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Useful links for Social Enterprise:
Social Enterprise East of England (SEEE):
a network of social enterprises, advice and support organisations, local authorities and other groups with interests in Social Enterprise – particularly in its promotion and development. It covers six counties: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
The Eastern Region has some outstanding examples of social enterprise and innovative approaches to providing the sector with advice, support and funding. The SEEE network has been established to promote, celebrate and share these successes and assist in implementing best practice throughout the Region.
http://www.socialenterprise-east.org.uk/
Social Enterprise Coalition:
SEC is the UK's national body for social enterprise. As the voice of the sector, SEC provides a national platform for showcasing the benefits of social enterprise. We share best practice and influence policy in order to create an enabling environment for social enterprise. SEC is committed to representing the totality of social enterprise in all its forms, working to ensure social enterprises can learn from and support each other.
http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/
CharityLink:
To help voluntary organisations develop commercial opportunities. Charity Link helps by:
Identifying opportunities to address funding or organisational issues
Creating a plan to develop the opportunities
Providing practical support to make them happen.
http://www.charitylink.co.uk/
Social Enterprise Training & Support Consortium (setas)
Provides an information resource to help you find the most appropriate social enterprise training, support or relevant publication. This website provides links training and support providers, and specialist publications specifically about social enterprise. It will help you compare training courses, support services or publications on your chosen subject or available in your geographic area. It will provide feedback from past users of those products, which will help you make an informed decision on whether the product is the right one for you. The site will also provide information on news and events in the social enterprise world and can provide you with e-mail updates if you wish.
Most importantly it is constantly updated, so you can be assured that you looking at accurate and up to date information.
http://www.setas.co.uk/
The Social Enterprise People
The Social Enterprise People exists to develop social and co-operative enterprises in Cambridgeshire and the surrounding areas. If you are starting or developing any of the following, we can offer support and represent your interests:
> Trading activities in a voluntary or community organisation
> A business that exists primarily for a social or environmental purpose, reinvesting surpluses to that end (a ‘social enterprise’)
> An organisation that is jointly owned by its members or is otherwise democratically controlled
> A business that employs people with learning difficulties or physical or mental disabilities
> Activities, policy etc related to social or co-operative enterprise
The Social Enterprise People is a networking group for Cambridge Co-operative Development Agency (CCDA) which has been supporting local co-operatives since 1982
http://www.thesocialenterprisepeople.co.uk/
SEDI (Social Enterprise Development Initiative).
We are a not-for-profit social enterprise located in Cheetham, North Manchester.
SEDI is a specialist BME social enterprise organisation that helps to lobby and support the creation of other social enterprises and carries out community-based research in diverse communities throughout the UK.
www.sedi.org.uk
The Financing of Social Enterprises: a special report by The Bank of England
Please download the following PDF:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/financeforsmallfirms/financing_social_enterprise_report.pdf#searc h=%22Social%20Enterprise%20uk%20england%22
Ruralnet|UK
Past and present projects of Ruralnet|UK and RNUK
http://ruralnet.typepad.com/projects/england/index.html
Defra:
Defra's core purpose is to improve the current and future quality of life.
For the first time one department has brought together the interests of farmers and the countryside; the environment and the rural economy; the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink.
We do all this by integrating environmental, social and economic objectives - putting sustainable development into practice every day, and by championing sustainable development as the way forward for Government.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/index.asp
CEEDR
The Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research:
CEEDR is a university research centre, located in Middlesex University Business School. CEEDR specialises in research relating to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and regional economic development, focusing on research with an applied policy emphasis. With a team of two professors and ten researchers, CEEDR activities include self-initiated research projects, contract research and research-based consultancy for a variety of clients in the UK and abroad, and postgraduate teaching and supervision. Current research themes include:
- SME development and policies
- Innovation in SMEs and innovation policy
- Ethnic minority enterprises
- SME development in rural areas
- Entrepreneurship and SME development in transition and developing economies
- Regional regeneration and governance, focusing particularly on London
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/ceedr/index.htm
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