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 MakeBelieve Arts has just recieve the Social Enterpise Mark and will shortly be displaying this with pride on our website. The Mark was important to me because as one of an under represented sectors within the Social Enterprise Field I am keen to spread the word about Social Enterprise within the Arts Community. Many new companies within the arts set up with the one true goal of gaining Arts Council core funding and becoming what we refer to as an RFO or a Regionally Funded Organisation. ...

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Having a mentor for the last few years has been like having a oak tree to sit under, resting my back against its trunk, taking time out of life to reflect, protected by the shade of the branches. A good mentoring relationship is a place where all the worries and fears that i have about the decision I have taken or the ones I am yet to take can be brought out into the open. A place where I can be vunerable and a place where&nbs...

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Early this year I decided to set up a new Community Interest Company to act as a sister company to MakeBelieve Arts. My initial idea for this grew from the connections I have been lucky enough to have made during the Social Enterprise Ambassador programme. I wanted to see if it was possible to generate money through another company that could fund some of the activities of MakeBelieve Arts. I also wanted to develop a series of progression routes for people in the arts wh...

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Social Enterprise Day was incredible and contained a series of memories that will stay with me for a long time. By the time I climbed tiredly into my bed at the end of the night it felt like I must have consumed some of Harry Potters Lucky Elixir, or that the gods were really smiling on me on that day. Firstly the launch of One Big Idea at St Matthew Academy in Lewisham was amazing. The children and young people came up with brilliant ideas for products that could be p...

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