How Social Enterprise Might Hold the Key?

Melanie Mills

Chief Executive SEWM CIC

CIC

Charity, Voluntary & Community

Sector

Social Enterprise

Commercial, Private Sector

Not for Profit For more than Profit For Profit

Young People are the Social Entrepreneurs of the Future?

THE GOOD NEWS!

• Approx 15% of post graduates looking to start a business want to start a social enterprise

• 7% of SE leadership have Directors aged 16-24

• 5,000 CIC’s and growing

• 14% of all SEs are start ups 3X proportion of traditional business

• Civil society vision and Social Value requirement opening up opportunity for social enterprise

THE KEY

• Our young people need every advantage in the current labour market

• The employment landscape is changing – all options need to be considered

– Start your own

– Be employed

– CSR

– Social Value

• Information is power!

UNLOCKING OPPORTUNITIES

• Fuel your own interest & knowledge

• Consider the options for your customers, stakeholders,for your organisation & for yourself

• Help us to help you cultivate the next generation of Social Entrepreneurs

• Working together to ‘Do Business Differently’

Making Social Enterprise a Choice for the Future

Making Social Enterprise a Choice for the Future

The Business Network for Social Enterprise & Social

Valuewww.socialenterprisewm.org.uk