The contribution of social enterprise

Meeting social need

Using business success to meet social or environmental ends

Providing opportunity and skills

for marginalised groups - and
in some cases a potential
route off benefits

Increasing enterprise

Attracting new entrepreneurs who want to make a difference to society or the environment

Encouraging more women, under-represented groups and young people to start their own enterprises

Improving public services

Shaping service design
Pioneering new approaches and winning contracts to deliver services

Encouraging ethical markets

Responding to new markets
driven by increasing ethical
consumerism

Raising the bar by adopting
pioneering ethical practices,
such as fair trade