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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. It is a membership organisation. In 2011, more than seven thousand social enterprises were members of Social Enterprise UK.
The first social enterprise agency in the UK, Social Enterprise London was established in 1998 [1] after collaboration between co-operative businesses (Poptel, Computercraft Ltd, Calverts Press, Artzone), a number of co-operative development agencies (CDAs), and infrastructure bodies supporting co-operative enterprise development (Co-operative Training London, Co-operative Party, London ICOM ...
A social enterprises can be structured as a business, a partnership for profit or non-profit, and may take the form (depending on in which country the entity exists and the legal forms available) of a co-operative, mutual organisation, a disregarded entity (a form of business classification for income tax purposes in the United States), [5] a social business, a benefit corporation, a community ...
The social enterprise is expanding its operations by launching in London on February 6 in partnership with WeWork – which has had I Love Coffee-trained baristas based at all three of its ...
In 2017 he was appointed to be the chair of Social Enterprise UK, an umbrella body for social enterprises in the UK. [11] In February 2020 he introduced a Commission on Social Investment to record experiences of how the social investment market worked with social enterprises and then produce recommendations for any changes or improvements. [12]
Paget launched the UK's first compostable plastic bottle [3] in 2006. [4] In 2007 Belu was officially launched as an environmental social enterprise. Paget appointed Karen Lynch, previously Barclays Branch Marketing Manager, as a new MD in 2010. Karen Lynch secured a national network of customers, making Belu a respected name in the hospitality ...
The Bill's original title was the Public Services (Social Enterprise and Social Value) Bill. [3] It was presented to the House of Commons in 2010 by Chris White MP, the Member of Parliament for Warwick and Leamington as a Private Members' Bill. It received Royal Assent in March 2012.
The community interest company emerged from many sources, often citing the absence in the UK of a company form for not-for-profit social enterprises similar to those in other countries. A first significant proposal for a new company form in the UK was advanced in 2001 in "The case for the Public Interest Company", [ 5 ] by Paul Corrigan, Jane ...