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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. In 2011, more than seven thousand social enterprises were members of Social Enterprise UK. Social enterprises sometimes deliver public services. [3]
After extensive privatisation of the public sector during the Margaret Thatcher administration, there remain few statutory corporations in the UK. Privatisation began in the late 1970s, and notable privatisations include the Central Electricity Generating Board, British Rail, and more recently Royal Mail.
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 ...
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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 ...
31.50% of the oil producer OMV: an integrated international oil and gas company; 28.42% of Telekom Austria: fixed line, mobile, data, and Internet communications services; 52.85% of Austrian Post: postal service; 100% of ÖIAG-Bergbauholding; 100% of Finanzmarkt Beteiligungs AG (FIMBAG) Oesterreichische Nationalbank (central bank of Austria)
In the UK, the social enterprise movement is where the discussions of much of the social economy are centred, [15] with a Social Economy Alliance [16] created to support an ecosystem of social impact-focused businesses and charities. It is also a phrase used by the Labour Party [17] to describe the economy surrounding social enterprises in the UK.
Catch22 is a social business, a not for profit business with a social mission which operates in the United Kingdom (England and Wales). Catch22 can trace its roots back 229 years, to the formation of The Philanthropic Society in 1788. Catch22 designs and delivers services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities.