Your starting point for social enterprise support in Richmond upon Thames
Running your own social enterprise is a way to benefit from the freedom and satisfaction of being an independent business person, while addressing social and environmental issues.
On these pages you'll find information to help you to:
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develop your ideas about starting a social enterprise.
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take your ideas further, with sources of support and training to help you start up.
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develop your existing enterprise so that it can grow and prosper.
We hope that you’ll take the opportunity to join this social enterprise community by registering with us. This will allow us to send you useful news and information occasionally and to invite you to events. We also hope that you will want to share your experience and success stories with us so that we can share it here! If you would like to contribute, just contact us.
What makes an enterprise a ‘social’ enterprise?
A social enterprise is a business, but one where profit is made primarily to support a social or environmental objective. Much of the profit that is made is reinvested in these aims – although social entrepreneurs do still earn a living from their business! There is no legal definition of a social enterprise as they can take many forms. Read more about social enterprise here.
