The winners of the UK Social Enterprise Awards were announced at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s Southbank on 26 November. The evening saw the venue transformed into a Festival of Hope celebrating the makers, the community builders, the job creators, the radicals, and the dreamers who make up the social enterprise movement. Across 15 categories the … Continued
On Thursday 20 November leading social enterprise business GLL hosted an event in Woolwich, South East London to celebrate Social Enterprise Day 2025. Entitled ‘How to Start and Grow a Resilient Business’ a highlight of the day was an expert panel discussion, with panellists drawn from the Social Enterprise sector including: Peter Bundey, GLL CEO, … Continued
Dan Gregory, Associate Director at Social Enterprise UK, reflects upon a trip to Plymouth – a hotspot of social enterprise activity with social enterprises running everything from generating energy and delivering dental care to running cherished local assets and driving innovation, including an idea for a new social enterprise fishfinger. Plymouth was the UK’s first … Continued
Jubilee Hall Trust Ltd has confirmed that GLL, a not-for-profit Social Enterprise and the UK’s largest leisure trust, will take over Jubilee Hall Gym in Covent Garden and in doing so will secure the long-term future of this much-loved community space. The leisure operator, which operates under the “Better” brand, has committed to investing £250k … Continued
The Government’s 10 Year Plan for the NHS may have just recently been made public, but social enterprises have long been delivering the kind of services it aspires to. Read this new report to be inspired by the ways social enterprises are already transforming the NHS and the way services are created and delivered. From … Continued
Politics can sometimes seem like a soap opera, but in a week of government reshuffles and resignations, the crucial work of evidencing the impact of social enterprises and building political support for them continued within the corridors of power. On Monday 9 September, the Social, Cooperative and Community Economy All-Party Parliamentary Group and its Chair … Continued
Our Head of Public Affairs, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, looks into what the latest government reshuffle might mean for social enterprises. Since the Labour government came into office, we have begun to see formal and informal realignments within our democracy and politics. Unquestionably, this will have an impact on the direction of our sector, its future and … Continued
Social Enterprise UK’s Director of Research and Policy, Emily Darko, looks at the government’s consultation on procurement and social value, what its proposed changes may mean for social enterprises and how they can be improved, arguing that key to everything is a change in culture. At Social Enterprise UK, we’ve long pushed for a public … Continued