REALiSE

REALiSE - Birmingham & Solihull’s biggest commitment yet to social enterprise growth

REALiSE is THE support programme, improving the capacity and capability of social enterprises, to deliver more front line services - better.

As part of the programme, micro-clusters of social enterprises have been created in five key areas:

• Employment & Training
• Health & Social Care
• Environment & Sustainability
• Business support
• Education, Culture & Sport

The members of these clusters are working together to improve their local economies, develop inter-trading agreements, develop arrangements that will help them bid more effectively for procurement contracts, and support and promote social and economic renewal in the community.

Latest news

New REALiSE reports now available

As the REALiSE Programme nears completion, two new reports have been published to help share information about the programme's achievements and experiences:

Lessons from the REALiSE Programme: real life experience of developing social enterprise 'clusters'
The report gives a short summary of the key lessons of the REALiSE Programme and will be of interest to a wide audiencebut is essential reading forsocial enterprises,policy-makers, regeneration bodies and anyone working in the social enterprise support field.
Click here to download a PDF version of the report

Evaluation of REALiSE - final report
A full and detailed evaluation of the REALiSE Programme
Click here to download a PDF version of the report