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Edridge Fund gallery and news pages added to draft web site.

The developing Edridge Fund web site now has both a service gallery function and a page that supplies continuously updated news feeds from a variety of charity and public sector resources.

You can also find our how rss works by using the new accessibility page – read more here.

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Governance News – ACEVO, the organisation for Third Sector leaders are holding a regional conference in Leeds during September 2010.

The theme of the conference is Stronger Together – Working Effectively and Tackling New Challenges in Partnership.

Bursary places are available for only £20. You can see full details of the conference and how to book here.

You can find the ACEVO home page with details of more events and resources here.

(ACEVO have recently launched their CutsWatch web site – an interesting place for the charitable sector to keep abreast of current changes and their implications…read more).

Other charity news – The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is funding, in concert with CAN, the development a set of rules for a Social Stock Exchange.

This new regulated exchange is designed for companies, of any size, that are providing goods and services explicitly for social purposes.

The objective is to help these socially-minded companies – essentially market-led business that prioritise social mission rather than just profits – to raise equity and gain access to capital in order to fulfil their social goals…

A great way for the voluntary sector to make in-roads into establishing more social businesses, that not only generate social capital but operate well within ethical boundaries too.

We look forward to seeing the final research results and the recommendations that emerge.

You can see the Gulbenkian Foundation press release and relevant web links here.

Congratulations to our 50/50 Club winners this month.

J Jones of Llantrisant

H Howard of Cardiff

J Bloggs of Newcastle

If you would like to join the Edridge 50/50 Club, then visit our club web page, download the form and send your subscription to us.

Your support for our work is very much valued.

Thanks from The Edridge Team

Welcome to The Edridge Fund news blog.

Here we will post news and updates about our Trust activities, notices of upcoming events and meetings and just things we think you would like to know about.

As with our main website here, you can translate our news and information into many languages too.

You can use the rss feed button on the top left of our blog to automatically subscribe to our news. You can find how rss feeds work by visiting the syndication information pages on Wikipedia.

You can download the free web browser Opera too - it’s free and is a really simple way to add news to you browser and read it when you want.