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Build a social media strategy for your business – here’s some advice from marketing specialists Quba

DCMS Moneymap

Over 90% of music businesses are Small and Medium
Enterprises and they often face distinct problems which can hinder their ability to grow. This ‘money map’ lists funding schemes that might be open to those businesses. It also includes information for a wide range of individuals and smaller organisations involved in music projects. For more information on arts funding in general you should look at DCMS’s Guide to Arts Funding in England which is available from DCMS’s website:
http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/arts/3208.aspx

Working freelance with young people? Here’s a useful guide…

Solo practitioner code of practice for working with young people

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Culture.info – share your creative world!

Culture.Info is your free independent starting point to share or find international information – from practical help for collaborative projects to knowledge of policy developments.

Jargon Buster

No matter how media savvy you think you are, this new resource book from Social by Social is a must have by your bed…!

Creative Clusters - News & Commentary from around the world: The Creative Economy

NESTA’s Creative Enterprise Toolkit

Starting a business with no experience can be daunting. That’s why we’ve developed the Enterprise Toolkit to help creative individuals take their bright ideas and turn them into successful businesses.

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Check out UnLtd: UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs – people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. We do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality. Here’s their website

Architecture for Humanity – inspiration!

Looking for money – here’s some opportunities from Flying Start

Green Up!

provides community groups with everything they need to work productively with their councils on environment and sustainability issues.

Innovation Exchange, the innovation broker for the third sector, has published ‘Growing innovation from the third sector’ describing projects it is supporting in the areas of support for excluded young people and independent living. They range from start-up social enterprises to household name charities. Download (pdf, 1.14MB) via http://innovation-exchange.org/blog/next-practice-programme/. (Source: Bubb’s Blog)

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Social Entrepreneurs blogs
A UK-focused top ten list of social enterprise blogs from School of Social Entrepreneurs blog. (That item will have got the newsletter blocked by some email filters!)

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Design Council- fab! see their

website

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You can’t see it but it’s there – a whole new concept in learning.

Shibuya University

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updated July 5th 2010