Jay Sawvell hyping up Utah so that his own coaching job looks marginally less bad, I respect it

difficult situation given the timing of transfers and squad makeup - hopefully the SFA have some sympathy for how many plates it sounds like the club had to spin on the day

Good afternoon, DCI Satterthwaite fans...the next book is now available for preorder! Publishing 4 November.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FVXSXCV1

🌹 This year at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, we, along with @access-si.bsky.social and @pathwayfund.bsky.social, are hosting a Mission-Driven Business Reception at the Royal Albert Dock on Tuesday 30 September, 4–6pm.

Former nightclub in Mansfield reopens as supported living homes The old Urban Cherry nightclub building is converted into eight supported apartments.

Thanks to BBC Nottinghamshire for the coverage today - read more here: bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#CommunityHousing #LearningDisabilities #InclusiveLiving #SocialImpact

@unitedresponse.bsky.social

The social care system in the UK is broken. But, can social investment fix it?

In this blog, we'll cover the state of the sector, examples of how repayable finance has been used to provide essential services to a struggling system, what's next and more!

🔗 Read here >> buff.ly/8OtLuxG

#charity

This was great, particularly the point that we're spending almost as much putting sticking plasters on existing lines as it should cost to build transformative, new infrastructure in the North

Want to know what’s going right in Britain? Come to the capital, look at the Elizabeth line railway | Jonn Elledge It’s a ‘can-do’ object lesson for the Treasury. And imagine what such ambition could do for the fortunes of Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds, says author Jonn Elledge

Want to know what’s going right in Britain? Come to the capital, look at the Elizabeth line railway | Jonn Elledge

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

‘It’s very personal to me’: Darren Jones on his £500m plan to fight child poverty Treasury chief secretary says he wants to emulate New Labour support for community groups that changed his life

Our up to £1bn Better Futures Fund will help tackle the structural causes of poverty.

Bringing together public funds with social impact investments, it will open up opportunities for training and work across the country.

My interview with the @theguardian.com 👇

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

@conororr.bsky.social just a message that I'm a UK fan, and you were so right about both international games and jersey number retirements on HTC over the last week

Big update from BSC! £1bn committed towards addressing the most entrenched social problems in the UK

Great to have reached such an incredible milestone! Over £1 billion invested in UK charities and social enterprises👏 Here's to continuing to drive positive change 🌟

🔎 In her latest blog, Investment Director Amelie Montague explores how Government can support children in care through social investment, highlighting how blended finance models can combine Government grants with repayable finance to help children in need.

To learn more ➡️ bit.ly/3QRpKhK

Viewpoint: Unlocking LGPS capital - a new era for local impact investment | Impact Investor As the UK government moves forward with reforms in the local government pensions sector, Anna Shiel, chief investment officer at Better Society Capital, explores the challenges and opportunities of le...

How can LGPS pools unlock local economic growth and social progress through impact investment?

📖 Read our CIO Anna Shiel's piece on the opportunity place-based impact investing presents to drive greater economic and social progress while maintaining risk-adjusted returns.

bit.ly/4i7FlFE

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We look forward to continuing to work alongside social investment partners, empowering enterprises and charities that are improving the lives of people across the UK.

Read the full report here: bettersocietycapital.com/impact-repor...

Group of volunteers outside a closed pub.

In the 190 community pubs known to @plunkettuk.bsky.social, over 41,000 people have become shareholders, raising over £38 million between them through #CommunityShares.

@andrewdubock.bsky.social explores the vital role of volunteers in community projects ▶️

www.goodfinance.org.uk/latest/post/...

Man United's men playing away in London on a Sunday night, at the same time as Man United's women play a home game, both on TV, is maybe the stupidest bit of TV scheduling I've ever seen

Thought this was really good - ask young liberals not to buy cocaine because of their social conscience, on a journey towards it no longer becoming a moral quandary in the future

Britain should stop pretending it wants more economic growth Almost everyone in politics has something they prioritise over it

Some wonderful feline asides in this from Janan Ganesh, which I think is basically right.

🌟 Great to be in Parliament today, hosting a meet and greet event for MPs and social enterprises in partnership with @access-si.bsky.social and @pathwayfund.bsky.social.

A big thank you to all those who connected with us today!

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Everything you need to know about the fair catch kick, football's vestigial tailbone Thursday night, the Chargers made history by converting on a play that hadn't been successful in FORTY SIX YEARS

Last night, my football dreams came true. A play I’ve yelling about online for about a decade happened in an actual NFL game—the first fair catch kick since 1978.

Here’s everything there is to know about this impossibly rare play, the NFL’s vestigial tailbone: open.substack.com/pub/rodgersh...

Ten months ago Gary O'Neil let me see us beat Albion and then Chelsea away in an eight day span - that I will appreciate for a long time

No pleasure (obviously) in GON's demise but anyone in the away end would have got more out of the players tonight - shouldn't have survived Palace and am sure he won't survive this, good luck to whoever is next #Wolves

Indiana's should absolutely be #GoogleUs

Mortgage against his future fee to give Semedo one as well 🙏

Fair play to UEFA for making Aston Villa hosting Juventus something that I’m not only not jealous of but have also barely noticed

@footballcliches.bsky.social surely Maddison scoring on his birthday is not him 'receiving a present' (per Match of the Day) - it has to be 'what a way to celebrate/mark the occasion'?

Happy #SocialEnterpriseDay!

Did you know💡

📈There are 131,000 social enterprises across the country, representing almost 1 in 42 of all UK businesses.

💰£1b in profits has been re-invested to drive social change in the last year

🤝Social enterprises employ 2.3 million people in the UK!

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