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 North East Mental Health Consortium
Economic Partnerships are currently assisting in the mapping of the North East's independent mental health sector. 

For background information on the project please click here

 For an electronic version of the questionnaire please click here 

As part of this process an event called 'Time To Act'  is being held on 3 June 2004.  This event is targeted at chief executives, chairs/management committee members, and people that occupy senior management positions within the vol-com mental health sector. 

To find out more about the 'Time To Act' event, please click here

To book a place @ the 'Time To Act' Event please click here




SEP Members & Projects

For Guidance on making claims, and using and downloading claim forms please go to the 'documents and reports' section of this web-site

To download the SEP Project Overview document, please click here

A representative voice for social enterprise in the North East

The North East Social Enterprise Partnership, co-ordinated by Economic Partnerships, is holding a series of four seminars to consult on the setting up of a representative structure for social enterprises. One event has been held in Tees Valley, details of the remaining are as follows: 

Northumberland – Thursday 10 July, Blyth Community Enterprise Centre. For more information click here.

Durham – Wednesday 16 July, Durham University

click here.

Tyne & Wear – Thursday 17 July, Bangladeshi Centre, Sunderland

click here.

You will need Adobe Acrobat, available free from www.adobe.com, to view these documents.

Training in social firm management

We will soon be running our Social Firm Development Training Programme in the North East and Eastern Region. If you are interested please contact  pauline.entriken@economicpartnerships.com or click here to go to our training website.

We are also looking for qualified assessors throughout the UK.

If you have experience in business planning and development, especially in a social enterprise context, and a TDLB qualification such as a D32, please contact our Centre Administrator at:

pauline.entriken@economicpartnerships.com

Examples of Current Work

Social firm development programme for Northumberland – Summer 2002 Spectrum newsletter explains the programme and work that is currently being done to develop businesses led by users and workers.  For further details click here.

We are providing support to re-invigorate the rural economy of Northumberland through co-operation funded by the DTI . For further details  click here.

The North East Social Enterprise Partnership has been set up to support the development of social enterprises and act as a regional voice. It has received three years funding from ESF and ONE North East. It is being being co-ordinated by Economic Partnerships.
Their first bulletin is available   click here.

For a copy of the Social Enterprise Regional Action Plan produced by NESEP and written by Economic Partnerships click here.


 
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