Day 1 Workshop - Peter Holbrook
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There are approximately 80,000 social enterprises in the UK that contribute more than £24 billion to the economy and employ over 1 million people. Social enterprises operate in many sectors, from health and social care to renewable energy and housing. They are started through various means such as entrepreneurship, charities expanding services, or communities coming together to provide local services. Examples of social enterprises are given around joint working, co-commissioning, and how they respond to issues like the gig economy and employment insecurity.
Day 1 Workshop - Peter Holbrook
- 1. Peter Holbrook CBE Chief Executive Social Enterprise UK Director Social Enterprise World Forum
- 6. Social Enterprise in the UK • c. 80,000 social enterprises in the UK (7% of all businesses) • Contributing c.>£24 billion to the UK economy and employing over 1 million people. • Operate in almost every sector: from health and social care, to renewable energy, housing, manufacturing, transport, retail and finance. • There are many routes to social enterprise: • entrepreneur-led organisations • charities becoming more business-orientated • ‘spinning out’ of parts of the public sector • communities coming together to lead local services, run facilities etc • Cooperatives emerging in response to the ‘gig’ economy, employment insecurity
- 8. Examples of joint working co-commissioning and social enterprise
- 32. “Any business that does not internalise social and environmental challenges is talking to itself and will, eventually, be rejected by its customers and its staff” Paul Polman, CEO Unilever “Inequality has become a defining issue of our time…philanthropy alone cannot be our response. Global sustainability and the nature of the economy will be shaped by entrepreneurship and the terms on which we create and do business with each other.” Prof Muhammed Yunus, Nobel Laureate
- 34. Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 Establishing ‘social value’ principles in public procurement UK = £300bn public procurement
- 46. “I want these difficult economic times to achieve more than just paying down the deficit and encouraging growth. I want them to lead to a socially responsible and genuinely popular capitalism. One in which the power of the market and the obligations of responsibility come together; we are the party of social enterprise” David Cameron
- 48. Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, is United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. He chairs the Advisory Board of the Catalyst Foundation.