Social Enterprise UK (previously known as The Social Enterprise Coalition) is a community interest company founded in April 2002 in the United Kingdom. It functions as the national membership and campaigning body for the social enterprise movement in Britain.[1]
Organisation
Social Enterprise UK liaises with similar groups in each region of England, as well as in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is a membership organisation. In 2011, more than seven thousand social enterprises were members of Social Enterprise UK. Social enterprises sometimes deliver public services.[2]
History
The Social Enterprise Coalition was founded in April 2002 as a community interest company.
In 2007, Claire Dove took over the role of chair from Glenys Thornton, she runs the social enterprise Blackburne House in Liverpool.[3]
Between 2007 and 2010, the organisation ran a social enterprise ambassador scheme. It spent £860,000 on the project.[4] The Office of the Third Sector support the ambassador scheme.[5]
Since January 2010, Social Enterprise UK's chief executive has been Peter Holbrook. Previously he had worked at the social enterprise Sunlight Development Trust, based in Gillingham, Kent.[6][7]
UK Social Enterprise Awards
Social Enterprise UK deliver the UK Social Enterprise Awards in cooperation with Cwmpas, Social Enterprise Northern Ireland and Social Enterprise Scotland.[14]
Publications
- No More Business as Usual: A Social Enterprise Manifesto, published February 2010, aiming to raise the profile of social enterprises in advance of the general election taking place that year.[15] The manifesto aimed to increase the contribution of social enterprises threefold between 2010 and 2020, building on its £24bn per year economic impact in 2010.[16]
- Fightback Britain: A report on the state of social enterprise survey (2011)
- SEUK: The People's Business A report on the state of social enterprise survey (2013)
- Leading the World in Social Enterprise - State of Social Enterprise Report 2015
External links
References
- Social Enterprise UK Socialenterprise.org.uk, retrieved 24 May 2013^
- Ceri Jones. Why Social Enterprise? SEUK, retrieved 12 November 2017^
- Claire Dove OBE DL^