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Innovation Champ at Aldingbourne Trust

Peter Stanley, General Manager of the Aldingbourne Trust (which Social Firm wood@aldingbourne is part of) picked up the ‘Innovation Champion’ award at the business collaboration achievement awards at Brighton University last month.

The event marked the last 12 months of the Profitnet programme (a peer to peer business support programme) and acknowledged the achievements amongst the Profitnet groups in Sussex. The award criteria was based on practical application of the knowledge transfer and peer collaboration that had taken place amongst the network over the last year.

Textiles by St Anne's celebrate

Pat Bend, Sales Manager at the Birmingham based Social Firm, Textiles by St Anne's, is celebrating an order from an International curtain company which she puts down to the Future Jobs Fund. Six of the employees are financed by the government initiative and the increased workforce gave Pat the opportunity to bid for larger contracts. Pat believes the hires also bring a positive work ethic and new skills base which their service users with mental health problems can aspire to.