Social enterprise
Social enterprise is for anyone who wants to start a business and considers social and environmental impact as core objectives.
If you are a new or exsisting business and feel that you may be a social enterprise, West London PULSE may be able to help you.
Whereas the private sector is held accountable for increasing economic return for shareholders and the voluntary sector is charged with increasing public benefit, social enterprise is a business model that aims to deliver across a range of economic, social and environmental outputs.
Social enterprise has great potential in the following areas:
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helping you set up a trading arm for your business
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increasing first-time employment opportunities for those on the margins of the labour market (long term unemployed and those with physical, learning, or mental health disabilities)
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helping you to generate business opportunities through local government organisations
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assisting entrepreneurs to bring social and environmentally produced goods and services to niché markets and solutions where there is market failure
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achieving corporate social responsibility goals for the private sector
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developing a social objective to your business to give back to the community
For more information please contact:
West
London PULSE (promoting the understanding of local social
enterprise)
West London PULSE aims to promote and support social
entrepreneurship within the West London boroughs of Brent, Ealing,
Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon and
Hounslow.
Social Enterprise London (SEL) is a local government organisation providing up-to-the-minute information to professionals working in the social enterprise world.
SEL provide free open surgery advice sessions aimed at start-up
social enterprises and hosts many events,