Voluntary, Charity & Community Groups
We provide services to Voluntary, Charity and Community Organisations and receive the same services as all our customers but you will receive
them at a discounted rate.
Social Enterprise information can be found from many sources, but we have listed below the UK Governments information about Social Enterprise, this
information comes from the UK Cabinet Office Website.
Social Enterprises are defined as “businesses with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the
business or community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners”.
This means organisations that trade goods and services and use the majority of their profits for social and environmental goals. You might be
familiar with such examples as The Big Issue and Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant, but there are at least 60,000 social enterprises like these
across the UK.
Social enterprises tackle some of our most entrenched social and environmental challenges in an innovative way. They can come in many shapes and sizes,
from community-owned village shops to large development trusts, and in many legal forms, including community interest companies, industrial and provident
societies and companies limited by guarantee, among others.
Whatever form they take, social enterprises prove that social and environmental responsibility can be combined with financial success. They challenge
and help government to improve the way we design and deliver public services. They bring innovative ideas and a ‘can-do’ attitude and can work in
some of the community groups that government finds it hardest to reach. At the same time they raise standards for ethical business and corporate social
responsibility.
The Government's work to promote the role of social enterprise in the economy and society was mapped out in its 2006 strategy, the Social enterprise
action plan: scaling new heights.
Visit the UK Cabinet Office Website.