How can LARCH support you? 🤝 We're planning our calendar of events for 2024 and welcome your thoughts on any specific workshops you'd find useful. Our recent Autumn events provided a valuable, informative, vibrant space for local social entrepreneurs. Email [email protected]

Local social enterprise Community Campus '87 is one of 9 North East case studies featured in the Good Finance searchable library. Read how they used social investment to purchase empty properties to rent out to their client group 👇 goodfinance.org.uk/case-studies/c… #socialinvestment

Wrapping up the year with our final Learning Lunch at The Redcar Palace Discussing the varied journey our clients have been on and what's needed in 2024. With mince pies on hand of course! #LocalAccess Arseniy

A huge thank you to all our partners for making 2023 so successful. Wishing all our supporters season's greetings and looking forward to a peaceful and prosperous 2024 💚✨ We'll be closed from this Friday 22nd, back on 2nd January x

Have you scrapped your New Year's resolutions yet? Then how about picking up these instead? 💡 Our friends at Proper Good Bolton came up this list, great for anyone involved with a #socialenterprise 🌟 Look out for our 2024 events for upskilling and networking opportunities!

Amazing work by LilyAnne's Wellbeing in #Hartlepool 👏

What can you use our funding for? 🤔 Lots of things! This list is just some of what our Enterprise Development funding has been used for. Did you know you can use it to backfill posts & pay for staff too? Talk to us about your idea [email protected] #socialenterprise

We're taking part in Hartlepool Enterprise Week! 🎫 Exploring Social Enterprise 📅 Thurs 25 Jan 12pm-1pm 🗺️ The BIS, Hartlepool Come see us with HartlePower & learn what it means to be a social enterprise. Hear from a founder on her experiences of setting one up. Link 👇

📢The Redcar & Cleveland Business Surgery 2024 is here! Join us at Redcar & Cleveland College on Wednesday 28 February & book 1:1 appointments with a range of business support providers. ✅Accelerating growth ✅Starting a business ✅Specialist support Register here⤵️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/redcar-cleve…

Have you considered setting up an eBay shop to support your social mission? 🛒 Our friends at Social Enterprise UK are running a free intro webinar on joining the #eBayforChange programme. Learn how to set up and grow your eBay marketplace. Sign up ➡️ bit.ly/3uhX7mr

📢 Tees Valley #SupplyChain has launched! Fully-funded support will help businesses diversify, grow and so successfully bid for the emerging supply chain opportunities across the region. Sign up: teesvalley-ca.gov.uk/business/suppl… #UKSPF RTC North

FREE TRAINING: 📌 Introduction to Applying for Funding 📅 14 March 9.30am-12.30pm 🗺️ HartlePower Greenbank & Hub, Join us to get tips & help based on years of experience in fundraising and communicating with funders, for social entrepreneurs. Email [email protected]

Invitation to tender: LARCH Governance and Operational Review LARCH seeks an independent consultant/organisation to complete a Governance and Operational Review for our programme. Email [email protected] for more information on the Tender Brief.

Community organisations in rural areas of Redcar & Cleveland can now apply for funding through the Rural England Prosperity Fund 💷 Capital grants are available for local arts, cultural, heritage & creative activities 🎭🎨 More: orlo.uk/rjtMB #UKSPF Business Redcar | Cleveland

HARTLEPOOL CREATIVE BUSINESS WEEK What does it mean to be a creative social enterprise? This free, drop-in event is an opportunity to chat one-to-one with advisers from Hartlepower about your creative business or business idea. Thursday 23rd May, 1pm - 3pm @ The BIS

HARTLEPOOL CREATIVE BUSINESS WEEK STARTS NEXT WEEK! Monday 20th May - Friday 24th May 2024, join us at The BIS for a week of informative sessions catered towards creative businesses. For the full schedule, follow this link: investinhartlepool.co.uk/app/uploads/20…

LARCH interviewed Ian Cawley, Manager of The Big League CIC, which runs the Poolie Time Exchange, supporting local business owners from Bovis House in #Hartlepool. Read his journey on how he became a social entrepreneur on our website. larch-ne.org/my-journey-ian…

Last day today as 'LARCH Programme Manager' VONNE Thanks to Access and Key Fund Investments for supporting and funding the Local Access Programme. Enabling 'LARCH' to unlock enterprise behaviour in Social Enterprises and Charities in Redcar & Cleveland and Hartlepool.