What is social enterprise?

Social enterprise offers a new way to do business

that is animated by a social purpose.

How do we make the world a better place?

Volunteer Change the law

Invent a great

product

Give me one example of

each

How do we make the world a better place?

VolunteerChange the

law

Invent a great

product

Civil Society Public Sector

Private Sector

Social Enterprise sits in the middle

Source: Leadbeater, C. (1997), The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur, London: Demos, p. 10

Seanor, P., Bull, M. & Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2007) "Contradictions in Social Enterprise: Do they draw in straight lines or circles?"paper to 30th ISBE Conference, Glasgow, 7-9th November, Drawings 8 and 10

Three aspects

• Social Innovation– ideas to change the way society works

• Social Entrepreneurship– the processes of getting the idea into a ‘business’

format• Social Enterprise

– the venture that emerges from the innovation

How do we know its a social enterprise?

• Lots of different company formats• Lots of government spending cuts• Lots more contracts from governments to

deliver social & health services• How do we know the world has got better?• Who is involved in making decisions?

The University Social Entrepreneurship Award

• Understanding social entrepreneurship• Understanding me• Understanding society, communities and

social problems• Solving problems through innovation• Venture planning• Starting and sustaining the venture• Promoting the venture

Balloon Kenya

• invested in 13 new businesses this time ranging from fish farming to egg selling to wooden crates to babycare.

• - 16 Enterprise Fellows brought to Kenya from 7 different nationalities ranging from Israel to India to Germany

• 352 Kenya youth mentored• 816 hours of training delivered• 20 businesses funded• £4860 invested

“how does my degree subject ‘change the world’?”