New grant funding for iSE
We are pleased to announce that we are one of eight community organisations chosen to share £400,000 to help improve communities in disadvantaged areas of the West Midlands. The money has come from the Commonwealth Games legacy pot and issued by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).
We plan to use the funding to co-develop investment in the local social economy by establishing a Digbeth social economy cluster. Further information will be announced soon.
We were honoured to receive an invitation to meet the US Ambassador Jane Hartley during their visit to Digbeth last week, as part of their tour of Birmingham and the West Midlands.
Laura Shoaf (CBE and CEO of WMCA), Andy Steet (Mayor of West Midlands) and iSE staff, including Midhat Riaz (Acting CEO), Drew Currie (Board Member), Cathy Brown (Programme Director), and Jane de Weijer (Business Advisor) were in attendance.
After the press call, a meet and greet was held at Kilo Ziro Bar, where the US Ambassador had the opportunity to meet local social enterprises Citizen Coaching (Martin Hogg CEO), Better Pathways (Sue Roberts CEO), and KiloZiro/Clean Kilo founders Jeanette and Tom Pell. They also learned about iSE’s upcoming work.