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/