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The Tool Factory have just launched the first in a series of free e-books aimed at helping social entrepreneurs and voluntary organisations as they write their business plan.

Secretary of State for Health Patricia Hewitt has outlined her vision of the role of social enterprise in the provision of health and social care services.

In a pamphlet published by the Social Enterprise Coalition (SEC), Ms Hewitt says that ‘unleashing the potential of new providers in the third sector and social enterprises' can ‘help us meet the extraordinary challenges and safeguard the founding values of the NHS for another generation'.

She says the role social enterprises could play in the NHS is an ‘under-explored issue'.

More social enterprise news can be found on the Social Enterprise Magazine website located at: http://www.socialenterprisemag.co.uk/

From January 1st 2007 individuals and groups in the Bexhill and Hastings area will be able to call upon the services of Clive Mills, the new social enterprised development officer who will be based in the offices of the Bexhill Community Partnership in Bexhill and Hastings Trust in Hastings.

The two-year post is funded under the governement's LEGI programme and is aimed at helping stimulate a culture of enterprise in communities in the Hastings and Bexhill area.

Clive can be contacted at 01424 217259 for more information

ESSEN has been successful in  securing fundingfor a person to provide advice and information to individuals and groups in rural East Sussex, Eastbourne and Lewes.

The East Sussex Economic Partnership has agreed to fund the work to support emerging social enterprises as it recognises the potential value that social enterprise can bring to the economic development table

For more information about social enterprise in rural East Sussex, Eastbourne and Lewes contact Barbara Beaton on 01424 775572