Social enterprises reinvest the majority of the profits they make back into the business to deliver more of their social or environmental purpose. social enterprises are a way of doing business and not a particular legal structure.
Knowledge Centre
Video : What is social value?
Social value describes the wider social, economic and environmental benefits that derive from an organisation’s work or from the commissioning of services or the purchasing of goods.
Video : What’s the difference between social value and social impact?
Social value describes the wider social, economic, and environmental benefits that derive from an organisation’s work or from the commissioning of services or the purchasing of goods.
Video : What is social procurement?
Social procurement – which is sometimes called social purchasing – is a way for businesses, public sector bodies and Housing Associations to buy more wisely. It helps to generate social value beyond the goods or services they require.
Guardian: Communities
- Piccadilly Gardens: can Manchester's 'unsafe' city centre be transformed?
- EU's funding for UK's poorest areas 'must be matched after Brexit'
- Renting conditions making millions sick or suffer stress or anxiety
- 'My Parkdale is gone': how gentrification reached the one place that seemed immune
