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SportInspired announces Community Games with BITC

Today over 12,000 business volunteers in 300 companies will donate an astonishing 96,000 hours of their personal time, volunteering to help thousands of people in communities across the UK. That time equates to over £1.5 million in cash value, and all donated in just one day. Friday 17th May is Give and Gain Day, part of Business In The Community’s year-round campaign...

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Summer Takeover: Rich Mix in Shoreditch unlocks 6 spaces for somewhereto’s young people

Summer Takeover: Rich Mix in Shoreditch unlocks 6 spaces for somewhereto's young people 3 days to apply somewhereto_ one of the Social Technology entrepreneurs involved in our Nexters programme, have unlocked an incredible opportunity for 16-25 years olds to take over Rich Mix in Shoreditch this summer. Please read and share the below post from somewhereto_ for more details. Amazing space unlocked by somewhereto_ Rich...

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Britain’s Personal Best

London - The Society Network Foundation is delighted to announce that today we have been awarded  £1,000,000 by the Big Lottery Fund to run Britain’s Personal Best, a new annual mass participation event that promotes in a unique new way personal accomplishment, group interaction, volunteering and charitable fund raising. Supported by a wide range of partners including Groundwork UK, the Institute...

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Funding and investment opportunities

From: Yorkshire Bank - “Spirit of the Community Awards” Yorkshire Bank has a strong tradition of supporting the communities in which we live and work. The Foundation provides funds to help registered charities, not-for-profit organisations, community and other voluntary organisations make life safer, healthier and better for all of us. Following a recent review the Foundation Trustees are now pleased to launch a...

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Nexters Blog: ‘Doing Things Differently’ How we’re turning employment upside-down

Over the next couple of weeks we will be posting blogs from social technology entrepreneurs from our Nexters programme to coincide with the upcoming Nexters events focusing on ‘doing things differently’ Out first blog post is from Rajeeb Dey, CEO of Enternships. Rajeeb will be speaking at the upcoming Nexters event at Google Campus. The event will focus on the future...

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