Launch of Devon School for Social Entrepreneurs
Office of the Third Sector Director General, Rolande Anderson, attended the launch of the new Devon School for Social Entrepreneurs on 12 January 2010. The School for Social Entrepreneurs runs action learning programmes for enterprising people who work in deprived communities and who want to get an innovative, socially minded project off the ground but don’t know where to start. This is not a traditional learning course with lectures and essays and exams: the students bring their project to the school and over the course of a year work through it until it can be feasibly put into practice; hence why it’s called action learning.
Devon SSE is based at the Dartington Hall Trust, a charitable company based near Totnes in South Devon. The aims of the Trust are realised through a number of arts programmes; by research, reflection and teaching on environmental and economic sustainability; by social research and policy development on the protection of children; and by farming, forestry, conservation and retail enterprises. SSE has expanded its franchise model over the course of this year with additional funding from the Office of the Third Sector of £500,000 – all part of the Government’s commitment to combat the current economic climate through investing in enterprises that will benefit those communities most affected by the effects of the recession.
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