Useful Links
Below we have provided some useful links to other web sites. To visit the site, click on the hyperlink of the web address of the site.
If you know of a web site which you think should be included on this page, please email us using our ‘Contact Us’ page with the details of the site. Remember to include the name of the site and the URL (web address).
General
- Breckon Hill [www.breckonhill.org.uk]
- Business Link [www.businesslink.org]
- Connexions [www.connexionsteesvalley.co.uk]
- Grant Finder [www.grantfinder.co.uk]
- Grant Finder [www.grantfinder.co.uk]
- Guidance Accreditation Board [www.gab.org.uk]
- Learning & Skills Council [www.lsc.gov.uk]
- Middlesbrough Council [www.middlesbrough.gov.uk]
- One North East [www.onenortheast.co.uk]
- Sure Start [www.surestart.gov.uk]
- Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit [www.teesvalley-jsu.gov.uk]
- Town Centre Company [www.mtcc-regeneration.co.uk]
Social Enterprise
- Business Link (tees Valley) [www.teesbusinesslink.co.uk]
- Provides practical help and advice for business, providing easy access to objective information and solutions.
- CAN – Co-operative Assistance Network Ltd [www.co-op-assist.co.uk]
- Workers co-operative of specialist trainers and consultants
- Cleveland Development Agency [www.youngcooperatives.org.uk]
- Supporting the development of co-operatives in the Tees Valley, runs monthly networking meetings for community and social enterprises
- Community Development Finance Association [www.cdfa.org.uk]
- Trade association for Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFI’s)
- National Nearbuyou [www.nearbuyou.co.uk]
- A website to help Social Enterprises work together and access opportunities for business
- North East Social Enterprise Partnership (NESEP) [www.nesep.co.uk]
- Development agency for north east
- Social Enterprise Coalition (SEC) [www.socialenterprise.org.uk]
- UK’s national body for Social Enterprise
- Social Enterprise Partnership [www.sepgb.co.uk]
- Implements infrastructure & system development, capacity building, research and development for social enterprises in UK.
- Social Enterprise Visit Programme [www.socialenterprisevisits.com]
- Promoting better business through shared learning and exchange of ideas and experiences, series of one day visits to successful social enterprises across the UK
- Social Firms UK [www.socialfirm.co.uk]
- National support structure for social firm development in UK
- Tees Valley Social Enterprise Partnership (TVSEP) [www.fivelamps.org]
- Contact via Graeme Oram, Chief Exec The Five Lamps Organisation (chair of TVSEP)
- The FRC Group [www.frcgroup.co.uk]
- One of the UK best known successful social enterprise, founder of Cats Pyjamas social enterprise development training courses
- Unity Trust Bank [www.unity.uk.com]
- Socially responsible organisation providing banking and membership services to trade union, charity, voluntary, credit union and membership organisations