PART 1. So this summer, I was delighted to be asked to join the…. ermm, well, not exactly a ‘board’ more an advisory committee, a group of professionals to support/drive/encourage/advocate/beg on behalf of newly formed ‘Firestarter Arts’ a social enterprise and community interest company. What! I he ...
If you’re reading this tomorrow, you will have sadly missed your chance to feed into the CIC regulator’s consultation on Dividend Caps and Performance Related Interest. Community Interest Companies (CICs) are some new structures set-up by the government in 2005. The idea was to provide a company for ...
Last week saw the Equality and Human Rights Commission launch a new £10 million grants programme to help grassroots organisations continue their work to combat equality and discrimination despite the current economic downturn. The Strategic Funding Programme, which builds on the Commission’s 2008-20 ...
Oxford English ORIGIN: originally in the sense to live among, be familiar with from Latin conversari: ‘keep company with’. Websters To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune American heritage To engage in a spoken exchange of thoughts, ideas and feelings, to talk Ours… LETS JUST CONN ...
As the economic crisis widens and swallows ever more of the world’s economy, of the first to squeal (along with the car-makers) are corporate media. Newspapers, television stations, even huge media networks like CanWest Global have been reeling under the pressure of a shrinking economy. It seems we ...
