Local help - social enterprise

Introduction

Social enterprises are profit-making businesses established to tackle social, economic or environmental need.

Many commercial businesses would consider themselves to have social objectives, but social enterprises are distinctive because their social and/or environmental purpose is absolutely central to what they do - their profits are reinvested to sustain and further their mission for positive change.   

As well as their social aims, they are distinguished by their participatory ownership and management structure, and by the way they reinvest profits back into the business or the community.

Social enterprises are involved in areas as diverse as energy production, recycling, youth work, leisure services, care services, food production and retail, arts, transport and horticulture.

To arrange a meeting with a business adviser or to contact our Client Contact Centre call 0845 058 6644 or alternatively you can request a call back at your convenience.

Subjects covered in this guide

• Introduction
• Social enterprises - did you know?
• Social Enterprise East Midlands (SEEM)

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