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Featured Blog Posts – November 2009 Archive (2)

Social Enterprise Mark - A double audit fee for CICs?

Update Feb 10 2011- With the recent increase in the Social Enterprise Mark fee to £350 a year from £99, a number of members have moaned to me that we still havent made any progress on the points made in this original post.

1. What shall we do, if anything? They dont want to address our concerns and the criteria still split CICs, Co-ops and Charities..some can, some cant.

2. Is 372 members a good return for £1million of taxpayers money? Thats…

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Added by John Mulkerrin on November 24, 2009 at 19:00 — 41 Comments

CICs are Androgynous - First interesting trend from the survey

The first trends are starting to emerge from the data we're collecting via our first survey, one of the most intriguing is the lack of a gender gap within CIC. This balance in gender feeds into an interesting discussion started by Rodney Schwarz at Clearly so (link below)

If you havent already done so, please complete the online survey at CIC Baseline Mapping Questionnaire and ask all the CIC practitioners you know to, the… Continue

Added by John Mulkerrin on November 18, 2009 at 8:30 — 2 Comments