business-head-and-social-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The makers of Guinness are behind a UK-wide social entrepreneurship programme inviting people aged between 25 and 35 to enter the Bring It To Life Awards, which offer support, skills, and funding to create positive social ventures.]]></description>
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