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Goodbye Nicola! A ‘few’ words on three years spent developing a start-up social enterprise

Our Business Development Officer, Nicola Donnelly, leaves us this week after three years at The Circle. She is moving on to a new role at Carolina...

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Come volunteer at our Community Café – 3 roles available

The Circle Café provides Living Wage employment and training for one year to looked-after young people and care leavers. We run this in partnership with Barnardo’s...

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Brightsolid announced as the first sponsor of The Circle Academy

Cloud solutions company, Brightsolid, have been announced as the first sponsor of The Circle Academy. Brightsolid will fund space for one person to complete the full...

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Solving social issues: meet the people who inspired The Circle Academy

For the past three years at The Circle, and for many years in her career before that, our Founder & CEO, Kirsty Thomson has been meeting...

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I don’t work for a start-up. Can I join The Circle Academy? – Enterprise training for staff

Leaders of organisations are increasingly looking for their staff team to be entrepreneurial. Public sector cuts are commonplace and demands on services are increasing. Having to...

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Applications now open for The Circle Academy

Are you a new founder of a business that cares about more than just the bottom line? Are you seeking a career change to 3rd sector? Are...

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Founder and CEO of The Circle enrolled in Business Accelerator Programme Scale-Up Scotland

Kirsty Thomson, Founder and CEO of local social enterprise, The Circle Dundee has recently been enrolled in the Scale-Up Scotland programme. Scale-Up Scotland is a leadership programme...

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GSK Volunteer team brightened up one of our meeting rooms

A few weeks ago we had volunteers from GSK visit our building and help us out by painting one of our training room spaces. GSK are...

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The Circle launches new initiative The Circle Academy

Local social enterprise hub, The Circle Dundee are launching a new initiative, The Circle Academy. The Circle hosted an evening reception to introduce The Circle Academy last...

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Caledonia Learning Academy

The Circle launches training programme in partnership with Caledonia Housing Association The Circle has worked with charity Caledonia Housing Association to run a training programme for...

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The Circle Café

Our Café Manager, Stephen and Café Supervisor, Caitlin were invited to attend an education and training session run by charity ‘Who Cares? Scotland’ in partnership with...

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Jennifer Gall’s take on our recent Make May Purple event

The amazing thing about working with the Stroke Association is that everyone is in the same position as me, so I feel part of a community...