why social enterprise in the uk
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Social Enterprise in the UK
Jess Tyrrell, Feb 2011
Motivation - why run a social enterprise? It’s difficult.
Social foundations in the UK.
Economic Foundations.
Promises.
Alternative arguments.
✤ growth is finite
✤ resources are finite
✤ speculative wealth and debt is finite
“Progress is a myth and when you live inside a myth it looks like a fact - John
Gray.”
It’s been a bad week for...
Social enterprise in different forms.
Commercial
Soci
al
One Water/Global Ethics
Zopa - peer lending platform
People’s Supermarket
InnocentsBlack Farmer
Social Impact Bonds
Pants to Poverty
Community Development
Asset Based Community Trusts
Public Sector Commissioning
Cause Related Marketing
Livity
Innocent Drinks.
Global Ethics - One Difference.
£5m raised£1m lives saved
Livity - Social Comunications.
People’s Supermarket.
Links
✤ http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/2010/06/28/rsa-animate-crisis-capitalism/
✤ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/29/john-gray-philosophy-politics-globalisation
✤ http://www.slideshare.net/NickJE/radicalreinvention
✤ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPoLDiTO3zc
✤ http://www.innocentfoundation.org/
✤ http://www.onedifference.org/
✤ http://livity.co.uk/
✤ http://www.thepeoplessupermarket.org/
✤ http://www.schoolforstartups.co.uk/
✤ http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/