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| Project staff Claire & Emma were glad to see the bus arrive in Manchester |
If anyone would like to learn more about the government initiative Start Up Britain please visit their website at www.startupbritain.org
Wednesday 24 August 2011
Start Up Britain comes to Manchester
In a week where Mancunians are displaying their love for the city, Start Up Britain decided at the last minute to change their tour bus schedule and roll into Manchester City Centre as opposed to just the scheduled Manchester Science Park stop.
As a project that encourages students and graduates to start up businesses the NW HE Enterprise Champions welcomed the inclusion of our city centre and hope to see more activities in the future.
If anyone would like to learn more about the government initiative Start Up Britain please visit their website at www.startupbritain.org
If anyone would like to learn more about the government initiative Start Up Britain please visit their website at www.startupbritain.org
Monday 22 August 2011
Monthly Business Group - August
The Monthly Business Group for August touched on Social Enterprises and how businesses can become more ethical. Vanessa Augustus* vibrantly led the session with some extremely thought provoking questions and messages. We were taken through what a social enterprise and a social entrepreneur was and looked through local examples. We also analysed the larger firms and the social responsibility news stories we had come across.
The session proved a great way to show pre start businesses how beneficial it can be to have your ethical practices in place from the start.
*Vanessa Augustus is the Director at a Manchester based social enterprise, the Social Solutions Academy. She has worked in the Third Sector for nearly twenty years. Working at the heart of the community Vanessa is a creative social innovator trainer and coach. Vanessa self-financed the Social Solutions Academy (SSA) in September 2009. This pioneering approach to brokerage support and building partnerships across sectors has successfully supported over 350 social entrepreneurs, public sector representatives and private sector executives.
The session proved a great way to show pre start businesses how beneficial it can be to have your ethical practices in place from the start.
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| Monthly Business Group - Meets the 3rd Thursday of every month |
*Vanessa Augustus is the Director at a Manchester based social enterprise, the Social Solutions Academy. She has worked in the Third Sector for nearly twenty years. Working at the heart of the community Vanessa is a creative social innovator trainer and coach. Vanessa self-financed the Social Solutions Academy (SSA) in September 2009. This pioneering approach to brokerage support and building partnerships across sectors has successfully supported over 350 social entrepreneurs, public sector representatives and private sector executives.
Thursday 18 August 2011
MMU CfE help the Manchester Riot Clean Up!
It was a scene we didn't want to see in our working city of Manchester - the streets paved with glass, shops burnt out and goods looted during the riots on Tuesday 9th August 2011. We all watched, from the comfort of our Sofas, on the news channels as the violence spread throughout our city. This was where we spent at least 5 days a week, helping students and graduates to set up businesses. To watch as established businesses were trashed and brought tumbling down in a matter of minutes was heart breaking.
Quickly the e-mails and the text messages were exchanged as we all volunteered to join the @RiotCleanUp already organised for Manchester the following morning.
The extent of the damage could be seen from the moment we turned into Chorlton Street. The City College walls were adorned with graffiti and the small glass blocks on the front of our building had been smashed. We borrowed some brooms from Steve in House Services and set off to meet the others with their big tongs in Piccadilly Gardens.
After a pep talk from the organisers and many local councillors we set off on a tour of the damage and swept up any broken glass we found on the way. The council had done a fantastic job of clearing up over night which left us with little to do until we approached the probation office at the end of canal street. The streets were covered in glass and we joined a lone man in his mission to clean it up.
We had done all that we could and returned to our desks still wondering what the looters were going to do with just one trainer from the display they had stolen. But still we did everything that we could, even if it was just a small donation of time.
Quickly the e-mails and the text messages were exchanged as we all volunteered to join the @RiotCleanUp already organised for Manchester the following morning.
The extent of the damage could be seen from the moment we turned into Chorlton Street. The City College walls were adorned with graffiti and the small glass blocks on the front of our building had been smashed. We borrowed some brooms from Steve in House Services and set off to meet the others with their big tongs in Piccadilly Gardens.
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| Jennie & Lucy show off their riot clean up skills. Slightly dodgy photography by Laura |
We had done all that we could and returned to our desks still wondering what the looters were going to do with just one trainer from the display they had stolen. But still we did everything that we could, even if it was just a small donation of time.
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